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The Historic Acquisition of Credit Suisse and Using Procurement in Acquisitions of Distressed Assets

Over the last few weeks, we have seen a number of major acquisitions. None larger than the historic ‘shotgun-acquisition’ of Credit Suisse. UBS will pay 3 billion Swiss francs (£2.644 billion) for 167-year-old Credit Suisse Group AG and assume up to $5.4 billion in losses. The acquisition makes UBS a significantly more powerful on the global stage, with a pro-forma c.$5 trillion...

4 Reasons Why Sustainability Is Key to Commercial Success

In the wake of Shell and BP announcing record-breaking profits for 2022 driven by the increase in wholesale gas prices following the war in Ukraine, their sustainability targets have been placed firmly in the back seat. BP announced that its profits had doubled to $28b whilst also revising its commitment to cut oil and gas production by 40% by...

A COP-out or common sense? The wait for a COP-led global carbon market continues

COP (Conference of the Parties) global climate summits have been running for nearly three decades. The most recent of which, number 27, concluded on Sunday 20th November after 13 days of talks held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The planned agenda was rigorous and ambitious, but the reality was less productive, and the finalisation of some crucial topics was kicked like the...

5 ways to make your supply chain more sustainable

In today’s world, it’s crucial for businesses to be socially responsible and accountable. Customers are becoming increasingly conscious about how companies operate, which has led to many businesses focusing on being sustainable. This has implications for supply chain management as supply chains, normally, make up most of a organisations emissions, and supply chains that are more sustainable tend to...

How Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) can strengthen your supply chain resilience

After the recent events of the past two years, Supply Chain resilience has now become the focus of companies and markets around the world. But what does it mean to have a resilient Supply Chain in today’s world? And how can the completion of Mergers / Acquisitions strengthen that resilience.

Creating Supply Chain Resilience

No one would dispute that the COVID-19 pandemic created significant disruption to global supply chains. Nothing like this had happened in decades, and many operators relied on strategies that only partly addressed their challenges. Then came the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has caused the greatest humanitarian crisis in Europe since the Second World War. Already, thousands of lives...

Equality in Procurement and Supply Chain Departments

There are many pieces of legislation that currently help govern procurement behaviours within a workplace such as the Equality Act 2010 and The Public Contracts Regulations which both provide for a legal duty to eliminate discrimination and advance equality of opportunity.

Does the future of procurement consultancy lie in alliances?

To address and explore the future of the procurement function, the key theme of the recent 4CP Group Away Day focused on emerging disruptive technologies – their role in disrupting procurement and supply chain teams and how they will impact the business’ ability to transform through technology, processes and people.

The Growing Impact of Climate Change on Commodity Markets

By definition, a commodity is a basic good used in commerce that is interchangeable with other goods of the same type. Because of their substantially interchangeable nature, commodities trading has been evolving with humans since 4000 BC, when people in Sumer used clay tablets to denote the number of goods to be delivered.