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Keep up to date with the latest news and views in the YPO Blog

We'll be blogging every few days about various topics, so come back soon to see more!

Meet the Category Manager - Adam Throup

13 July 2018 By Adam Throup - Category Manager

Adam joined YPO nine years ago and is a category manager for Energy in the Procurement Services team.
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Meet the Category Manager - Lesley Harper

12 July 2018 By Lesley Harper - Category Manager

Lesley joined YPO in May as Category Manager for Social Care
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What makes a gas standing charge?

19 June 2018 By Adam Throup, Category Manager - Energy

It’s a question we get often in various forms – why has the standing charge gone up? What causes the standing charge to change? If I reduce my AQ will it reduce my standing charge?
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World of Procurement - My world and yours

14 June 2018 By Gillian Askew, Head of Procurement

With the exciting news of our first ever 'World of Procurement' event taking place in London on 19 September, I wanted to take the opportunity to explain what this means for you - our customers, for YPO and the public sector, and for me personally.
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Eight reasons why a DPS should be in your toolkit

03 May 2018 By Paul Smith, Executive Director

I was recently invited by Sigma (a joint initiative of the OECD and the European Union) to present YPO’s expertise in the use of Dynamic Purchasing Systems to the public procurement teams in both Turkey and Ukraine.
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Transformational procurement

25 April 2018 By Gillian Askew, Head of Procurement

I’ve been talking recently about attracting talent into public sector procurement and one of the things I reflected on was what it meant to be a public sector procurement professional right now.
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Meet our new Sustainable Procurement Manager

05 April 2018 By Melissa Bell, Sustainable Procurement Manager

Melissa joined YPO nearly 15 years ago as has been appointed to the new role of Sustainable Procurement Manager
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Can procurement change the world?

28 March 2018 By Gillian Askew, Head of Procurement

Working in public sector procurement is not for the faint hearted. Faced with the hardest recession in our lifetime, professional procurers within the public sector have been asked to step up and deliver more value through procurement than ever before.
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Changes to the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation

26 March 2018 By Steve Sefton, Category Buyer - Energy

New Government legislation has been passed in relation to changes to the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) as part of its strategy to promote renewable transport fuels. Our category buyer for Energy Steve Sefton, explains which fuels are affected, what will change and how this will affect prices.
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Meet the Category Buyer - Carmen Emmerson

26 March 2018 By Carmen Emmerson, Category Buyer - Energy

Carmen joined YPO four and a half years ago and is a category buyer for Energy in the Procurement Services team.
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