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May 09, 2011 07:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time : SOUTHLAKE, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–GetThere (http://www.getthere.com), the world’s leading travel and collaboration management solution, today announced the results of the 11th annual GetThere Corporate Travel Benchmark Survey. The survey revealed that while business travel is increasing, corporations are still heavily focused on reducing travel expenses. read more

PepsiCo looks to be centralizing a significant portion of its media and marketing procurement functions. In an internal memo obtained by Ad Age, Grace Puma, senior vice-president and chief procurement officer, detailed changes within PepsiCo’s advertising and marketing sourcing team, and highlighted the creation of a Center of Excellence (COE) for advertising and marketing. read [...]

AOTMP today announced the release of its latest Enterprise Performance Series report entitled “Sourcing, Procurement and Contract Management.” The study identifies, companies that focus most on terms and conditions when negotiating contracts, as opposed to price, realize twice as much savings. read more

Government commissioners and procurers of public services could do more to leverage competition as a means of achieving long-term value for money, an OFT study has found. read more

Airbus and its parent company EADS have signed a procurement frame contract with Southwest Aluminium (Group) Co., Ltd. (SWA), one of the largest aluminium product producers in China, for the manufacture and supply of aluminium plate. read more

Buying directly from the phone company may become business model of the past In ten years will anyone buy phone service from a phone carrier? If that sounds like a silly question, consider that the telecom market is no more immune to change and evolution than was the advertising industry through Google or the software [...]

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO) said that turmoil in north Africa and the Middle East was behind the fresh spike in the price of wheat and cooking oil, with many governments hoarding food. read more

Ten mid-sized German automotive suppliers plan to jointly buy in IT products in an effort to build scale together and reduce costs, one of their CIOs said Thursday. read more

In the past few years, we have seen how the crowd sourcing business models that have emerged for outsourcing projects to freelancers around the world at a very low cost. read more

South India has emerged as one of the best places for auto component sourcing centres, panelists at a seminar said here on Tuesday. read more