The headline says it all !

Article from Supply Management is very interesting, but not sure about the last fact about Women - I think that there are more us !

The rising profile of procurement has seen the number of UK purchasing managers more than double in a decade. 



According to the Office of National Statistics’ (ONS) Labour Force Survey
 the number of people identified as “purchasing managers” has increased every year, from 24,000 in 2001 to 53,000 this year, an increase of 121 per cent.

In 2008, 39,000 purchasing managers were recorded. This figure increased by just 2,000 in 2009. This year, however, the number jumped by a further 12,000.

Between 2001 and 2003, the number of female purchasing managers in the UK was too small to record. Current figures show that 19,000 of the 53,000 purchasing managers are women.