Aligning strategy, supply chain, and finance have never been more relevant. Today’s business environment exists within an increasingly dynamic, connected, and consumer-oriented economy. These shifting ...

Lopez moved aggressively, putting existing supply contracts out to bid. Pitted against one another—and dependent on GM for their own survival—suppliers competed fiercely for business. In just two ...

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the idea that the supply chain could be a growth driver for a company was just in its ...

Leaders emphasized that current organizational structures often act as a barrier to procurement value contribution. Despite ...

MHI’s ProMat 2025 saw a record-shattering number of registered manufacturing and supply chain professionals, reaching a total of 52,223. The event, held… Tariffs will have a major impact on your ...

Let’s take our annual deep dive into the nation’s Top 50 trucking companies—25 LTL and 25 truckload (TL)—to see what the best ...

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, procurement professionals are more crucial than ever. However, organizations ...

Growing technologies such as AI offer organizations an opportunity to drive efficiency within procurement. To ensure they fully benefit from these technologies, organizations must standardize ...

With the current inputs of costs and FTEs for procurement, one way to improve the output (productivity) is through automation. APQC again looked at its benchmarking data to determine the current state ...

The wave of AI technologies is driving both excitement and skepticism in the supply chain professional community. The promise of catching the excitement of a rogue wave fueled by numerous ...

The advent of AI as a widely available business tool has given rise to numerous applications that are proliferating at a ...

This Insights column is an update to one I wrote more than seven years ago—“Advocate for responsible outsourcing” (November ...