The Wall Street Journal gave purchasing frontpage play in 1992 when the newspaper featured J. Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua. His aggressive tactics had delivered a desperately needed

Recapturing your Supply Chain Data

Purchasing and supply management is rarely a top priority for school districts in the United States, but our research suggests that it should be. As a result of state budget crises, school districts a

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Founded in 1892, four years after the invention of the telephone, Canada’s Nortel Networks Inc., known from the mid-1970s until recently as Northern Telecom, produced switches

Although the world's big carmakers have had global reach for decades, they have been slow to take advantage of low wages in China and India to supply inexpensive parts to their assembly plants

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We believe that the Internet and related technologies will help change the role of the purchasing department, from a transaction-oriented function to a more managerial

With companies dead set on cutting costs and becoming more efficient, it’s no surprise that corporate procurement has come under the microscope. Indeed, many companies have made

Procurement consistently generates the bulk of near-term savings in merger-integration efforts. Since a high percentage of mergers fail to meet announced synergy goals,