World-class procurement organizations have streamlined their internal processes, capitalized on existing savings opportunities, developed advanced strategic sourcing programs, and consolidated at...
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There are only so many ways you can type a category such as “MRO” into a search engine before the results provide the same white papers and advertisements. How can...
In an environment of uncertainty and economic volatility, it is paramount that the finance function have the ability to track non-core, or indirect, costs and document savings on these...
For decades, outsourcing customers and service providers have operated under the flawed assumption that the time, expense and relationship damage associated with litigation or arbitration would...
Most outsourcing relationships run into some kind of trouble at some point. How well you handle that trouble determines how much value is destroyed (for both sides)...
As more responsibilities for innovation and operations are offloaded to third parties, procurement organizations are shifting their focus toward supplier collaboration and innovation. Interest in...
While there are literally thousands of detailed questions associated with outsourcing, we have found these four questions to be the most frequently asked by clients beginning the journey....
Includes challenges by phase in the outsourcing process and how to best approach each issue to maximize business value.
According to The Hackett Group’s 2017 Key Issues Study, 84% of procurement organizations believe that digital transformation will fundamentally change the way their services are delivered over the...
Just as “wearable” technology has come into vogue as a way to constantly monitor the vital signs of our own personal health, procurement organizations need visibility in to the real-time...