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Procurement professionals are heading “towards redundancy” as their role is becoming less important in formulating marketing strategies, a senior marketing consultant has suggested.

Following the news that new environmental standards have been met, China is allowing more companies to export rare earth metals.

Mobile phone users will, in 2016, on average consume 6.5 times as much data as in 2011 according to market experts.

German scientists have unveiled a newly developed sensor that they claim will allow corporates to quickly and easily measure their power consumption.

General Motors (GM), is expected to confirm on Thursday that its struggling Vauxhall Ellsemere Port in the north of England will produce the new Astra model but the supply chain in the region remains weak.

The US General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded a contract to IBM to develop and install advanced smart building technology in 50 of the federal government’s highest energy-consuming buildings.

Global sales of supply chain management (SCM) software totalled $7.7bn in 2011, a 12.3% increase from 2010, according to new market estimates.

The finance director at a potato supplier has been convicted of bribing a Sainsbury’s buyer and overcharging the UK supermarket by millions of pounds.

UK finance chiefs are predicting weak growth in the economy and have identified several cost cutting opportunities as key over the next year.

DHL Global Forwarding will build a new €27m logistics centre for air freight at Brussels Airport.