New Year’s Eve is posing a host of problems for organisers and suppliers. Vanessa Pawsey meets some of the people who are making sure that revellers see in the new millennium with a bang
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Amid all the hype, the benefits and dangers of e-procurement are not always clear. SM invited a panel of experts to shed some light and to debate what it means for the profession
The art of saying ‘no’, like the art of delegation, can be a hard thing to learn. But, says Jacqui Bishop, it is essential if you are to manage your working life effectively
Purchasing card providers are having to change their tactics but, handled correctly, electronic commerce could provide an opportunity rather than a threat. Alexis Nolan reports
Testing products according to how they will be used in practice can help purchasers to make smarter decisions, says Chris Evans
Wal-Mart’s arrival is sending shock waves through the UK supermarket sector. Mark Whitehead looks at how its trademark cost-cutting zeal is affecting suppliers, and its main rivals
Corruption is becoming more widespread. And as procurement staff gain more strategic positions within companies, they must help to tackle the problem. In the first of a three-part series, Peter Sammons reports on the fight against the hidden costs of frau
The dotcom bubble may have burst, but new AOLR chairman Bill Shipton believes the online sector can have a healthy future. And he is determined his trade association will be setting the standard
Alison Parker, alloys and metals buyer at steel producer Avesta Sheffield, knows the importance of keeping suppliers on side. This year’s winner of CIPS’s Hart medal tells Helen Riley how she helps to manage the firm’s lean supply chain
Life isn’t all sunny money in California’s Silicon Valley. There, business means business-to-business and IT firms are hard at work developing the latest software products to meet purchasers’ needs, says Marcia MacLeod