Tuned into FM
13 September 2012
Workplace Management’s procurement director reveals how the right wavelength can produce results, even with the tight margins of facilities management. Alexis Nolan reports
Derek White doesn’t like waste - and in the tight- margin world of facilities management you can understand why. The director of procurement at Workplace Management, the FM subsidiary of property group Chesterton, has been busy this year streamlining the supplier base, pushing more business towards preferred suppliers, cutting his procurement team and finding ways...