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Thu 19th Jan 2012

Procurement - the profession of choice

As the CIPS President David Smith and Supply Management support the drive to raise the profile of the procurement profession, Rebecca Ellinor spoke to several procurement professionals about how they ...

Wed 4th Jan 2012

Feature interview in Procurement Professional magazine

Procurement Professional magazine explore current challenges and change facing the profession and the institute in an interview with Peter Rushton. To read the full interview, click here....

Fri 30th Dec 2011

There's no stopping procurement in Australasia

Former CIPS President and CEO of Optimum Procurement Peter Rushton talks to Supply Management about procurements position as "the fastest growing profession in business". For the full article click h...

Tue 20th Dec 2011

Optimum support CIPS Foundation

The new CIPS President David Smith recently lined up alongside past President Peter Rushton and CIPS CEO David Noble for a football fundraiser supporting the CIPS Foundation at Wembley Stadium –...

Mon 28th Nov 2011

Optimum win new procurement outsourcing contract with cricket champions Lancashire

Champion deal pushes back business boundaries. County Championship winners Lancashire are confident a new cost-saving deal will deliver big business benefits as the Club drives ahead with a redevelop...

Procurement outsourcing deals set to surge in 2012

"It has been a boom rather than a bane," says Saurabh Gupta, vice president at Everest Group, when asked of the impact the economic crisis has had on the procurement outsourcing market. And that senti...

Honorary Fellowship for Lindsay Tanner

Australia’s former Federal Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Lindsay Tanner has been accorded the rare distinction of a CIPS Honorary Fellowship, the first to be bestowed outside of the UK....

President's Dinner 2011

Recent tradition dictates that the President of the Institute now hosts a dinner to celebrate the key activities of their year in office and to reflect on the future challenges facing the procurement ...

Outsourcing's role in procurement's journey to the heart of the business

Third party providers can bring expertise and experience from within and across industries and businesses. They can also flex this expertise when demand is high and remove during the troughs &nda...

The power of procurement

A new type of outsourcing is galvanising the world procurement and it's delivering surprisingly large returns. It's relatively easy to obtain short-term savings by squeezing existing suppliers but yo...