Laing to slash suppliers further_2
19 July 2012
Construction giant Laing is aiming to reduce its number of core suppliers from 23 to 12 by the end of the year, as part of the final stage of a major supply chain revamp.
Laing has gradually reduced the company’s 496 mechanical and electrical suppliers to 23, which supply 80 per cent of the firm’s needs.
“We want to reduce our supplier database to known specialists,” said Keith Airey, Laing’s head of procurement, who was hired in September to restructure the division. “We need to move away from the adversarial approach to...