by 4C Insights | Jul 30, 2024 | Defence & Security, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Health & Social Care, Industrial Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Nuclear, Public Sector, Retail & Consumer, Transport & Infrastructure
Strategic sourcing is an important element within procurement and category management. Historically, a strategic sourcing may have focused on driving cost reduction (using a total cost of ownership approach), but now considers wider procurement and business objectives...
by 4C Insights | Jul 30, 2024 | Defence & Security, Financial Services, Health & Social Care, Life Sciences, Nuclear, Public Sector & Regulated Industry, Retail & Consumer, Transport & Infrastructure
A sustainable supply chain is one that fully integrates ethical and environmentally responsible practices into a commercially competitive and operationally successful model for the delivery of products and services. In its effective and efficient management,...
by 4C Insights | Jul 17, 2024 | Defence & Security, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Health & Social Care, Industrial Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Nuclear, Public Sector, Retail & Consumer, Transport & Infrastructure
We live in an era marked by rapid technological advancements, geopolitical shifts, unforeseen black swan events and the ever-evolving and dynamic nature of business and customer culture. As a result of this, organisations often find themselves having to navigate a...
by 4C Insights | Jul 10, 2024 | Defence & Security, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Health & Social Care, Industrial Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Nuclear, Public Sector, Transport & Infrastructure
Our Managing Director, Jeremy Smith, spoke with Rich Sains from The Procurement Conversation about building and retaining high performing teams. In the episode, they covered: Putting a diverse range of people in the right positions to create the strongest teams...
by 4C Insights | Jul 3, 2024 | Health & Social Care, Life Sciences
The upcoming general election and new government’s policies will undoubtedly have some impact on the landscape of supply chains and logistics for the next four years. Conversely, it will be important to examine how the efficiency and resilience of supply chains can...
by 4C Insights | Jul 1, 2024 | Defence & Security, Financial Services, Health & Social Care, Life Sciences, Nuclear, Public Sector & Regulated Industry, Retail & Consumer, Transport & Infrastructure
The workplace environment is changing and our expectations of each other, our services, products and suppliers with it. The generational mix of workers is evolving towards those born into a technology enabled world (see figure 1 below). What does that mean for our...
