procurement

“Some executives used to think of procurement as the place you send staff away in order to never see them again.” ~ Carlos Mena, Remko van Hoek, Martin Christopher, Leading…

Some procurement and supply chain trends are so pervasive that it is easy to stop questioning the logic behind them. The benefits associated with small suppliers is a perfect example.…

Collecting data is part of what makes the big players like Google and Facebook so successful. The amount of time that users spend on Facebook declined by 50 million hours…

In 1897, an eight-year old girl named Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the Editor of the New York Sun, a prominent New York City newspaper of the time. She…

Businesses are continually being threatened by random unexpected events including natural disasters, violent political uprisings and

One man’s hobby is another man’s job… Earlier this year, Nik Wallenda successfully walked along a 2-inch-wide tightrope across the Grand Canyon, 1,500 feet above the ground amidst swirling 30…

From the exposure of fatal working conditions in Bangladesh to horse-play across Europe’s food industry, how businesses go about sourcing supplies has come under increasing scrutiny in recent times. While…

Although the concept of wearable-technology has been around for some time, it seems as though this vintage fashion is resurging to a whole new level of popularity. From the original…

A central theme to the majority of material planning projects is the optimization of procurement planning which, when done correctly, can help solve the balancing act between low inventory levels…