With no bibliography, no diagrams and no detailed examples from real life, this is certainly not the average management text book. It is really a personnel or human resource management ‘how to’ book.
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Bass Brewers withdrew plans last week to charge its suppliers £1,000 each to appear on a list of approved traders following hundreds of complaints.
A high-level business mission will be heading off to Japan at the end of this month to study how the change in its economic fortunes have affected supply relationships.
The Department of Trade and Industry-led initiative will include procurement directors and academia, and is being co-ordinated by the DTI and Confederation of British Industry joint initiative, Partnership Sourcing.
The Department of Trade and Industry-led initiative will include procurement directors and academia, and is being co-ordinated by the DTI and Confederation of British Industry joint initiative, Partnership Sourcing.
A decision by the European Parliament next week could help save hundreds of jobs at British Steel’s Rotherham plant and stop more than £100 million of extra costs escalating in the automotive component supply chain.
Councils in the south-east are set to save £5.5 million on their energy bills over the next two years, according to the Central Buying Consortium (CBC).
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IT purchasing managers’ salaries have risen by more than 18 per cent in the past year, according to a regular six-monthly survey by Purcon Consultants.
Beleaguered high-street retailer Marks & Spencer is to cut the lead times for getting goods to the shopfloor after it reported worse than expected pre-Christmas trading figures.
9-10 October 2002
Hotel Inter-Continental, London
Hotel Inter-Continental, London