- 05
- MAR
The PIU is excited to announce the launch of our first-ever CPO strategy survey
Author: Maggie Slowik - Categories:
This week, the PIU launched its first-ever annual procurement strategy report, entitled 'Procurement CPO 2010 – Playing the Full Role'. Among other trends, the study identifies the major challenges and priorities that CPOs and their teams are facing this year, the key success factors they believe are critical in overcoming them and the ways in which performance is measured. more
- 17
- FEB
Supply chain management blueprint puts Toyota in the red
Author: Maggie Slowik - Categories: Procurement Intelligence
In 1950s Japan, Toyota hit on something – not out of any great feat of ingenuity, rather out of necessity. Now, with lawsuits pending totalling over US$2 billion and one of the automotive industry's most potentially damaging recalls in full swing, it needs to do likewise. And fast. more
- 29
- JAN
Kraft faces graft to avoid meltdown
Author: Maggie Slowik - Categories:
As culture clashes come, this, in the business world at least, is as big as they get. Kraft's fiercely resisted (at least for a time) acquisition of Cadbury has seen one of the driving forces of the corporate world across the Atlantic join forces with a company that remains, for many, quintessentially English. more