Texas Instruments has launched a new radio frequency identification (RFID) tag reader designed to keep track of the technology as industry standards change.
Small manufacturers have seen orders rise for the first time in over three years, with confidence climbing at the fastest rate since April 2002, according to the latest survey by the employers' organisation, the CBI.
Expenditure on the Government Procurement Card (GPC) doubled last year and efficiency savings of £50 million were made, according to its annual report.
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.
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.