A functional and cohesive procurement policy is vital to improving profitability. While clear standard operating procedures are important, it takes more to create efficiencies. The procurement ...

Unlike commercial communication equipment—where rapid innovation and open competition drive pricing—defence communication systems operate within rigid government procurement frameworks. These ...

Centralizing purchasing becomes increasingly more important the larger a small business grows. Most importantly, a decentralized purchasing structure in which individual departments are responsible ...

When I sit down with procurement leaders, they are often facing the same challenge: Their departments are stuck in a tactical data processing mode with limited resources and increasing ...

The key roles of procurement and finance departments are changing, morphing into a new, more integrated process. Not everybody is happy about the merging functions, but I think it's strange that ...