Recently added articles from Supply Management:
Public sector is open to business
Feb 19, 2009; ... "All the bankers who ruined the City are now moving to the Treasury. And the chances are they will probably ruin that as well." So went the quote and some of the sentiment in a radio programme last week about the migration of private sector workers to the public sector. This (slightly ...
BA overhauls £5bn spend
Feb 19, 2009; ... [Transport] British Airways (BA) has launched a review of its £5 billion annual spend following the appointment of a new head of procurement. Tim Richardson, previously general manager of procurement strategy and operations at the company, took over as acting buying chief earlier ...
EC: innovation needed
Feb 19, 2009; ... [Public sector] Many public sector buyers are not aware of the benefit of precommercial procurement and are not acting as "intelligent customers", according to the European Parliament. Pre-commercial procurement allows purchasers to buy the development of innovative products, and ...
BBC's 'bullish' strategy on travel
Feb 19, 2009; ... [Business travel] Buyers have to be "bullish" to win senior managers round to new procurement strategies, according to the Incoming chairman of the Institute of Travel Management (ITM). Jamie Hindhaugh, who is also head of sourcing for production resources, logistics and ...
Network Rail on track to meet costs target
Feb 19, 2009; ... [Transport] Network Rail is set to cut costs by 21 per cent over the next five years, following a demand from the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR). The regulator said Network Rail can spend about £28.5 billion from April 2009 to March 2014, £2.6 billion less than It had asked ...