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NEWS

Procurement Leaders Awards: Kimberley-Clark CPO leads awards winners

Last night at the 2013 Procurement Leaders awards, Cynthia Dautrich, purchasing chief at consumer goods giant Kimberley-Clark was bestowed with the highly acclaimed title of Procurement Leader.

Costs force Ford from Australia

Ford plans to close its Australian manufacturing facilities by 2016, citing increasing costs as a key factor behind the move.

Rick Hughes: ‘We need adaptable, agile and aligned supply networks’

Speaking on the second day of the World Procurement Congress, the CPO of Procter & Gamble told delegates that resilience was a factor in all key ...

Best Buy slashes supply chain costs

Electronics retailer Best Buy has continued to cut back its costs as weak sales place increasing amounts of pressure on the business.

EVENTS

Fresh perspective

Procurement in Asia needs to change how the business sees it and how it sees itself, roundtable attendees discover.

The proof is in the P&L

It’s easy to talk about SRM, more difficult to prove its value. Executives at a London roundtable looked deeper.

Embedding into the business ecosystem

The future will see more of a tactical-strategic split, executives in Chicago heard.

CASE STUDIES & INTERVIEWS

Tesco saves money with big data

Harnessing data and using analytics to inform suppliers and make business decisions has rewarded a little investment with big results.

GSK develops a global category structure

Procurement at the pharma company had to adopt a global approach to category management

THOUGHT LEADERS

Next level relationship management

Author: Ryan Nied
Diageo’s Ryan Nied looks at the future of relationship management - xRM: the evolution of SRM.

Managing change during restructuring

Author: Steve Hrubala
Carlyle Group CPO Steve Hrubala examines how procurement needs to behave in the event of M&A and restructuring.

Advantage through managing disruption

Author: Nick Wildgoose
Businesses have grown in ways that leave them vulnerable to myriad risks. Zurich’s Nick Wildgoose describes how a mature approach can create a ...

Improving synergy through social capital

Author: Norbert Romeijn
While it may be an old theory, social capital can help you achieve purchasing synergies in your organisation.

The power of supplier development

Author: John Walker
John Walker, CPO of Buhler Group and Francois Roblin, founder and managing director of Sourcing eXPerts, look at the concept of supplier development ...

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WEBINARS

Getting on the management board's agenda

Danijel Banek, Executive Director, Central Purchasing, Atlantic Grupa & Dr. Heinz Schäeffer, CPO NORCEE (Northern & Central Eastern Europe), AXA - 15 May 2013 - 12:30pm BST | 13:30pm CET

Best practice in e-procurement and e-sourcing

Frederic Khalil, VP, Head of Source-to-Pay, Guardian Life Insurance, David Bush, CEO, Iasta, James McCarthy, Sr. Director of U.S. Procurement Operations, Equifax - May 16 2013 - 1:30pm EDT | 10:30am PDT

Best practice in SRM

Uldis Sipols, VP, global product supply purchases, Procter & Gamble company, Christopher Patnaude, Vice President, Procurement and Strategic Sourcing, BMO Harris Bankcorp & Greg Marks, CEO, Hubwoo - 10 April 2pm EDT. 7pm BST

Developing a skills framework

Chris Drews, CPO, Microsoft & Frederic Khalil, VP Source-to-Pay, Guardian - 13 March 2013 3pm EST

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