Top companies will cut their procurement teams by a quarter within the next two years, according to a survey by management consultancy AT Kearney.
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The Treasury has raised the stakes for its procurement card scheme by trebling the target spend for 2000.
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Mobile telecommunications company Orange has embarked on a major five-year e-procurement plan to save 13 per cent on its UK division’s spend.
The two major airline online marketplaces could come under pressure to merge after e-procurement heads from nine major carriers agreed on the need for a single software standard for Internet trading.
Britain’s ailing shipbuilding sector is to be the subject of a major supply chain mapping-out exercise aimed at making the industry more competitive globally.
Supermarket chain Safeway has been slammed for being “heavy handed” with suppliers after it announced a controversial product availability scheme last month.
Business travel buyers who fail to renegotiate their supplier and travel agent relationships within the next year may suffer financially, an industry body has claimed, writes Elizabeth Bellamy.