Q: I have been charged with the design and execution of a cost-reduction programme across a number of spend areas about which I know little or nothing. Results are required speedily, but there is no budget for external support. How should I proceed?
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UK emergency services' separate procurement strategies are hindering the information sharing needed after last September's terrorist attacks on the US, the government's spending watchdog has warned.
Q: Our procurement director has been charged by the board with halving our vendor base over the coming three years, and has set the buyers, including myself, the same objective. I’m not sure if this is would be a sensible approach in my particular area.
European steel buyers could benefit from lower prices than their US counterparts following President George Bush’s controversial introduction of an import levy.
The Ministry of Defence has saved 20 per cent on a major multi-satellite system through the department’s largest private finance initiative (PFI) deal yet.
4 July 2002
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Birmingham
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Birmingham
The Ministry of Defence is streamlining its procurement and logistics operations with the launch this month of the Defence Procurement Agency (DPA) and the tri-service Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO).
The logistics industry has given a cautious welcome to the government’s strategy paper on sustainable distribution, published earlier this month.
Strategic Development: methods and models is a collection of edited papers by academics on topics related to the development of organisation and business strategy. The book is divided into six parts.
From his first paragraph, I empathised. Oates, a business journalist, opens: “After editing the international house magazine… for four years, I received the unwelcome news that it planned to contract out the responsibility for producing the magazine to an outside agency.