The University of Tennessee survey identified 10 activities in the supply chain that can make companies more competitive. The university's supply chain management research surveyed 163 professiona...

Mercuri, a sales training company, interviewed 700 managers, directors and procurement experts from 14 industries in 14 countries about their procurement practices and their views on their sales ar...

The economic outlook will increase expectations of price cuts from suppliers. The resulting tensions make it regrettably unlikely that cooperation will evolve towards partnership. European firms a...

The UK government has decided to appoint Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) in key government departments and agencies to improve procurement, following a proposal by former Deputy Prime Minister Lo...

Strategy: a planned series of actions to achieve something Procurement: pre-planned shopping, collecting. Strategic procurement is not the day-to-day purchase of services and goods. Strategic sou...