Author: Aneirin Sion Owen
Publisher: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 0 7506 5834 7
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26-27 October 2004
London
UK builders blamed delays between finishing current projects and starting new work for July’s slower growth in the construction industry, according to the latest purchasing managers’ index (PMI).
Small and medium-sized companies that want visibility and control of their supply chains are the target market for the latest application from UK-based company E-Warehouse.
Margaret Tan
Singapore University Press, £29.95
4/5
Pictorial representation using ratios.
Exercising your mind on index numbers.
Government departments could ditch proprietary software produced by giants such as Microsoft in favour of open source software (OSS), according to the Office of Government Commerce.
The National Audit Office (NAO) has slammed procurement practices at the Ministry of Defence (MoD), whose costs on 20 major equipment projects slipped a further £1.7 billion to reach £6 billion over budget.
Applying lean manufacturing and Six Sigma principles in non-production purchasing has produced major benefits at Xerox.