Purchasing is not yet widely perceived as a premier league profession; certainly not when compared to, say, marketing, law, investment banking or entrepreneurship. But continued efforts by leading companies to exploit the power of effective purchasing have given...
I agree with one of the earlier comments that a stable platform would be a massive help for manufacturers in the UK and the wider EU. But, as we all probably know, “we live in interesting times.” It’s unlikely that UK or EU manufacturers will get the sort of stability...
Procurement capability in most organizations is hampered because purchasing decisions are beset by organizational challenges and “soft” issues. In this extract from Sigi Osagie’s new book Procurement Mojo, he discusses why Procurement still has no de facto seat in the...
A recent article in an engineering publication outlined some of the contemporary developments in car manufacturing, most notably that Western car manufacturers today really do very little “manufacturing”. Instead they have transitioned to become what might best be...
“Major multinational companies are increasingly outsourcing or offshoring their manufacturing operations and business processes to Africa, and these companies are benefiting from ensuing significant reductions in their direct costs; in some cases by as much as 50...
