Riding the wave
13 September 2012
Purchasing’s rapid promotion from backroom chit chat to hot topic in the boardroom has left some procurement professionals floundering. Julian Watts offers some advice on how to keep your head above water in the rising tide of e-commerce implementation
It started harmlessly enough - just a newspaper article quietly left on my desk. It was followed a few weeks later by another, this time with the loaded letters FYI - for your information - scrawled in the top corner. And so it went on, week after week. Soon, it had become too big to ignore - it just wasn’t going to go away. Then, the phone call came: “The chief...