Catch of the day
13 September 2012
Procurement is surfacing as a big issue for consultancies, and the major players are landing some lucrative contracts. Sarah Hancock reports
Consultant has often been a dirty word for business practitioners, and no less so in the world of purchasing. Vilified for peddling new theories, repackaging old ideas and thinking up baffling management speak, consultants are spurned by most procurement practitioners. It is, then, ironic how highly consultants now regard purchasing. Historically, the procurement...