Rapid installation of a new e-procurement system has enabled IT buyers at Southampton City Council to bring nearly all purchasing online ahead of e-government targets.
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The NHS is to co-ordinate the procurement of hospital waste management nationally in a bid to keep costs down.
Struggling telecomunications equipment maker Lucent Technologies is restructuring its supply chain in a bid to reverse its fortunes.
Nearly 400 electricity generators have been accredited as renewable sources qualifying for exemption under the climate change levy.
Few companies in the UK have grasped the opportunities of e-commerce, even though most recognise its benefits, according to new research.
UK companies have been providing far too little purchasing and supply management training, a recruitment consultant has claimed.
This report provides a structure for analysing the supply chain and creating strategies, enabling organisations to make improvements in their supply chain processes that will eventually “lead to significant bottom-line benefits”. However, many of the techniques and tools that are mentioned, which can be customised to meet specific initiatives, are already known and used by buyers.
E-envoy Alex Allan has admitted that the government’s target to buy 90 per cent of its low-value, routine goods electronically by April 2001 might not be met.
Procurement budgets at industrial gases company BOC have had a reprieve, after the target for a cost-cutting drive in its purchasing budget was cut from around £60 million over two years to savings of £50 million over three.
Craig Lardner, BOC’s group manager of supply management, called the initial figure “ambitious” but welcomes the longer time frame to make savings.
Craig Lardner, BOC’s group manager of supply management, called the initial figure “ambitious” but welcomes the longer time frame to make savings.