Asahi Centralises Procurement – Will It Work?
Japanese brewer Asahi is setting up a new global procurement operation in Singapore, according to the Food Navigator Asia website. The target is to save $100 million a year from […]
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Japanese brewer Asahi is setting up a new global procurement operation in Singapore, according to the Food Navigator Asia website. The target is to save $100 million a year from […]
Without fanfare or comment, in the middle of the holiday season, the UK government recently published the data for spend with SMEs (small and medium enterprises) for 2021/22. This covers […]
A few weeks ago, the UK National Audit Ofice issued a report titled “Competition in public procurement – lessons learned”. Unlike most of that organisation’s reports, it wasn’t looking at […]
I’ve decided that I’m going to win the 100 metres sprint at next year’s Paris Olympics. I believe the benefits for the UK economy will be huge and I will […]
The US Government Department of Justice recently issued a news release. “Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation has agreed to pay the United States $377,453,150 to resolve allegations that it […]
As it is the holiday season, here is a short extract from my Bad Buying book rather than a fresh article – taken from the chapter on negotiation. Nothing Else […]
Programmes to support minority owned businesses, smaller firms, social enterprises and the like via public sector procurement have become increasingly popular over recent years in many countries. The Social Value […]
The CIPS 2022 report and accounts are available now – and it was a difficult year for the Institute.
Why are prices so high in many countries, including the UK? Global forces and events are part of it, but there is increasing evidence that firms providing goods and services […]
There was an unhappy reminder of the pandemic and the PPE Bad Buying saga recently when several hundred pallets of PPE (mainly aprons, it seems) were discovered apparently dumped in […]