The public sector is not benefiting from online auctions and Whitehall could save millions of pounds a year if it adopted them, according to the chief executive of TradingPartners.
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Automotive suppliers say Ford, Volkswagen and General Motors are the companies that press them hardest to cut costs, according to research.
Improved economic conditions, new business clients and new products were among the factors that helped boost activity in the UK services sector to a three month high in October, according to the latest purchasing manager’s index (PMI) report.
Marketing must be held more accountable for spend, according to Sir Martin Sorrell, chairman of media agency WPP Group.
Our recruitment agency is now three years old and doing well, but the directors are conscious that if one of us became seriously ill or died, this would have a devastating effect on the business and the future of everyone working in it. We have been advis
27-28 September 2005
Rubens Hotel, London
Nearly 90 per cent of companies plan to use the Freedom of Information Act to gain details of failed contract bids, according to an online poll of SM readers.
Q: Our sales director has asked my purchasing department to get involved with the more significant tenders leaving our business. Is this something we should do and what can we bring to the process?
A defence group wants Europe to open national military deals to foreign competitors under a new code of conduct.