Mark is an audio visual category buyer in the public sector and is looking to purchase a large quantity of interactive screens for medical lecture rooms across a university campus. Mark expects this to cost in excess of £950,000 and suggests to his user group that a competitive tendering process should take place. Was this the right approach?
What mechanism helps buying organisations achieve a best value outcome in a tender exercise?
Intra-company trading allows business units within a large enterprise to supply goods or services to another. What are the likely objectives of intra-company trading?
Enhances production capacity utilisation
Offsets some of the fixed costs of the supplying entity
Compensates the supplying unit for the less effective technology applied
Ensures internal technology always out-performs that of external suppliers
If a company is concerned with ethical sourcing and has concerns about issues such as corruption and modern day slavery within the supply chain, what course of action should they take?