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.

With state and local jurisdictions everywhere facing continued budget difficulties, strategic sourcing could play a pivotal role in government purchasing practices. State officials already involved in ...

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 ...

Strategic Sourcing 101: Business-focused outsourcing Over the past two decades, corporations have engaged in major IT outsourcing initiatives to improve service while reducing costs, sometimes handing ...

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 ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quantzig, a leader in delivering scalable analytics solutions and data science services, today announced the completion of its recent article that sheds light on the role of ...

Get your outsourcing strategy right from the start - or risk failure... Companies that follow a formal process to define their outsourcing strategy stand a better chance of achieving expected cost and ...

The concept of strategic sourcing can mean different things to different people, but essentially it is a more comprehensive, researched, planned and measured approach to procurement. As governments at ...

The concept of strategic sourcing can mean different things to different people, but essentially it is a more comprehensive, researched, planned and measured approach to procurement. As governments at ...

Supply chain troubles can delay build-outs of the best-designed AI data centers, but executives can mitigate the risk.