SCAPA Services Blog
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Procuring From Australia Pty
Can Australia Pty take on and stave off foreign competition and protect its key high value add industries. The recent news regarding potential job cuts within the shipbuilding sector in Victoria and South Australia isn’t good, considering all the other bad news...
My 10 Rules Of Procurement
If Procurement is to be seen as a key player in the overall organisational scheme of things, these are its 10 KPIs, or rules that shall define and measure success. Many decades ago when I was a novice within the noble art of Procurement (or Purchasing as it was...
Are Australia SMEs Needing A Procurement Trick?
Can closer attention by Small Medium Enterprises to Procurement as a strategic component work the competitiveness magic? Australia Pty Ltd has a high cost manufacturing base. Globally only Norway pays higher salaries to its workforce than Australia does. Is this a...
MRO…..Massive Reduction Opportunity
MRO...Maintenance, Repair & Operations or More Rotten Orders. Or, as I’ve titled it, Massive Reduction Opportunity! A recent blog in Procurement Leaders “A Roadmap For MRO Savings And Efficiencies” pointed to this category as being one of the most rewarding areas...
Sam Walsh Says
Rio Tinto chief executive Sam Walsh told procurement professionals they were “incredibly important” to their businesses and had a big role to play in innovation. This is what one of Australia's top businessmen had to say about the vital importance of Procurement...