HEeP, an e-procurement marketplace for the higher education sector, is to offer Impaq's purchase order management system to encourage more university suppliers to trade electronically.
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9 September 2004
Melia White House Hotel, London
John Drew, Blair McCallum and Stefan Roggenhofer
Palgrave Macmillan, £25
5/5
Purchasers are being given conflicting advice about how to handle escalating oil prices.
Purchasing professionals in both the public and private sector need to raise their game, according to CIPS president David Rich-Jones.
Companies could save more than 50 per cent on the cost of their request for proposal (RFP) processes for hotels and meetings with an online template launched by the Institute of Travel Management (ITM).
Pharmaceutical firms are using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and barcode technologies to help uncover fraudulent and counterfeit medicines.
Most large companies now see purchasing and supply management as a “strategic weapon” whose value stretches beyond cost reduction, according to a soon-to-be-published benchmarking study.
Advanced item-search capabilities, templates and catalogues are part of the new Internet Purchasing Ordering System (iPOS) from SunSystems.
Within local government procurement, Dr Andrew Larner has been appointed director of the South East Centre of Excellence and Julian Morley has been appointed director of the South West Centre of Excellence.