Outsourcing company clothing requirements is one way of saving management time and money and meeting employee needs more effectively. Sam Tulip explains
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Yellow Pages’ first head of procurement does not shy away from a challenge. Fiona Skinner tells David Arminas how she wants to totally revamp the company’s purchasing strategy
Supermarkets and their suppliers should welcome the forthcoming guidelines on relationships between them, argues Kevin Hawkins
A pioneering Internet project is revolutionising laboratory equipment buying for London’s universities. But as Alexis Nolan finds out, such a radical change needs close co-operationbetween the parties
With economic slowdown raising the spectre of job cuts, there has never been a better time to take up continuing professional development, says Paul Morris
In the fourth article of our series, David Birch explains how to approve suppliers and make use of improvement programmes
Risk can never be eliminated from business, but it can be identified and controlled. In the last of a six-part series on contracting, ADR’s Peter Hunt explains how
When negotiating a contract, there is a fine line between tough bargaining and actionable ‘economic duress’. Alan Ma explains how courts decided the difference in two recent cases
A crackdown on anti-competitive practices and a more flexible view of public procurement rules were just two of the big legal issues in 2001, as Susan Singleton explains
In the third of a six-part series on purchasing goods and services, Sam Tulip looks at buying insurance and how to keep premiums down