Analysis: Services spending an antidote to continued economic gloom
Procurement Leaders
16 February 2010
Guy Strafford, buyingTeam’s Client Director, comments on the current economic prognosis for recovery in a recent Procurement Leaders article. The article highlights the importance of concentrating on long term supplier management and the advantages of outsourcing this function. To read a full article please click here.
35 under 35
Supply Management
03 December 2009
buyingTeam's Engagement Manager, Martin Lee, is featured as the young rising star in procurement, in the latest special article of Supply Management. To read more please click here.
Managed services can reduce printing and paper budgets
CIO
05 November 2009
Managed print service providers help businesses understand their needs and transform document workflows. That leaves the CIO with more time to focus on core areas of their business. To read a full article with a contribution from our CIO Anson Chuang please click here.
Indirect spend gets low priority
Supply Management
30 October 2009
A survey carried out by SM and procurement outsourcing firm buyingTeam found indirect categoris are a low priority in 49 per cent of businesses. Around half of organisations also lack the resource or strategy to source them effectively. To read more please click here.
Better buying 'will increase profits by £53 billion'
Supply Management
30 October 2009
Following on from the buyingTeam research earlier this mont there is yet another great exposure in the Supply Management’s latest edition. To read the full article please click here.
To read the buyingTeam report on Procurement and Profitability click here.
Paper Cuts
Supply Management
30 October 2009
In the latest edition of Supply Management, James Fingland, our Print Category Specialist is contributing his knowledge about print industry competition in the current economic climate. To read the full article please click here.
Employer of the Year Nomination
ConsultantNews.com
28 October 2009
buyingTeam's nomination for the Employer of the Year category of National Business Awards 2009 is the main news of the ConsultantNews.com with the quotes from buyingTeam's Managing Director Matthew Eatough and Operations Director Robert Sullivan. To read this news piece please click here.
Ready to recover?
Accountancy Magazine
21 October 2009
buyingTeam's Clients Director, Guy Strafford is giving his opinion on the economy recovery in the latest edition of Accountancy Magazine. To read this article please click here.
Procurement savings could provide £53bn boost to FTSE 350
Financial Director
20 October 2009
buyingTeam identifies eight sectors that would most benefit from a 5% cut in procurement costs for the UK’s 350 largest companies and could boost profits by £53bn in yesterday’s Financial Director’s article. To read this article with buyingTeam's Managing Director, Matthew Eatough quote click here.
When procurement is a matter of life and death
Financial Times
25 August 2009
In the Business Life section of today's Financial Times Stefan Stern is pointing out the importance of procurement in current economic climate and the role that specialists procurement companies such as buyingTeam play in it. Click on the link below to read this article.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/40b25632-910e-11de-bc99-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
Business retail surgery
Retail Week
17 August 2009
Our Retail sector Account Director, Greg Watt, is advising in the latest issue of Retail Week on how the business would benefit from centralised visibility of spending. To read this article please click here.
buyingTeam to open European service hub
Logistics Manager
05 August 2009
Our plan to open new office in Wales in September has been published in logisticsmanager.com. To read more please go to:
http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/12007/buyingTeam+to+open+European+service+hub.html
Buying power potential
Facilities Management
15 July 2009
Don Welch FM category specialist from buyingTeam considers how to streamline purchasing on facilities management while continuing to deliver a high level of service in his article from the latest edition of Facilities Management. Click here to read full article.
Spend your way through economic downturn
Computerworld UK
14 July 2009
Anson Chuang our CIO advises in the latest edition of Computerworld UK on how the IT departments can best help their organisations negotiate the economic downturn. Click here to read this article.
Be dead or quick
Supply Management
14 July 2009
buyingTeam's Imran Khan has teamed up with Ron Jarman and the result is a brand new article in the latest edition of Supply Management. ‘Be quick or be dead’ is discussing how the companies can mitigate risk and drive competitive advantage as supply chains get longer and more complex. To read this article please click here.
The CPO's point of view
Supply Management
08 June 2009
Our Head of European operations, Olivier Durand, advises in the latest edition of Supply Management on how to shift a perception from “purchaser” to “strategic adviser” in his section ‘The CPO's point of view’. Click here to read this article.
Change of Fortune
CFO Europe
May 2009
Anson Chung, buyingTeam's CIO and James Adamson, the IT category specialist, have contributed to the article about re-evaluating of procurement contracts in the latest CFO Europe Magazine. Click here to read this article.
Spend time understanding spending
Municipal Journal
March 2009
In the latest edition of MJ (Municipal Journal), Richard Gibson, buyingTeam's Public Sector Account Director is advising in his article on how to 'Spend time to understand spending'. MJ is a weekly news journal focusing on the latest developments across local government. Click here to read the full article.
Supply Management Outsourcing Supplement
Supply Management
October 2008
buyingTeam is the sponsor of October 2008 Supply Management Procurement Outsourcing Supplement.
Great testimonials from Universal Music CFO on our ‘Oscar of Outsourcing’
Outsourcing Centre
August 2008
David Bryant, Universal Music’s CFO is giving outstanding testimonials on the work with them in the Outsourcing Centre article ‘Fundamentally Changing the Way Universal Music Operates...for the Better’.
Click on the link below to read full article.
http://www.outsourcing-journal.com/aug2008-besteu.html?email010919
Supplier corner: Helping companies buy better
Outsourcing centre and Everest group company
June 2008
Guy Strafford, our client services director says "most people don't negotiate or buy particularly well." But that's why buyingTeam exists. Click here to read this article.
Charity begins at home
Supply Management Magazine
January 2008
Our Public sector Account Director Richard Gibson has made his significant input in the ‘Charity begins at home’ article in the latest Supply Management magazine. Richard is explaining the importance of charities procurement functions and presents examples of his team successful two years work for children charity Barnardos. Do really charities need a procurement experts? Click here to read this article.