A functional and cohesive procurement policy is vital to improving profitability. While clear standard operating procedures are important, it takes more to create efficiencies. The procurement ...

Procurement department organizational structures often -- but not always -- reflect the organizational structure of your business. Additional factors, such as communication patterns, the size of your ...

Among the countless insights to emerge in this era of sudden and accelerating digital transformation, your enterprise may have experienced the fragility of a supplier ecosystem that’s easily disrupted ...

After some implementation delays, the final rule updating Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) performance measures took effect April 1, 2021. The final rule, titled, “Medicare and Medicaid Programs: ...

"GPO's sit between the suppliers and the customers," Chris Sawchuk, principal and global procurement advisory group practice leader at the Hackett Group, told sister publication Supply Chain Dive in ...

Skil-Care Corp. has launched a committed purchasing program for the national network of senior living and care locations ...

The OIG, in Advisory Opinion 12-01, approved a proposed purchasing structure involving a GPO that would be wholly owned by an entity that also wholly owns many of the potential GPO participants, and ...

In our first post on the this topic, we highlighted the implications of the $62-billion U.S. government program to incentivize utilities to embrace best practices for streamlining procurement ...