Local governments are under significant fiscal pressure due to rising inflation, deferred maintenance and infrastructure investments, staffing shortages, and constituent demands for digital services.

If you’re a procurement leader, developing improved business strategies should involve advancing technology, increasing digital intelligence, and improving collaboration across in-house teams. Given ...

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Can strategic procurement be a catalyst of change in business? Two enterprise practitioners believe it can, and they have seen how enabling and embracing data-driven procurement with a strategic ...

Many business leaders are being forced to reimagine their organizations' supply chain strategies. In my view, procurement is no longer regarded as a back-office cost center—rather, it's a strategic ...

Getting the right materials at the right time and price is incredibly important for any successful business. Material procurement affects everything from product quality to company profits. Smart ...

Mega-events such as the Olympics, the World Cup or music festivals are fixed-duration occasions with global outreach and ...

Since 2020 and the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve all experienced how an unexpected event can have long-lasting impacts on operations worldwide. One of the biggest ongoing impacts of the ...

Once treated as a secondary objective, sustainability has quickly become a central pillar of business strategy. Procurement has quietly become the most powerful lever of this shift — not by policy, ...

Procurement is a complex discipline that goes beyond selecting the right products for the right applications. Buyers also have to balance budgets, value, product quality, and delivery times when ...

Procurement is evolving beyond cost-cutting into a strategic driver of efficiency, innovation, and supplier collaboration. Leaders are embracing digital tools, data-driven benchmarking, and refined ...

In advance of the ANA's upcoming Advertising Financial Management Conference in Orlando, I had a wide-ranging conversation ...