Faced with mounting regulations and exposure to risk, the team at Fortune 500 electronics distribution company Avnet embarked on a program to organize, control and optimize their contracting...
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Setting the Sourcing, Contract Management and Supplier Management Table – Dining with Procurement, Not with IT
3 Principles to Deliver Transparency Across the Supply Base
Without proper insight into its contracts, a company cannot effectively control its top or bottom line. Nor can it easily access the data needed to comply with legal and regulatory requirements...
Faced with funding constraints, fast-paced business environments, and ever-evolving procurement needs, businesses cannot rely on a onesize-fits-all approach to deploying and managing best-in-...
4 Tactics for Achieving Operational Excellence in Any Economic Climate
For most companies, the CPO’s list of top goals includes tasks like: maximize savings, focus on sustainability, manage supplier performance, and minimize supplier risk to ensure supply chain...
Procurement teams have done a superb job over the past few years in achieving savings and containing costs – often with fewer colleagues to share the workload. Now corporate management is...
As the global economy continues to struggle, procurement teams continue to be tasked with looking for ways to control costs. Other recent global events such as natural disasters and commodity...
In October 2011, at the Hyatt Bellevue, SIG hosted the Global Leadership Summit.
SIG has extracted, from each session related to Strategic Sourcing, key takeaways –...