Merry Christmas and a happy new year
From all the team at Supply Management
A list of influential people in business ethics lists several procurement professionals, but one of them became famous for the wrong reasons.
I was interested to see that the latest issue of Marketing Week has a cover feature on procurement.
Buyers will have awoken this morning to find a proverbial lump of coal in their stocking with the implementation of the new Remedies Directive.
SM must be rare among the British media in that we have never run a story about the comings and goings of Katie Price.
Procurement professionals are often accused of moaning their fellow colleagues don’t understand the “value” they provide to the business.
Apparently, the TLA (three-letter acronym) is causing havoc.
I was surprised when Greenpeace lauded Unilever’s decision to stop buying palm oil from an Indonesian supplier.
The recession has led an increasing number of companies to “streamline” or “right-size” their staff – or even suffer some “non-voluntary turnover”.
The some-time musical theme of this blog continues today with a plug for a good cause.