Jeffrey Pinto and Pekka Rouhiainen
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The shortage of skilled purchasing and logistics staff means that more than four out of 10 business are expecting recruitment difficulties in these functions, according to a new survey.
Cross-functional training and an emphasis on strategic thinking has helped US firm Bethlehem Steel Corporation (BSC) to cut its annual procurement spend by £109 million.
Photography giant Kodak has changed water suppliers for its 35-acre Harrow site, making an “inset appointment” with water firm Hartlepool - the first for a large user in the south-east and only the seventh nationwide.
Belgian brewer Interbrew is planning “substantial” procurement job losses and a reduction in suppliers following the takeover of British-based Bass Brewers and Whitbread Beer Company, according to an Interbrew UK spokesman.
The London Borough of Camden is to form of a strategic procurement unit in an effort to tackle a series of problems including adversarial approaches to supplier relations and confusing contracts.
Coffee-producing countries are being urged to produce fewer beans of higher quality to raise prices and counter a glut of coffee on commodity markets.
The Wellcome Trust has set up its own International Air Transport Association (Iata)-accredited travel agency in an effort to cut out travel-agent costs.
The search for a new head of procurement at the BBC has been put on hold while director-general Greg Dyke carries out a management shake-up.
The long-awaited draft reforms of the European public procurement rules will make private finance initiative (PFI) projects more complex, according to a legal expert.