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The Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply

About us

CIPS is an international organisation, based in the UK, serving the purchasing and supply profession.

Dedicated to promoting good practice, CIPS provides a wide range of services for the benefit of members and the wider business community.

Events

Procurement risk management

07 July 2009

Increasingly, top executives view supply markets as sources of competitive advantage and as means of achieving strategic objectives. Procurement is the management activity that makes this happen, and this process depends on superior risk management capability to deliver maximum effectiveness.

Contract drafting

14 July 2009, 17 November 2009

This invaluable two day seminar will equip you with the practical skills to draft robust contracts for services and goods. Led by two experts – one a solicitor, one a barrister – these two days will bring to life the contract document and will provide the keystones necessary for resilient supplier relationships.

The procurement of specialist contract & temporary workers

12 August 2009, 01 December 2009

In this highly informative seminar you will learn what employment rights temporary and contract workers have as well as how best to improve efficiency and achieve economies. In the current economic climate, it is vitally important that you know how to minimise legal risks as well as knowing what to push in negotiations and what not to.

Your tutor Kevin Barrow, solicitor and the head of the Recruitment and HR Outsourcing Groups at Tarlo Lyons, has advised on legal and commercial issues relating to the engagement of temporary and contract workers since 1991. He is the acknowledged legal expert in this area.

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Strategic supply management: principles, theories and practice

Paul Cousins, Richard Lamming, Benn Lawson, Brian Squire

Drawing on international research this text blends established theory and current practice to provide a comprehensive coverage of this wide and constantly developing area.

Price: £36.99

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