27-28 September 2005
Strand Palace Hotel, London
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The Salvation Army will tomorrow merge its purchasing function with its property and facilities departments as it aims to cut 10 per cent from their joint £50 million budget.
Activity in the UK construction sector accelerated despite the first fall in housebuilding activity for more than six years, according to the latest purchasing managers' index (PMI).
Sportswear giant Nike has taken the unusual step of publishing the names and addresses of its 700 first-tier global suppliers.
UK builders beat another fall in housing activity as the construction sector enjoyed a slight increase in business, according to May’s purchasing managers' index (PMI) report.
A small rise in new orders helped to slow the fall in UK manufacturing activity in June, according to the latest purchasing managers' index (PMI) report.
20 September 2005
London
RFID licence fees may be scrapped after the UK communications regulator Ofcom launched a consultation on making the technology available free of charge to supply chain users.
Global steel prices will be lower in 2006 and shortages are unlikely, a US economist has predicted.
The Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO) is changing the way it equips its frontline forces following UK trials of priming equipment packs (PEPs).