- 22
- JUL
- 2009
Procurement takes its 'queue' in fast lane to success
Author: Mark Perera - Categories: Procurement Strategy
Procurement intelligence is about far more than bottom-line savings (although that’s obviously one of its most welcome by-products) it's also capable of despatching competitors “to the back of the queue”. As part of our series of interviews with Neil Deverill, former CPO and current chairman of the Procurement Leaders Network Advisory Board, he told the Procurement Intelligence Unit, that competitive advantage was one of the fundamental drivers behind the expansion of intelligence gathering in the world of procurement. more
- 20
- JUL
- 2009
Saturday Essay: Let's get more forward thinking in finance
Author: Mark Perera - Categories: Working Capital
In an article published in The Grocer, Mark Perera of the PIU talked about the way in which some forward-thinking buying organisations, including large retailers such as Sainsbury's, are looking to Supply Chain Finance as a strategy for improving both theirs and their suppliers' working capital. more
- 16
- JUL
- 2009
Knowledge is Power - Procurement Intelligence
Author: Mark Perera - Categories: Procurement Intelligence
As anyone in today's global business world will tell you knowledge is power - and no- one knows this better than the modern-day CPO. So why, in the majority of cases, isn't procurement taking advantage of the wealth of information available to it? more
