Features

Summer 2006

Developing the super supplierAdvanced collaborative relationships are still rare, but they offer real competitive advantage - and CPOs should be leading the search
Who's in the driving seat?As traditional boundaries between purchasing and logistics blur, there is an emerging contest for leadership of the supply chain
Territorial claimsThe CPO of Axa, the world's biggest insurance company, talks about the challenges of transforming procurement without central control
Thinking outside the boxCPOs can help their firms escape the clutches of patent-protected monopolistic suppliers using a process called 'invention on demand'