At over 330 years old, Lloyd’s is the most recognisable insurance institution in the world. Specialising in non-standard risks others cannot or will not insure it is something of a world renown institution. It is also necessarily a complex market place, steeped in history yet embracing the future. For example Lloyd’s works on a 3
Read moreOne of our fathers had just been watching the UK news . The UK transport minister had just seen a £33 million out of court settlement to Euro Star because a tender process had gone a tad wrong. The penny had dropped; a career in procurement was suddenly vindicated as the consequences of not doing
Read moreBy the 25th May 2018 GDPR comes in to force and it affects anyone who trades with anyone within the EU. Within the UK there are now thousands of experts in the field, guiding companies through the process of readiness, changing contractual terms for their suppliers (and increasing limits of liability for breaches if uncapped
Read moreOne of us was let lose this month and found himself in front of 300 sleepy post-lunch sets of eyes staring blankly back at him. Of course, the content up on the stage screen was grossly over-engineered as our intrepid speaker could not shake the thought that by representing Business Docs in a public arena,
Read moreI have spent many years working in the financial services sector; a heavily regulated industry where fraud is a constant and real presence. The fact is that people do steal from their insurance company and our head office had a zero tolerance approach. Which is completely understandable. But on occasion it felt as if the
Read moreWe flew Ryan Air recently and it was “interesting”, but what really stood out was at every stage the supply chain was held up to blame as the villain who was responsible for every small problem. Our experience was actually not too bad; two flights, two delays, a grand total of about 3 hours delays
Read more“All style and no substance” is something that we have all heard before; uttered by way of a critique, not implying but forthrightly stating that a product, idea or even a person looks the part but this hides an absence of anything to back it up. In our time we have seen our fair share
Read moreRead any paper or article on supply chain management and one key factor returns time after time : How engaged you are with your supply chain? Let’s look at Best Practise This is our summary of best practise in the industry: The idea is a very simple one; in order to get the best out of
Read moreSupplier Management is a tricky business; you often have a complex array of commodities or services being provided by an selection of different companies. And just to make life just that little bit more difficult, it’s rare that each supplier acts in isolation. More often than not a part of what one supplier delivers (or not!) will
Read moreWhat? Do you mean Pestle and Mortar? No we don’t. PESTLE stands for Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental. It’s a well established way of a business or enterprise to track the wider environment in which they are operating in. Is it still relevant? Yes. Well mostly – there has been some debate about
Read moreThe Excel Dynamic Status Dials – communicates status using dials powered by Excel data.
Read moreLet’s consider the picture above for a brief moment. We know that each vehicle here is going to be a different make, model, specification and colour, but from our initial view point all we can see is a very similar array of vehicles. Asked to chose the best one for any particular purpose (other than
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