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8 ways to use customer case studies

Your website is an obvious place to introduce your Company to potential new customers and highlight your services and your successes. How well are you doing this? You can place case studies on a webpage [...]

5 key skills for Gen-Y

If you are one of the Generation Y (born between the mid-1980s and 2000) and have ambitions to get ahead in procurement, you can expect great opportunities ahead due to the retirement of the Baby Boomers.

To tender or not to tender?

Entrepreneur SA Magazine, May 2015 An old adage says; “only bid for business where you have an 80% chance of winning”. Don’t waste time and money on tenders you can’t win, rather wait for [...]

RFQ or RFP?

Many people use these terms interchangeably, which can be really confusing so let’s clarify them first. What’s the difference? A Request for Quotation (RFQ) is used when it is pretty clear that we know what [...]

Spares Optimisation

White paper : Breaking the Binds Achieving Working Capital Release through Spares Optimisation. A solution for asset intensive industries in challenging environments. February 21st, 2015 Breaking the Binds

What you should consider before rehiring employees

Brazen Life , January 27th, 2015 Visit the original article online When you rehire an ex-employee, especially one that was a star, it looks like you are getting a great deal. What you see is [...]

“Elaine has great industry knowledge and supplements this with thorough research. She writes in an engaging style, delivers to promise and communicates well with clients. Her content is always on point, industry specific and submitted on deadline.”

Gavin Parnell, Director, The Supply Chain Consulting Group

“We find Elaine to be a supremely knowledgeable, meticulous and flexible partner. Elaine’s special strength is combining her extensive procurement and supply chain management experience with a keen interest to help professionals understand key topics. She is capable of both independent work and compliments our in-house content marketing team. Her written English is always clear and understandable and can adjust to different regional / tone of voice preferences.”

Lari Numminen, Chief Marketing Officer Sievo