Our experience of working with companies to help reduce their carbon emissions has shown the majority of an organisation’s footprint is frequently outside its direct control.
There are a number of steps supply chain managers should take to understand and realise the opportunities for emission reduction within your supply chain. (more…)
Listening to John Collington speak at a conference yesterday, I really got a sense (for the first time) that the highest levels in government are deadly serious about making huge procurement savings. (more…)
In the early 1970s a bunch of Essex wide boys got together and formed a rock band called Dr Feelgood. Their sound was very retro, even in the 1970s. A lesser-known fact was that the name was derived from street slang for a corrupt doctor who would sell prescription drugs for recreational purposes. I don’t know if this term is still in use – I am a grumpy middle- aged bloke these days and don’t get out much.
I have been spending quite a lot of my summer working with my colleague Cathy Berry and my friends at CIRIA on a guide for sustainable procurement in construction. Many partners have worked with us to develop this guide and I am really excited about it. I hope you enjoy it when it is published later this year. (more…)
They’re not exactly making a mint, but a pound shop in York has found it cheaper to import packs of Polos from Indonesia than to buy them from the Nestlé factory next door.
As reported in York’s The Press, Poundworld’s maverick sourcing policy has had local councillors chomping in disapproval.
“This typifies the needless international transport of food,” tutted Andy D’Agorne, leader of the Green Party group of York Council.
Poundworld retails multipacks of 8 rolls of Polos for £1, which works out at 0.7p per mint. A typical shop in York is selling the sweets in tubes of 20 for 49p – more than three times the price at 2.45p per mint. (more…)
I have just started a new job. I’ve been lucky enough to work for a number of companies and I love the excitement that surrounds a new role. Just as by the end of their first day salespeople know how to complete their expenses, finance will have counted how many light bulbs could be removed to cut costs and IT gurus will have already bypassed the firewall, there are things procurement can do to become effective quickly.
The sourcing process and tools are broadly universal. You’ll have to learn the specifics relating to your new company – maybe there’s a different e-sourcing tool – but the core will be familiar. The issues of effective stakeholder engagement, SRM and the creation of a sustainable supply chain will be hot topics, although the level of maturity of the new organisation might differ. You may even deal with the same categories and the same suppliers. (more…)
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