Procurement

Procurement should focus more on the needs of its business partners, and could look at car service Uber for tips on becoming more customer-centric. According to Chris Sawchuk, principal and global procurement advisory practice leader at The Hackett Group, told…

Purchasers at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust (NUHT) attend surgical procedures to improve their clinical knowledge, a conference was told. Tony Stanyard, head of procurement at the NHS trust, said it was important that buyers had credibility with clinicians to influence…

A buyer at TV broadcaster Sky has outlined how a supplier relationship management (SRM) programme has been designed to “build a one-stop shop for business risk and quality data”. Stephen Berwick, an analyst in the procurement operations team at Sky…

As of Monday 2nd March, I became Market Dojo’s first official employee and the very next day, my knowledge and skills were put to the test as I awoke to my alarm at 4am for my journey to eWorld! Market…

Yesterday’s eWorld conference and exhibition demonstrated both the strengths and weaknesses of its format. Here are our immediate observations following a busy day getting lifts up and down the QEII centre, Westminster. 1.  As a free-to-practitioners event, eWorld continues to…

The key to increasing the influence of procurement in an organisation is to identify key stakeholders and then actively engage with them, a conference was told. Christopher Barrat, director of Read the full article on Supply Management, by Will Green

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In an attempt to reduce the levels of cyber security risk in its supply chain, the UK government has developed the Cyber Essentials scheme. This set of controls provides organisations with protection from the most prevalent forms of online threat…

Outsourcers Xchanging Procurement and Optimum Procurement Group have signed new deals to provide purchasing services to a logistics company and a facilities management provider respectively. Xchanging Procurement has won a three-and-a-half year contract with Brambles to strengthen its procurement capabilities…

 Xchanging’s procurement division has had its most successful year ever by focusing on tail spend. Chirag Shah, executive director of Xchanging Procurement, said the firm had combined its e-auction technology product MarketMaker4 (MM4), acquired in 2013, with pricing and supplier…