If you're looking for a clear recipe for how to run procurement - especially in the often-overlooked world of indirect procurement - this is the book to read. This is a practical guide providing a comprehensive framework for transforming procurement into a value-creating business partner. Through clear models, real-world examples, and actionable tools, it walks you step-by-step through the essential disciplines of modern procurement. You'll learn how to: - Achieve full visibility into indi...

Seán Gaffney's interests in people, places and their art and music is evident in the four mini suites of this collection of poems. The Caucasus Suite explores that mountain range, its shifting borders and boundaries -- all seen through the photographs of a female Russian photographer half Gaffney's age with the mountains holding metaphors for the complex relationship between the two. Then comes Caravaggio with the spiritual resonances evoked by some of the religious themes he painted. This...

In Seán Gaffney's fifth suite of poems he is presenting a mixture of prose and poetry in a strong and touching celebration of his son, Dara Gaffney, who at the age of fourteen was diagnosed with leukemia. Only a few months later Dara died from his disease. What is taking place here is an essential part of Seán's life, where he holds Dara within himself during the mourning process that simultaneously is a life process, in a recurring dialogue each year at Dara's birth and death days. A life...