这是我们以来的一段时间MSDUK.那“the UK’s leading non-profit membership organisation driving inclusive procurement. We promote the ethos of diversity and inclusion in public and private sector supply chains by identifying and introducing innovative and entrepreneurial ethnic minority owned businesses (EMBs)”.
该组织似乎将从力量的力量来，规划对其最大的事件，年会，展览，奖项和9月21日的计划进行了良好。英石– 22nd在伦敦的格兰奇塔大桥酒店。我们将在活动之前，期间和之后覆盖亮点。
Why should procurement people and organisations care about buying from minority owned businesses? Well, we’d like to think that any good procurement professional would agree with two key principles that might form part of our “ten commandments” of procurement.
首先,我们应该总是开放和seek out new, innovative, interesting suppliers. That sense of curiously and openness seems an essential characteristic of the best procurement people we know. Secondly, our procurement processes should not be biased – consciously or otherwise – against small firms, those less experienced at competing through formal sourcing process, or those that just aren’t the usual suspects that we’ve worked with for years.
很难看到任何人都能真正不同意那些陈述。然而，经常，组织（以及他们的采购人）确实坚持他们所知道的;他们从同一个，通常大，安全的供应商那里购买，并运行笨拙或偏见的选择过程，这难以新的潜在供应商渗透。
所以来自MSDUK的消息是不是该采购应向少数股份公司展示偏袒;它是关于被开放的思想和不同的业务有机会。MSDUK帮助这些公司和大型买家联系并相互理解，并在9月份的活动具有传统演示以及网络的机会。已经有许多高调的组织支持MSDUK和该活动，例如由Tim Milliwood，VP - 购买，康明斯组成的小组讨论;Al Williams，CPO，埃森哲;Larry Phelan，CPO，EY和MALCOM HARCRISO，CROCK商业服务。
There’s also a keynote from Lord Karan Bilimoria, founder of Cobra beer. That should be great; I’ve heard a little of the “inside story” of Cobra from a friend in the Indian restaurant trade, and it is a very impressive and fascinating story.
We’ll be featuring some of the firms and CPOs who support MSDUK in the coming weeks; but you can在这里了解有关该活动的更多信息。And we’re grateful to Mayank Shah, founder of MSDUK, for offering Spend Matters readers a 10% discount on tickets; just quote discount code SM10 when you book.
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