You can improve business performance by aligning the objectives of purchasing management with your business strategies. At the strategic level, purchasing decisions affect profitability and business ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

Companies are increasingly struggling with procurement — the strategic process of acquiring goods and services to execute tasks across the organization. According to a recent survey from procurement ...

Procurement involves identifying and agreeing to terms for the acquisition of goods, services, or works from an external source, often via a competitive bidding process. involving constrained decision ...

Back in 2014, Stan Garber and Alex Yakubovich set out to reinvent the request for proposals (RFP) process with the launch of Scout RFP, which provides a cloud-based sourcing solution designed to help ...

Over the years I have been fortunate to collect a wealth of both academic knowledge and professional experience in sourcing management. I have witnessed how the perception of procurement contribution ...

Supply chain management software is big business, and is set to get even bigger. But it looks like procurement management software, specifically, is growing at an even faster rate. “The provider ...

ConstructivIQ, an artificial intelligence-driven integrated procurement, planning and material tracking software tool, has been deployed enterprise-wide by contractor DPR Construction since early ...

Governments buy a lot of stuff. Every year, one out of every three dollars governments spend goes toward purchasing something -- from photo copier ink to new vehicle fleets -- to help provide services ...

Editor’s note: This article first appeared on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Global Supply Chain Institute’s blog. It is being reprinted with permission. You can read the original post here.

As Managing Director and World Bank Group Chief Administrative Officer since February 2016, Shaolin is responsible for a number of critical functions of the institution including organizational ...