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 ...

The procurement process is composed of symbiotic moving parts. When components don’t communicate efficiently, breaks in the supply chain occur, causing costly errors, lost time and missed ...

The process captures each request, evaluates it for completeness, priority, and policy compliance, then directs it through the appropriate approval and purchasing workflow. This intake stage happens ...

As the cloud increasingly dominates both public and private sector operations, its impact on procurement has become a topic of focus in recent years. According to experts in the field, migrating to ...

Stefan Pollack is president of The Pollack Group and an adjunct professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The request for proposal (RFP) process is designed to ensure ...

Eldar Tuvey, is CEO and cofounder of Vertice, a spend optimization platform that saves companies up to 25% on their SaaS and cloud costs. The turbulence of recent years has underscored the critical ...

Departments/schools can request that Purchasing and Strategic Sourcing perform a competitive bid or negotiate on their behalf. In addition to simply providing advice to departments and schools if they ...

Artificial intelligence is a hot commodity, but government agencies need to be cautious about buying it, experts say. The biggest consideration is security. “It’s a challenge. There’s no other way to ...

With Euna’s full-cycle procurement solution, Arlington Independent School District streamlined every stage of the procurement process, from sourcing and contracting management to purchasing and ...

Imagine this scenario. Your procurement team starts Monday morning with 47 unread emails, a dozen Slack messages about urgent purchases, and three sticky notes from Friday's hallway conversations.