Britain is western Europe’s most enthusiastic outsourcer, according to the 14th annual UPS Europe Business Monitor.
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Travel is fast becoming a commodity, with too much focus on price and not enough on total value, according to Jenny Prescott, sales director at British Travel International.
A female purchaser is again poised to receive compensation of up to £500,000 for sex discrimination after a tribunal last week dismissed an appeal from her former employer.
Q: We are an electronics subcontractor with a range of electronics stock for the assembly of printed circuit boards. As the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and Restriction of Use of Hazardous Substances (ROHS) directives are being impleme
The CIPS Supply Management Awards 2005 are officially launched today.
26 May 2005
London Marriott Hotel
Travel managers don’t give enough detail about their hotel needs when they ask potential suppliers to enter an e-auction, according to Paul Wardlow, senior global director of corporate sales at Starwood Hotels.
Q: I work for a rapidly expanding company, but our purchasing department is going backwards. We are now being treated as an order-processing function. The firm is sales orientated with little understanding among sales staff of how the supply chain works.
The NHS plans to pay suppliers on its £6 billion Connecting for Health IT programme early in a controversial move aimed to avert cash-flow problems.
Purchasers at senior and middle management levels receive higher average basic salaries than colleagues in comparable business functions, according to new research.