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Entertaining clients can be fun, but deciding how and where is tricky. Here are a few ways to find the right activity, from a business lunch to something more unusual…
Procurement at telecoms company Lucent aims to help the company’s recovery by taking over the management of its suppliers’ products. Colleen Harris explains
Tax column
AT provides a bluffer’s guide to the new and intricate Stamp Duty Land Tax, which swings into operation at the beginning of December this year.
The chief executive of Surrey County Council tells Mark Whitehead how a purchasing background prepared him for the top job
Thanks to SARS, wars, Chinese entrepreneurialism and post-World Cup depression, white-collar workers in South Korea are experiencing tough times.
Under retention of title clause, purchasers only take ownership of goods when they have been paid for. But there are caveats to this principle, as Susan Singleton explains
Students should be preparing to sit next month’s graduate diploma papers. In the first of two articles, Steve Shaljean-Tilley explains how to ease the pressure before you reach the exam room
Analytics can help businesses to overcome supply chain complexity and maximise competitive advantage, says Olivier Vairon
From helping to fight a war to beating the heat wave and being reprimanded for using unethical timber, purchasers have had their hands full. David Arminas looks back at the main stories from SM in 2003