Procurement

Whether supply managers accept or reject the advice they receive from colleagues during information exchanges can have a significant impact on the cohesion of sourcing teams.

Bob Trebilcock, the executive editor of Supply Chain Management Review, recently interviewed Ninian Wilson, global supply chain director, and CEO of the Vodafone Procurement Company about Vodafone’s digital journey.

Learn how to mitigate the risks in your critical inbound supply of direct materials, and apply real-time prescriptive analytics to optimize decision making, increase resilience, and unlock enormous business value for all parties.

When buyers and suppliers are at loggerheads, how a buyer reacts, and the message that reaction sends, has an impact on how suppliers respond

This white paper contains insights from recent interviews with leading organizations on how they are responding to the new coronavirus crisis.

There’s much to learn from the toilet paper shortage of spring 2020

Vendor management is time-consuming and tedious. Blockchain presents an opportunity to streamline the process.

Tom Derry, CEO of the Institute for Supply Management, talks about how nearly all ISM members are dealing with disruptions stemming from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The North American TL transportation market is exceptionally large and highly complex; traditional methods for procurement, while very beneficial for many decades, are starting to fray at the edges.

Learn how implementing an MRO solution the right way saves time and money from a senior manger senior manager of customer solutions at MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Survey illustrates concerns of procurement leaders – representing companies with a combined annual turnover of $5 trillion – and provides exclusive insights into the key challenges and opportunities impacting procurement.

It goes without saying that day-to-day cost pressures come with the territory in the procurement world. But that sentiment takes on a more heightened feel, when seeing those pressures from the perspectives of chief procurement officers (CPO), in light of myriad economic- and trade-related challenges, among other factors.

Respondents cited an economic downturn as the No. 1 ris, with 46% identifying it as a top risk impacting procurement and 70% indicating they are very likely to cut costs over the next year.

The effort to combat supply chain violations remain ongoing, and legislation has laid the groundwork to take on the issue of slavery in all its guises.

Traditional sourcing often fails to deliver. Here's why.