Purchasers back Blair on fuel stance
3 April 2012
Top purchasing and supply management professionals are backing Tony Blair’s tough stance against the fuel protestors, according to a new poll.
The survey, carried out by CIPS among its senior members across the public and private sectors, also found that just-in-time inventory management is now being questioned.
One respondent, a senior purchasing director in the NHS, reported a 500 per cent increase in stocks held to cope with another possible crisis. A group purchasing manager in the food sector...