Retail's Best Kept Secret

A CFO's guide to achieving sustainable profit improvement through better management of GNFR costs.

A major opportunity lays relatively unknown and under-exploited for many UK retailers - that is, sustainable profit improvement through better management of GNFR costs. I'd be interested to hear how retailers in this group currently manage this element of business spend? Read More »

Outsourcing Procurement to Bring Commercial Flair to Universal Music

Universal Music teamed up with buyingTeam to present the rationale for outsourcing procurement and what the experience was like from Universal Music's perspective. Read More »

Current Perceptions of the Indirect Procurement Function

Based on an in-depth research study (involving 120 CFOs and CPOs from across Europe, UK and North America), conducted in association with NelsonHall, this paper investigates the perceptions, attitudes and desired outcomes of Indirect Procurement within business today. Read More »

Leveraging an Innovative Purchasing Operation at LaFarge

Paul Harridine, VP Purchasing for Europe at LaFarge discusses how an innovative Purchasing operation can deliver value, more than just savings, back to the end customers of the business. Read More »

The Strategic Development of Procurement: A View from Grant Thornton

Oliver Colling, Head of Financial Management and Effectiveness at Grant Thornton discusses Procurement's journey, following the footsteps of Finance and HR, towards strategic business importance. Read More »

Getting back to Procurement Basics at William Hill

Karen White, Group Procurement Manager at William Hill talks about the need for procurement to get the fundamental basics right and communicate the business benefits better. Read More »

Enhancing and Redefining the Role of Indirect Procurement

NelsonHall and buyingTeam recently ran a study involving 120 CPOs and CFOs from FTSE 100 organisations across Europe and the US to better understand procurement’s changing role within business today and tomorrow.

Focusing on indirect (or non-core / GNFR) procurement, the in-depth study identified a number of challenges and opportunities for global businesses in realising maximum benefits from indirect expenditure. Read More »

buyingTeam is co-hosting the 2012 CIPS Yorkshire event of the year...
Talent Management, Supplier Diversity and what the future holds for Indirect Procurement.

The aim of this event is to provide members with an insight into how Procurement is becoming more and more key in the survival and growth of organisations across all industry sectors on a global basis, and how we need to ensure that appropriate skills are brought into Procurement as a career route. This event will also be an excellent networking opportunity for all Members with the opportunity to meet these highly experienced practitioners.

The keynote speaker is David Smith, who has just commenced his appointment as CIPS President, and who will present on his theme for the year of making procurement and supply management a career of choice. Alongside him will be Shirley Cooper, ex-CIPS President and current CIPS Board Member, who formerly led as Director at services and solutions provider Computacenter, and who will speak on her new European role with WE Connect International focusing on Supplier Diversity. Representing buyingTeam will be Guy Strafford, Chief Client Officer and CIPS Board Member, who will focus on what the future holds for indirect procurement.... Read More »