Strategic sourcing skills play an important role in the cost structure and competitiveness of small and large businesses. These skills involve analyzing high-volume purchases and developing long-term ...

Affinity's Co-Founder, Ray Zhou, wants to bring relationship intelligence to the world because every opportunity begins with a relationship. Venture capital (VC) deal-sourcing today is tough, and a ...

Government will develop a sourcing strategy for departments over the summer, following calls from the National Audit Office (NAO) to have a more strategic approach to digital procurement. While being ...

For years, “sourcing” has been just another word for procurement—a financially material, but strategically peripheral, corporate function. Now, globalization, aided by rapid technology innovation, is ...

There are a variety of reasons for executives today to question the practice of global sourcing, but it always seems to come back to one word -- quality. Valid reasons or not, many of them are ...

It’s becoming more obvious by the day: Many companies’ laptop and desktop fleets are quickly becoming outdated, a consequence of their decision to hold off on PC refreshes in order to conserve cash ...

Over the past two decades, the main mission of procurement has expanded from cost maintenance and supply assurance to decision making and customer service, with supply chain management and analytics ...

Early in the course of a product design and manufacturing organization's strategic sourcing project it is common to have a kickoff meeting that includes the engineering team. It is the opportunity for ...

Earlier this quarter, Mondelez International experienced financial pressures as rising cocoa prices, driven by crop yield concerns in West Africa, affected one of its key input costs. In response to ...