Monthly Archives: September 2011

CIPS vice president David Smith provided the music, while comedian Miranda Hart provided the laughs.

Walmart is to unveil plans to spend $5bn annually on women-owned suppliers through 2016 in the United States – double its current spend of $2.5bn – and to double sourcing from international suppliers run by women.

Coca-Cola Enterprises, the third largest bottler of Coca-Cola in the world, has stepped up its efforts to implement spend visibility and analysis strategy through a partnership with Rosslyn Analytics.

Issues with poor data quality are hampering efforts made by UK procurement professionals to optimise procurement and spend management functions, a newly published report has claimed.

Tata Steel has reported that it has helped Caterpillar Steel improve local supply chains and, as a result, the manufacturer has cut manufacturing lead times for off-road construction equipment to five weeks.

The London Probation Trust has greatly increased its SME supply base.

A ‘red, amber or green’ ranking for suppliers helps the property and FM firm identify performance issues and take action quickly.

Car manufacturers, construction companies and space agencies face disruption.

Waste generated by the consumer giant is now recycled or reused thanks to supplier Veolia.

Supply chain management may be well-established as a key business process – in some industries at least – but, traditionally, there has been little appetite for outsourcing it. Still, there could be reasons why that’s about to change.