Most companies spend millions, yet few truly see where it all goes. Some of it is tracked, some is managed, and some slips through the cracks. That visibility gap is exactly what Spend Under ...

When a multi-billion dollar transportation and airline company sought to get its arms around its unwieldy procurement operation, it turned to a tried-and-true tool to do it: the balanced scorecard. It ...

The concept of paying services contractors for performance has won wide support in principle, but putting it into practice is a bigger challenge. For several years now, the Bush administration has ...

MIAMI & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--World-class procurement organizations now operate at 21 percent lower labor costs than peers and have 29 percent fewer staff, according to new world-class performance ...

In the business world, risk is ubiquitous. Costs rise. Sales slip. Products malfunction. Delivery windows crack. But despite these enduring realities, risk's nature and scope have accelerated in the ...

The learning environment is changing in our schools, and technology is playing a big role. How schools are acquiring their resources can be as affecting as the changes in instructional practices used ...

Over the last decade, significant changes in the business environment have had a profound and lasting influence on how supply chains operate. The current business environment is characterised by an ...

Transformation is a topic that comes up in almost every conversation I have with supply chain managers these days. Executives from companies as diverse as J&J Vision Care, the division of Johnson & ...

For owners and managers of industrial facilities, optimizing asset performance in a dynamic and complex operation environment is a constant challenge—trying to maximize performance while maintaining ...