Twenty-five years ago supplier development was the hot topic in supply management. Corporations were starting to staff-up and offer assistance in improving supplier manufacturing efficiency. It wasn’t ...

This column will focus on a topic that could cause some discomfort among companies in the process of launching a new/updated supplier development function since it ...

Moving beyond typical procurement cost-based, contractual relationships, Hewlett-Packard has worked with a small number of key suppliers on a strategic supplier development program designed to "create ...

The 2024 Pensacola Supplier Development Exchange event is set for Tuesday at the Sanders Beach-Corinne Jones Resource Center with plans to bring another wave of networking, marketing and learning ...

Integrating your major suppliers into the new product development process can shorten development times and reduce risk. A strategy to perform such an integration effectively has to ensure suppliers ...

Black suppliers are notoriously overlooked and underrepresented when securing high-value contracts. But one program is aiming to disrupt the cycle. The National Business League ® (NBL)’s initiative, ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Todd A. Gray has spent the past 20 years helping large ...

The University at Buffalo believes that a commitment to supplier diversity is good business and a benefit for the communities in which we serve. “University at Buffalo is committed to increasing ...