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15-16 January 2003 - London; 23-24 June 2003 - Birmingham
24 October 2002 - The Royal College of Physicians, London; 29 January 2003 - Manchester; 15 May 2003 - London; 2 October 2003 - Edinburgh
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19-20 June 2002
Sheraton Hotel, Brussels
Sheraton Hotel, Brussels
UK firms have got better at paying their suppliers’ bills on time, according to a survey by Grant Thornton and Business Strategies, with average payment times falling from 52 days to 46. The average for the EU as a whole is 55 days; Greece is the worst offender - suppliers there wait an average of 87 days - while the Finns generally pay bills in 26 days.
British Aerospace Defence Systems Group is undertaking a pilot for the integration of its procurement practices with Marconi, the company with which BAe recently merged. The integration pilot pulls together previous acquisitions into the group that represents the non-aircraft part of BAe and incorporates Land and Sea Systems, Royal Ordnance and other shareholdings.
Some readers (and certainly a number of purchasing gurus worldwide) have fond recollections of the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. While they may not be fully paid-up members of the Woodstock generation, they may have been exposed to social experimentation within the encounter sessions, experiential laboratories and T groups of that era.
Pepsi Cola has picked up the overall 1998 Excellence in Supply Chain Management Award, run by Logistics Europe and KPMG Consulting, in association with Exel Logistics.