Cross Cultural Negotiation
What is it? Africa does not have a well-developed industry for pharmaceuticals, medical supplies and medical equipment. Healthcare ...
Definitions of Fraud, Bribery and Corruption
Procurement teams are responsible for spending significant amounts of money as a share of an organisation’s total budget. In ...
Developing Evaluation Criteria
Background Establishing evaluation criteria is an important part of many procurement processes. When developed appropriately criteria ...
Drivers and Benefits of Ethical procurement
In recent years ethical procurement has moved from the fringes of the business world to become one of the main concerns for business ...
E-Procurement Systems
INTRODUCTION E-procurement is the combined use of electronic information and communications technology in order to enhance the links ...
Emotional Intelligence
What is it? Early leadership thinking promoted the traits theory, which focused on identifying different personality traits and ...
Ethical Procurement Case Studies
Two case studies are presented which demonstrate how healthcare organisations are dealing with ethical trading issues.[1] Guy’s and St ...
Ethical Sourcing
Many private sector organisations who are suppliers, strive to have an ethical approach to what they do. This means having a positive ...
Ethics and the Organisation
The impact of ethical standards on procurement and supply has never been more important in todays challenging environment. Social ...
Expediting
Expediting is about understanding your suppliers’ operations so you are aware of their production processes and you can follow them ...
Framework Agreements
INTRODUCTION Framework agreements are contracting mechanisms in which long-term contracts provide the terms and conditions under which ...
Global Sourcing
Buying products and services from other countries [Global Sourcing (and Low-Cost Country Sourcing LCC) ] Globalisation has opened up ...