Monthly Archives: September 2011

Fortune 500 companies are wasting billions of dollars on overspends associated with parcel shipping, a new report claims.

Formula One team Lotus has revealed details of a new programme to upgrade its purchasing and stock management systems.

The Metropolitan Police aims to pass on the responsibility of buying paper to the Cabinet Office’s Efficiency and Reform Group (ERG), according to its director of procurement.

US companies are more likely to reimburse business travellers for fitness centre and entertainment fees.

Have any lessons been learnt from the global economic crisis? Not when it comes to risk management, according to a new study by the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors, which paints a worrying picture and suggests that many of the mistakes committ…

Experts have warned that companies with significant raw material exposure, particularly manufacturers and those in the process industries, will fail to grow in the short term if they do not master raw material volatility.

PepsiCo has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China to promote “sustainable agriculture projects”.

“I have been lied to and deceived by people who, instead of serving the people of South Africa, were intent on lining their own pockets,” says public works minister Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde.

Kath Harmeston, Royal Mail’s procurement director, will be discussing growth and success at CIPS Conference 2011.

Two high profile chief procurement officers have left their positions in the past week, as Microsoft, Diageo both reshuffled their packs.