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 […]
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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, […]
The new UK public procurement legislation has been laid out in a Bill now which is being discussed and revised in the House of Lords. Leaving aside political comments, most […]
Quite a few stories of procurement and supply chain failure we hear (and quite a few of those included in my Bad Buying book) have at least an element of […]
Most people see government buying as something rather dull and bureaucratic, but get it wrong and it can cost the taxpayer a fortune. So everyone should be interested in the […]
A few weeks ago now, CIPS (the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply) announced the result of the consultation process on proposed governance changes. It proved to be a vindication […]
Two fraud cases in a row here … but a new (for me) angle today. Procurement related fraud and corruption has interested me for many years, long before I started […]