Procurement

… that’s how we heard it described by one delegate as we were (snooping) accidentally listening. 'I’m sure I could be doing other things, he said, but I can’t think what they might be.' Which we took to be that…

The arrival of daffodils, snow drops and extreme weather, courtesy of storm Freya, can only mean one thing – yes, the return of spring eWorld! And if spring’s all about new life and new beginnings, last week’s eworld hit the…

Melbourne, VIC Australia – February 25th, 2019 – Sourceithq Pty Ltd, a global provider of cloud-based procurement software announced today the launch of their new RFQ (request for quote) software at this year’s eWorld Procurement & Supply Conference in London…

The latest edition of eWorld yesterday at the QEII Centre in Westminster was very successful and lived up to the view that, in our time running Spend Matters Europe, this is the most improved procurement event in the calendar –…

Any political party serious about governing needs to put social value “front and centre”, the policy’s architect has said. Chris White, the former Conservative MP whose private member's bill became the Public Services (Social Value) Act, said the law’s impact…

Procurement needs to be involved in innovation from the inception of products, one of Lego’s top buyers has said. By the time a new product has come to market, it is too late for procurement to make an impact on…

User experience and engagement was fundamental to introducing a procurement-to-pay (P2P) system at Northumbria University, its commercial director has said. Introducing a new P2P system was one of the first things Mark Gill, commercial director at the university, was asked…

Contract planning and a “spirit of cooperation” are the two major planks to successful public sector outsourcing, the head of IRIS Consulting has said. Speaking at the 

Putting the needs the company’s engineers first is at the heart of procurement at McLaren, its top buyer has said. Jamie Foster, group procurement director at McLaren Group, said personal relationships with stakeholders was key to his role in supporting…

It was bitterly cold, but the procurement ice warriors turned out in force yesterday at the QEII Centre Westminster for the first big international procurement event of the year - eWorld Procurement and Supply. (Good job it wasn't on today,…