The corporate procurement stage is teeming with new players, roles and settings. Perhaps most important, companies are seeking a tighter alignment between procurement and corporate decision-making. Small wonder it’s become a different world for CPOs.
Ain’t technology great? Even when snow and ice keep us imprisoned in our homes, we can carry on working thanks to broadband and teleconferencing.
How stressed do you feel this morning? Were you delayed on the train? Did you get cut up at a roundabout? Did the bin bag break as you took it outside?
The procurement team at British Airways (BA) must be throwing their hands up in despair.
There’s a certain degree of schadenfreude in hearing about a British entrepreneur’s lamentable attempts to get a venture making scooters in China off the ground.
I couldn’t imagine spending 18 months underground, but clearly Natalie Killassy’s made of sterner stuff than I.
Buyers have a lot on their plates. Getting costs down forms part of a delicate web of other priorities, including sustainability, SRM and risk – to name but a few. But purchasers can now add selling to this list.
We spend much of our time discussing the flow of money out of the UK and into the BRIC nations through low-cost sourcing. However, it appears some of that money might be heading back to Britain thanks to an influx of tourists from those countries.
The start of 2010 has seen some good news for the UK manufacturing industry. Activity has bolted to the highest point in over two years, and now a further shot in the arm has come in Scotland, where agreement has been given for a major expansion of offshore wind farms.
A study by YouGov of 3,600 adults in the UK found one-third of men and one in five women are drinking on the job, at lunch, with clients or at work events.
