Goodrich Corporation has appointed a new indirect buyer to reduce its supply base for indirect supplies by about 20 per cent.
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Expenditure on the Government Procurement Card (GPC) doubled last year and efficiency savings of £50 million were made, according to its annual report.
Suppliers have a better chance of being paid on time if they threaten to charge interest on overdue payments, a new report claims.
The head of the Guild of Business Travel Agents (GBTA) has called for better relations between corporate travel managers and their outsourced travel management companies.
Craig Edwards has joined retail optician Specsavers as purchasing manager.
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.
9 September 2004
Melia White House Hotel, London
John Drew, Blair McCallum and Stefan Roggenhofer
Palgrave Macmillan, £25
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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.