Nearly 400 electricity generators have been accredited as renewable sources qualifying for exemption under the climate change levy.
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Few companies in the UK have grasped the opportunities of e-commerce, even though most recognise its benefits, according to new research.
UK companies have been providing far too little purchasing and supply management training, a recruitment consultant has claimed.
This report provides a structure for analysing the supply chain and creating strategies, enabling organisations to make improvements in their supply chain processes that will eventually “lead to significant bottom-line benefits”. However, many of the techniques and tools that are mentioned, which can be customised to meet specific initiatives, are already known and used by buyers.
E-envoy Alex Allan has admitted that the government’s target to buy 90 per cent of its low-value, routine goods electronically by April 2001 might not be met.
Procurement budgets at industrial gases company BOC have had a reprieve, after the target for a cost-cutting drive in its purchasing budget was cut from around £60 million over two years to savings of £50 million over three.
Craig Lardner, BOC’s group manager of supply management, called the initial figure “ambitious” but welcomes the longer time frame to make savings.
Craig Lardner, BOC’s group manager of supply management, called the initial figure “ambitious” but welcomes the longer time frame to make savings.
Glass manufacturer Pilkington has outsourced its stores management and will have access to a bespoke website stores catalogue by the end of July.
The catalogue, produced by supply integrators Integrated Engineering Stores Associates (IESA), is designed specifically for the needs of Pilkington’s sites in St Helens and is not a general tools manufacturer’s catalogue.
The catalogue, produced by supply integrators Integrated Engineering Stores Associates (IESA), is designed specifically for the needs of Pilkington’s sites in St Helens and is not a general tools manufacturer’s catalogue.
This is an excellent book that I have no hesitation recommending to junior buyers with limited negotiating experience; managers who are keen to construct their own in-house negotiating training programme, but who cannot afford to hire Paul Steele et al; amateur buyers and, say, accountants in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), who carry out the company’s purchasing on the 19th hole at the g
The Environment Agency (EA) plans to shave 20 per cent from its annual £130 million construction budget by slashing supplier numbers.
While the EA aims to develop long-term and risk-sharing “partnerships” with its suppliers in flood defence construction - currently comprising 40 consultants and up to 80 contractors - it wants to reduce the number it deals with directly.
While the EA aims to develop long-term and risk-sharing “partnerships” with its suppliers in flood defence construction - currently comprising 40 consultants and up to 80 contractors - it wants to reduce the number it deals with directly.