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 ...

Ask most executives to name their top cloud providers or logistics partners, and they’ll likely have an answer ready. But when it comes to where their lithium, copper, or rare earths come from, ...

Driven by transformation trends and geopolitical volatilities, companies must reshape their sourcing strategies. Across all manufacturing sectors the focus is shifting towards securing access to vital ...

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 ...

Category management is not just a new name for strategic sourcing. Rather, strategic sourcing is one of the tools used by category teams to manage procurement expenditure to achieve mission value.

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 ...

The Office of Management and Budget will require agencies to start analyzing their buying habits and using the data to cut better deals with vendors by Oct. 1. In a May 20 letter to top federal ...

It’s becoming more obvious by the day: Many companies’ laptop and desktop fleets are quickly becoming outdated, a consequence of their decision to hold off on PC refreshes in order to conserve cash ...

Increasingly, consumers are demanding traceable, ethical products and greater responsibility and transparency from the companies that make them. Additionally, we are seeing a high level of awareness ...

After an audit found that agencies have made very little use of strategic sourcing, DOD and other agencies point to some reforms, pledge to make more. DOD GAO Procurement Veterans Affairs An audit ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- BSF, a seafood sourcing and distribution company, will exhibit at Seafood Expo North America, taking place March 15–17 at the Boston Convention and ...