Weddings are high profile, strategically important, stressful and complex events. Wedding planning requires precise timing, co-ordination and sequencing of events, a calm demeanour, nerves of steel and a pinch of patience. Can the stress of wedding planning be reduced through use of procurement sourcing tools and techniques, read on to find out. 

The Home Office delivered an ultimatum to 17,000 chief executives: open up on modern slavery or risk being named as being in breach of the law. This is an updated blog post, first published in October 2017.  One year on, I track progress made. ​Read on to find out how procurement can play its part in making supply chains more transparent and ridding them of modern slavery. 

"I need you to write a tender. Submissions in a week and the customers in Australia, here's the link" my client words "okay, I will take a look" I reply, positive as ever about a new challenge. My client, likes to push boundaries and expand into new markets and is especially keen on the NHS Australian market. But bidding for Australian business presents a challenge, mainly the time difference, presenting via Skype at 02:30 in the morning (UK time) is not to most people's liking.  ​

This is a follow up blog post to my original blog post 'tender process acronyms explained' in part 2. I will cover more advanced tender process acronyms to help you through the tender process.