17 January 2007

Buy consultants and other professional services for up to 20% less

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Professional services is a category of spend that is sometimes poorly understood and often not addressed when searching for cost saving opportunities, says Elaine Porteous, an independent procurement advisor. “If any area within the broad category of professional services has never been sourced or has not been addressed within the last three years, your company […]

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Update: New developments in the “Catering Services” marketplace.

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“After benchmarking staff catering for a number of years some interesting changes have occured that are affecting this crucial support service,” says Alan Low of Purchasing index. “At the turn of the century many organizations had outsourced staff catering usually to one of the better known service providers, e.g. Royal, KKS, Fedics, etc. who usually

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Supplier sustainability evaluation service launched

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Organisations can better manage risks by limiting their exposure to unstable suppliers. The general principle being that insight into a supplier’s sustainability profile, will advance the procurement department’s ability to plan for and handle, disruptions in supply, inconsistencies in product quality, the sourcing of back up or new suppliers and a host of other related

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TCO of Changing to a new supplier

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On the Procurementtips.com Forum Bob McLeay from RACV in Australia asked the follwing interesting question: “A lot of my work is in establishing agreements for provision of indirect services. When comparing the total cost of alternative bids I usually apply a notional cost to non incumbents to allow for the cost of transition to a

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Buy consultants and other professional services for up to 20% less

Update: New developments in the “Catering Services” marketplace.

Supplier sustainability evaluation service launched

TCO of Changing to a new supplier

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