Supply chain management

Caretaker PM Ognyan Gerdzhikov stated that the new cabinet will not be apprehensive about cancelling public procurement orders made at the last moment and involving a lot of money.

Gerdzhikov pointed out that this is not a "witch hunt".

According to data released by STR, a US-based company dealing in analysing trends and supply and demand in the global tourism industry, Greek hotels reached 81.9% capacity in the 3rd quarter of 2016. The figure confirms the positive performance of the Greek accommodation industry for the months of September and August. The data shows a 5.8% rise in comparison to last year’s respective term.

The Ministry of Defence has a regular problem with the preparation of its public procurement orders. This became clear after it stopped three public procurement orders in the last month.

Perushtitsa's Mayor faces between 3 and 10 years in prison, a BGN 20,000 fine and dismissal.

Regional Prosecutor Rumen Popov explained the corruption scheme at a briefing of the Regional Prosecutor's Office - Plovdiv.

Greek manufacturing activity shrank for the fourth month in a row in May as a big drop in new orders was accompanied by job losses and a fall in production, a survey showed on Wednesday.

While hotel occupancy rates continued to decline in November across Turkey, especially in Istanbul, only Antalya hotels saw a sharp increase, thanks to the G-20 Summit as well as several local and international events, according to a report by the Turkish Touristic Hotels and Investors Assocation (TUROB). 

Turkey's hotel occupancy rates saw double-digit decline in September despite a rise in local tourists during a 9-day Eid holiday, said the Turkish Touristic Hotels and Investors Association (TUROB) in a written statement on Oct. 30. 

When machinery and equipment, intermediate goods, raw material, anything that a business requires for its production (i.e. its supply chain) are owned and produced by the same company, it is called 100 percent vertical integration. This means the production and sharing of all values related to the product.  

A new wave of violence in Turkey's Kurdish conflict has prompted Turkey's military and defense procurement authorities to shop for a batch of reconnaissance aircraft which they hope will augment the military's fight against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets.

Turkey has seen the steepest decrease in hotel occupancy rates in Europe, excluding Russia, according to STR Global's June figures. 

The hotel occupancy rates were announced as 68.6 percent in June, a 7.6 percent decrease from the same month of 2014.