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The circular economy: How procurement professionals can drive change
August 10, 2021|Blog|Sustainable Procurement

Chris Holmes, Senior VP Global Sourcing at Avantor & Sustainable Procurement Ambassador, talks about the role procurement professionals can play in driving progress towards a circular economy.

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Managing Procurement during a pandemic
July 21, 2021|Blog

Andy McMinn talks about managing procurement through a pandemic in the National Health Service (NHS), the UK’s government-funded medical and health care service.

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Sustainable procurement: Start to make a difference
June 20, 2021|Blog|Sustainable Procurement

Positive CEO, Jonathan O’Brien, explains the importance of sustainability within procurement and how we must all act now.

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How Cost Modelling Can Power Negotiations
May 7, 2021|Blog|Negotiation

Cost modelling can generate real advantage for procurement professionals. Antony Fisher of leading spend intelligence specialists Mintec explains how teams can benefit.

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Five Winning Ways to Build Negotiation Rapport
April 29, 2021|Insights|Negotiation

Learn how to build a negotiation rapport to gain a competitive advantage.

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Supplier Management: How agile thinking can build collaborative relationships and unlock value
April 27, 2021|Insights|Supplier Relationship Management

This ten-step process explains how organizations can adopt agile approaches that will enable strategic suppliers to be future drivers of value.

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When Procurement Goes Wrong
March 31, 2021|Blog

Tales of ‘Bad Buying’ from one of the UK’s leading experts in public and private sector procurement performance improvement, Peter Smith.

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Supplier Management: How to Deal with Risk
March 22, 2021|Insights|Supplier Relationship Management

Supply-side risk can seriously harm a business, so we must really get to know our important suppliers.

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Negotiating Remotely
March 15, 2021|Blog|Negotiation

‘Cameras on’. Remote negotiation is here to stay. Embrace the process and learn the skills to connect and communicate successfully. Let’s face it, remote negotiation is something we should have been doing ages ago. After all, we’ve had the technology…

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Re-imagining procurement for the post-Covid world
February 19, 2021|Blog

Positive’s CEO, Jonathan O’Brien, addresses the procurement challenges and opportunities faced by businesses operating post-covid.

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Key skill sets for the negotiators of the future
February 2, 2021|Insights|Negotiation

Learn what we need to start to do differently to succeed and gain advantage in the future.

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Negotiation: Harness subconscious power to gain advantage
December 15, 2020|Insights|Negotiation

Explore how our subconscious can be our greatest ally in a negotiation.

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