- 30
- JUN
- 2010
Clock ticking, but not for Swatch
Author: Maggie Slowik - Categories: Procurement Intelligence
In the current economic climate, positive news for luxury goods companies is gold-dust – and thanks to market intelligence it looks as though one Swiss watch-maker is bucking the downward trend. more
- 29
- JUN
- 2010
Facilities management builds a new future
Author: Jonathan Webb - Categories: Indirect Spend
The recent advent of World Facilities Management Day shows its crucial role in business success. Although strong facilities management provision itself won't allow companies to clean up in the market, efficiency in back-office operations frees up resources for competitive operations. more
- 24
- JUN
- 2010
Fake Viagra found in Australian supply chain
Author: Jonathan Webb - Categories: Risk
Pharmacists in two Australian states have found counterfeits of Viagra in the wholesale drug market. Not only does it raise doubts about the local market, but it highlights vulnerabilities in the global pharmaceutical supply chain. more
- 22
- JUN
- 2010
Procurement central to global free trade
Author: Jonathan Webb - Categories: Economy & Current Affairs
Over the last year, national governments have announced new free trade agreements between both emerging and developed economies. Procurement liberalisation lies at the heart of these bilateral and multilateral deals. more
- 21
- JUN
- 2010
Intelligence-led approach gains General approval
Author: Maggie Slowik - Categories: Economy & Current Affairs
As a former colleague once memorably informed me, 'General Hindsight never lost a war'. He was a salesman, and used the phrase – which he had no doubt gleaned from another wise man – to explain how he had let a deal slip through his fingers because the right people weren't engaged at the right time. more
- 17
- JUN
- 2010
Is there a global logistics recovery?
Author: Jonathan Webb - Categories: Economy & Current Affairs
The fate of the wider economy is closely linked to the prosperity of the logistics market. The sector has produced many reports and figures, and yet it is difficult to disentangle these to determine global economic significance. more
- 16
- JUN
- 2010
Social enterprise as another means to socially responsible sourcing
Author: Jonathan Webb - Categories: Talent, CSR & Green
As I was rushing to a seminar, juggling free ice cream in hand, my progress through the throng of procurement professions was arrested by an unexpected question: "how much do you think this bee hive cost to make?" This struck an unlikely chord at the recent Public Procurement Conference in London. more
- 15
- JUN
- 2010
Red alert – Kyrgyzstan crisis fall-out set to spread
Author: Michelle Perkins - Categories: Risk
A week ago Kyrgyzstan was just another former Soviet Republic – now it's a country teetering dangerously close to civil war as mob rule in the southern cities of Osh and Jalabad threaten to deliver a humanitarian and diplomatic crisis on a par with the one witnessed in Georgia just two short years ago. more
