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Hard times calls for hard cash

The credit crisis is affecting organisations from those in the Dow Jones to those run by Mr and Mrs Jones and is driving a need for tighter controls on cash. Improved management of third party spend with suppliers offers organisations a quick ...

4 Oct 07

A winning position: supplier relationship management is becoming a strategic battleground

Alan Day in his recent CPO agenda article discusses how supplier relationship management (SRM) is becoming a strategic battleground within organisations. And procurement isn't the only function jostling for supremacy.

17 Jul 07

Risk in the Supply Chain wins a British Insurance Award

The British Insurance Awards have selected Risk in the Supply Chain, an innovative market offering jointly developed by Aon and State of Flux, as a the winner of the Risk Management Award. This category recognises "a significant contribut ...

27 Mar 06

The threat of Bird Flu has far-reaching implications for business.

Since the middle of 2003, a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus has been infecting animals in South-East Asia and more recently parts of Europe . The World Health Organisation has declared it to be the 'largest and most severe [strain] ...

18 Nov 05

It's worth weighting for! How Purchasers are making incorrect decisions

Purchasers are making the wrong decisions because they are weighting the wrong criteria. State of Flux recommends the decision-analysis technique called 'swing weighting'.

4 Aug 05

Large organisations role in bridging the digital divide

The United Nations e-Trade Bridge program and others like it are achieving good results with a bottom up approach, however an opportunity exists to incorporate a top down approach which would focus on the influence that large multi-national or ...