Here it Comes – How to Avoid Inflation-Driven Bad Buying!
Have you seen the price of compost this spring? I reckon it has close to doubled – three large bags from Longacres garden centre last year cost £10 (for 180 […]
Entries by Peter Smith
PPE Procurement in Court, NAO Report and Radical Transparency (my thoughts)
The UK National Audit Office has published a report titled “Initial learning from the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic”. It draws on the various reports NAO has conducted over […]
The Post Office and Fujitsu Horizon Case Shows Bad Buying at Its Worst
Many of the Bad Buying stories featured here or in my book have an element of levity to them. Some are decidedly humorous even. But sometimes there is a case […]
Bad Buying – Six Months On
It is now more than six months since “Bad Buying — How Organisations Waste Billions Through Failures, Frauds, and F*ck-ups” hit the (largely virtual) shops. Many thanks to everyone who […]
Corruption and Incompetence – It Gets Everywhere!
The Conservative government has been criticised for some of the procurement actions of the last year or so, with allegations of mismanagement and cronyism. But the Labour Party has not […]
Supply Chain Finance Fraud Isn’t New, Neither is Dodgy Accounting
(But a Government procurement leader joining a supplier while still working as a civil servant is!) In my last article about fraud related to supply chain finance (which came to […]
Greensill / Gupta – Might this Be a Whole New Type of “Invoice Fraud”?
The Greensill / Gupta financial affair might have highlighted a new type of invoice fraud, linked to supply chain finance provision.
Retroactive Inducements – Greensill Capital, David Cameron and a Threat to Democracy & Capitalism?
We wrote about the collapse of Greensill Capital here, and more information has emerged on a daily basis over the last couple of weeks. It seems increasingly clear that the talk […]
PPE Scandals hit Italian & German Business and Politics – Will the UK Follow?
There have been interesting developments in terms of procurement of PPE in several European countries. Last month, the Times reported that magistrates in Italy had ordered the seizure of property […]
Greensill Capital – When Good Supply Chain Finance Turns Bad
Readers of the Financial Times (or the Sydney Morning Herald) will be well up to speed with the events at Greensill Capital, a leading provider of supply chain finance funding […]