A new government education purchasing body aims to make significant purchasing improvements and achieve big efficiency savings, its head has told SM.
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15 June
The Brewery, London
Drinks firm Diageo is to cut its purchasing team as part of a company-wide reorganisation.
A procurement apprenticeship scheme aimed at the public sector in Wales began this month.
The supply chain of the future will be customer-focused, not supplier-focused, and supply chain managers will be orchestrators, Cranfield University's Professor Martin Christopher told delegates.
Dell, Procter & Gamble (P&G) and IBM have the best supply chains in the world, according to AMR Research.
17 March 2005
Copthorne Tara Hotel, London
One in five procurement professionals has encountered fraud, bribery or corruption in the past year, according to the results of an SM online poll.
26 April 2005
Rubens Hotel, London
School meal buyers have welcomed Tony Blair’s £280 million pledge to improve lunch-time nutrition.