“I also want people to get away from their desks and truly understand why things are the way they are , and to pinpoint the problems we are trying to solve ”
— Robert Copeland , Group Procurement & Supply Chain Director ( CPO ), G4S Plc
mobilising testing facilities across the country , including 18 regional , 92 local & 65 mobile sites , requiring G4S to rapidly recruit thousands of additional staff .
With all of these programmes around the world in addition to day-to-day activities , the Procurement function has been thoroughly challenged . The procurement
team adapted and worked hard during the first few weeks of the crisis to source and expedite over 10 million items of PPE , helping keep over 500,000 employees and our customers safe .
We teamed up with the G4S subsidiary Hill & Associates Consultants Limited one of Asia ’ s leading provider of specialist risk mitigation to rapidly go on site in China to screen PPE manufacturers who had never supplied G4S before , giving us greater visibility of the product quality and business standards . Beyond that , we had to ensure G4S supply chains were responsive and agile
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