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 […]
Entries by Peter Smith
Professional Services – Procurement Has Failed
Partners’ escalating earnings suggests that more procurement involvement in professional services markets has not led to better value.
Top Acts Pull Out of Reading and Leeds Festivals – Bad Supplier Behaviour
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 Bad Buying (and more…)
Top German Broadcaster resigns after accusations of Bad Buying (and more!)
NHS Procurement Platform – Was it Bought Properly?
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 […]
M&S Buys Logistics Supplier – Why?
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 […]
Thurrock Council Comes Up with a New Type of Bad Buying
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 […]
“Give Us More Money” – Handling Professional Services Fee Demands
Professional services firms are aksing for big fee increases. How can you resist their demands?
Good Tender Documents – More Important Than You Might Think
Making sure your tender documents are effective is a more important skill that many realise – get it wrong and you can look pretty stupid!
UK Politicians Not Impressed with Army Ajax Programme
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, […]