Padraig Twomey, Group Procurement Manager of Bord Gáis, gives our readers an overview of procurement at Bord Gáis, as well as offering insights on the benefits and challenges of outsourcing and central purchasing management.		IBM’s Service Oriented Architecture  How service-oriented architecture can help leverage existing investment in IT and drive agility, supplier collaboration and demand-driven replenishment.
		FEXCO and Bord Gáis in Outsource Deal Bord Gáis has established a strategic customer service outsourcing partnership with FEXCO to deliver service to over 600,000 of its existing customers.
		Supply Chain Partnerships Improving the people and people relationships is a key for more effective supply chain management and for the whole business.
		Now more than ever, procurement needs to ask questions… Established in 2001 – right in the middle of the dot.com bust – the founders of Nathean Technologies, Ronan Wisdom and John Pugh, initially focussed on delivering integration solutions. According to Ronan Wisdom, "From the outset, our business philosophy has been to align ourselves very closely with our customers’ goals. As a result, we were able to notice that increasingly our customers not only needed to integrate data, but also to ask that data questions.
Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Training. Practical training seminars to increase the effectivness of purchasing and supply chain staff.
Supply Network Shannon Meet the buyer event Tuesday 14th October 2008,  The Radisson SAS Hotel, Limerick
Association of Purchasing and Supply Membership APS is a membership based network providing training and support services to purchasing and supply chain management practitioners.

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