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 ...

Local governments are under significant fiscal pressure due to rising inflation, deferred maintenance and infrastructure investments, staffing shortages, and constituent demands for digital services.

According to Deloitte’s Global Chief Procurement Officer Survey, 61 percent of procurement leaders delivered a better year-over-year savings performance in 2017, yet only one in four believe they’re ...

NASA has developed an objective-based procurement strategy to advance its ongoing Moon to Mars initiative, according to Karla Jackson, senior procurement executive and deputy chief acquisition officer ...

When a multi-billion dollar transportation and airline company sought to get its arms around its unwieldy procurement operation, it turned to a tried-and-true tool to do it: the balanced scorecard. It ...

Imagine a strategic meeting is in progress inside your organization, focused on speeding up the market release of a product for competitive advantage. The chief procurement officer proposes an ...

Maintaining an efficient and effective procurement process plays an essential role in meeting the operational and financial needs of the University. The Office of Strategic Procurement facilitates ...

Once treated as a secondary objective, sustainability has quickly become a central pillar of business strategy. Procurement has quietly become the most powerful lever of this shift — not by policy, ...