The Supply Management jobsite

Shout about it

October 30, 2009

Getting to grips with this complex profession hasn’t been easy – the new acronyms, terms and names to get to know – but I’ve made plenty of interesting discoveries along the way.

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A right load of twits

October 29, 2009

If you do a quick search for “procurement” on Twitter, you’ll find a number of tweets which will not be music to the ears of most purchasing professionals.

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What PepsiCo plans to do with its potatoes

October 28, 2009

I want to tell you about crisps. Well, it a potato project to be precise.

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The high price of social networking websites

October 27, 2009

A report claims that UK businesses lose £1.4 billion every year because staff slack off on social networking sites.

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Up, up and away for chief exec pay

October 26, 2009

Today salary research group Income Data Services has released details that chief executives of FTSE-100 companies have seen their salaries grow by 7.9 per cent in the last year, and if you look at the FTSE-250, this increases to 8.5 per cent.

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Handbags at dawn

October 23, 2009

If a supplier offered you designer handbag as an incentive to winning business, how would you react?

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How to beat the postal strike

October 22, 2009

So no post today, as you are probably aware.

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How do you evaluate bids and tenders?

October 21, 2009

Some buyers believe using a structured approach to evaluating bids is a “waste of time”

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Former top US buyer bang to rights

October 20, 2009

Banged up for a year, his professional reputation damaged irrevocably, it was all once so rosy for David Safavian.

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Are you in the market for BCSS?

October 19, 2009

A letter in today’s Daily Telegraph business section suggests one reason for the popularity of low-cost country sourcing (LCCS) I have never heard before

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