The Bad Buying Blog
Your resource for everything good, bad, and befuddling about how organizations buy stuff.
Your resource for everything good, bad, and befuddling about how organizations buy stuff.
Last year, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) hit the headlines when shortages threatened the lives of health workers and patients in the early months of the pandemic. That demonstrated how a […]
I still don’t know if there will be a “Bad Buying Returns” book or perhaps an updated edition of the first volume, but the stories keep on coming in terms […]
Returning to the Greensill supply chain finance (SCF) scandal, the excellent BBC Panorama programme earlier this month dug further into the affair, including the role of ex-Prime Minster David Cameron. […]
Sadly, my mother passed away last month, aged 93. A broken hip, covid and pneumonia all hastened the end, but “frailty due to old age” was probably a fair enough […]
I met an old friend – and consummate procurement professional – this week for the first time in several years. He is working in a very important and sensitive area […]