Recognizing the importance of strategic procurement, Dutch chemical company Royal DSM – a global, purpose-led leader in health and nutrition, applying bioscience to improve the health of people, ...

There’s been much talk of federal spending this year. Two of us have written on the flow of federal resources, and how locals prepare for major shifts. As we have noted, a critical part of federal ...

A report by the NBS indicates that if 5 to 10 percent of unemployed persons are in the procurement sector, 130,000 jobs could ...

When we write about supplier diversity models that should be scaled, adopted, and adapted, our first inclination is usually to focus on state and local governments, or innovative private sector ...

In February, Governing released a report ranking 39 states based on their procurement policies. They were ranked in 10 categories, including their use of technology, how they engage with vendors and ...

Hurricane Katrina taught the Homeland Security Department important lessons about procurement, the department’s acting chief procurement officer said Dec. 15. The devastating August storm showed the ...

We've all heard the stories about hundred-dollar hammers and thousand-dollar toilet seats. Government procurement programs are out of control, plagued by fraud, waste and crooked contractors. There ...

Finally, one lesson emerging from the drawn-out KC-135 tanker replacement duel is for the Pentagon to be a sharper customer by setting spending limits and prioritizing requirements. According to Shay ...

Not surprisingly, up until now lean procurement has heavily focused on cost as it is a significant percentage of a company’s revenue (often ranging from 50% to 70% of sales) and to some degree on ...

Warfare has driven the design and construction of some of the biggest and most complex machines of their time. No contemporary device matched a sailing warship of the 18th century, a 1900s dreadnought ...

December 25, 2022: Two procurement lessons learned from the Ukraine War were the stockpiles of weapons built up in case there is a war tend to be much lower than needed. To make matters worse, ...

UD Exchange, powered by JAGGAER, is an end to end solution for eProcurement. You may hear the solution referred to as Source to Settle, Procure to Pay, or Req to Check. It helps everyone purchasing on ...