The Enterprise Bill is set to make a big difference to UK purchasers by stiffening competition laws and creating offences of price-fixing and bid rigging. Susan Singleton explains
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As president of Urbanfetch, the web-based retailer that promises to deliver orders within one hour, Andrew Tsai is used to working at high speed. Mark Whitehead caught up with him at the company’s new operation in London
Business professionals able to take a strategic view of non-production spend are a hot commodity in the recruitment market. SM talks to some of the key players in the industry and looks at how the civil service and NatWest gain and retain staff
Last month, smart procurement theory turned into practice as the new Ministry of Defence organisations for procurement and logistics were launched. Peter Varley examines how widespread the changes will be
In the second of two articles on the tactics and operations paper, Neil Fuller looks at the key issues that students would be expected to explain in answering a question on negotiation
Richard Lamming and Paul Cousins warn that the poorer option is most likely in customer/supplier relationships unless both parties take equal risks and work to remove any element of blame
Sam Tulip describes how Caerphilly Council solved the problem of a system that was neither Y2K-compliant nor up to its new demands as a unitary authority in one fell swoop
This was the year when government procurement tightened up, purchasers began to question whether e-procurement really was a panacea, and almost saw the national supply chain grind to a halt. David Arminas looks at the UK stories that made headlines in SM
Suppliers of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have been slow to make the transition to life in the e-world. In the first of two articles, Malcolm Wheatley reports on how they are making a comeback and why supply chain management is a key battleg
In the search for the most efficient operations in its breweries, one of Europe’s largest drinks companies brought a new meaning to the phrase ‘tanked up’. David Spacey explains