In today's complex government contracting landscape, the role of a procurement specialist is essential to ensure that agencies acquire the necessary goods and services while adhering to regulations.

Departments and schools should adjust their internal business processes to be appropriately aligned with the functionality of NUFinancials. Departments and schools also need to assess the core ...

Direct procurement needs to be involved in all of a company's business strategy decisions from the very beginning, says Georg Roesch, vice president of direct procurement strategy at Jaggaer. Direct ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SpendEdge, a global procurement intelligence advisory firm, has announced the completion of their most recent whitepaper on the role of procurement transformation in achieving ...

In the last 50 years, purchasing has transformed from a transactional role into one that’s more strategic, aligned with long-term business requirements. Until mid-1970, the purchasing function played ...

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.

For decades, buyers of industrial-machinery components focused mainly on price. Today, procurement patterns are gravitating toward best value and total cost of ownership (TCO). Yet even as this ...

Barbara Allen does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

For many years, the role of the procurement department in creating competitive advantage was overlooked. Rarely was it considered a significant source of cost savings or a driver of organizational ...