UK retailers with worldwide trading interests must improve the accuracy of the data they exchange with suppliers for e-commerce to succeed, an industry group has claimed.
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The government has launched a best- practice procurement guide as part of its move towards helping public-sector organisations, including the new Office of Government Commerce (OGC), to improve their purchasing.
Practitioners are to be given a louder voice in purchasing’s international body for research and education.
National Savings has won approval from the National Audit Office for its radical purchasing scheme, with outsourcing specialists Siemens Business Services (SBS), a year after it started.
The Welsh Development Agency (WDA) is helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to get wired up for e-commerce, writes David Arminas.
The North Western Universities’ Purchasing Consortium (NWUPC) is aiming to give NVQ purchasing training to more than 300 non-professional purchasing staff in 30 institutions.
Businesses are concentrating too much on e-commerce and neglecting business strategy, say industry experts.
Separation of the supply and distribution businesses of electricity companies is vital to prevent dominant suppliers distorting the markets for both electricity and gas, claims industry regulator Offer.
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