Mars Bar Shortages – Is This The End Of Civilisation?
Never mind Ukraine, the energy and cost of living crisis and the national political paralysis in the UK – a real crisis has hit the headlines. The shops are running […]
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Never mind Ukraine, the energy and cost of living crisis and the national political paralysis in the UK – a real crisis has hit the headlines. The shops are running […]
Partners’ escalating earnings suggests that more procurement involvement in professional services markets has not led to better value.
How should you react if a supplier lets you down? If it is a minor issue, a quality failure perhaps, or a lightly late delivery, then you discuss the issue, […]
Top German Broadcaster resigns after accusations of Bad Buying (and more!)
The UK National Health Service is one of the largest organisations in the world in terms of number of employees and its running cost. Whilst it is a single organisation […]
Supply Management reported this week that retailer Marks and Spencer (M&S) is buying Gist, a logistics business. Gist apparently do much of the food logistics work for M&S, but clearly […]
Having spent several years researching, writing and now promoting the Bad Buying book, I thought I’d heard pretty much everything in terms of public sector organisations finding ways of wasting […]
Professional services firms are aksing for big fee increases. How can you resist their demands?
Making sure your tender documents are effective is a more important skill that many realise – get it wrong and you can look pretty stupid!
We wrote about the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) Ajax armoured vehicle fiasco almost a year ago. Now, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), made up of politicians from all parties, […]