Even before the COVID-19 pandemic underscored the critical skills gap across the procurement and logistics landscape, a report by the American Productivity & Quality Center put a pin in the talent ...

Most organisations operate with purchasing and supply functions that are clerical. From my personal assessment, the causes of non-recognition of purchasing and supply as strategic emanate from five ...

Somewhere in the evolution of the modern corporation, somebody decided that the people who spent the money should not be the same people who controlled how it was spent. Left unchecked, departments ...

It’s that time of year again, when we feature the Top 25 supply chains from Gartner. What I enjoy most about this research is the window it provides into where supply chains are going next: After all, ...

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When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

The hospitality industry heavily relies on suppliers to run its day-to-day operations, which makes procurement an extremely vital function, and over the years the role of the procurement department ...

If there is anything that we have been taught over the years, it is that we live in an unpredictable age. Disruptive events continue to rock supply chains off their traditional foundations. Things can ...

An APQC report outlines critical skills gaps that face today’s procurement professionals. The recently released report, “Identifying and Developing the Future Skills Needed in Sourcing and Procurement ...