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Peter’s Compendium – A Veritable ‘Matrix’ of Procurement Stories
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How Confident Are You That Forced Labour Isn’t Happening In Your Supply Chain?
On one level, there is more awareness of human rights issues in the supply chain than ever before. We have the Modern Slavery Act of […]
Improving D&I in Procurement & Supply – Breaking the Male-Dominated Mould
Diversity and inclusion is moving up the CPO agenda; testimony to that was made at SAP Ariba Live recently and in our discussion with Paul […]
Pearls of CPO Wisdom from Global Business Intelligence Event – Part 2
Our chief marketing officer, Carina Khul, continues her roundup of ‘little gems’ learnt from the Global Business Intelligence CPO event in New York. Part 1 […]
Cyber Risk – Actions and Mitigation Strategies
We have several new briefing papers available and today we’re delighted to bring you a paper written by Peter Smith and sponsored by riskmethods, who provide […]
Supply Chain Guide to Brexit: Digitisation Paves a Way through Uncertainty
We like to discover new relevant companies and bring them to your attention. Slync is a fairly young digital supply chain platform, founded in 2017. […]
Procurement Lessons From the Lambton Arms
We’ve featured my cousin Kathryn’s pub (run with her husband Harry) in Sherburn Village a couple of times previously, with pictures in our “Down the […]
Four Quick Ways For Small Businesses To Power Up Their Procurement
We welcome this advisory post from Eleanor Matthews, Co-Founder at WorkFutures. The rise of the procurement team’s profile in industry has been well documented, with teams […]
Supply Base Rationalisation – Five Potential Negatives
There’s a great article on the Spend Matters US site from Nick Heinzmann of the US Spend Matters team, who is quickly developing into a […]
The Financial Cost of Fraud and Anti-Procurement Fraud Principles – Part 3
In Part 1 we talked about the six key principles for reducing the risk of procurement fraud in organisations. Yesterday in Part 2 we looked at […]
The Financial Cost of Fraud and Anti-Procurement Fraud Principles – Part 2
In Part 1 we talked about the six key principles for reducing the risk of procurement fraud in organisations. Let’s go into more detail on […]
The Financial Cost of Fraud and Anti-Procurement Fraud Principles
The latest research from national audit, tax and advisory firm Crowe UK, together with the University of Portsmouth’s Centre for Counter Fraud Studies (CCFS), has […]