At last, the world is waking up to the fact that business-to-business e-commerce will be far more lucrative than business-to-consumer operations.
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James Essinger and Charles Gay
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Buying departments should seek specialist advice now that the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIP) is coming into force in a scheduled 18-month roll-out.
Construction has begun on a new £60 million BMW plant in Goodwood, which is to make around 1,000 Rolls-Royce cars a year from January 2003. V12 engines and aluminium frame and body parts will be imported from Germany, and the manufacturer will recruit over 300 new staff to build and fit the cars.
Yorkshire Electricity’s distribution system has joined Achilles Marketplace, the online procurement exchange for utilities companies. Achilles estimates Powergen saved between 10 and 15 per cent on its £3.5 million of transactions by using the site, which began operating in the UK in June 2000.
Edited by William Woods
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Cristina Stuart Piatkus, £12.99 With e-commerce in general and e-procurement in particular raising the profile of purchasing, buyers need to be able to make their case clearly, convincingly and professionally.