Since 2020 and the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve all experienced how an unexpected event can have long-lasting impacts on operations worldwide. One of the biggest ongoing impacts of the ...

Local governments are under significant fiscal pressure due to rising inflation, deferred maintenance and infrastructure investments, staffing shortages, and constituent demands for digital services.

For every business, accounts payable (AP) is a costly and time-consuming expense. Every organization, no matter how small, has expenses. Processing can be inefficient ...

Many business leaders are being forced to reimagine their organizations' supply chain strategies. In my view, procurement is no longer regarded as a back-office cost center—rather, it's a strategic ...

Merger and acquisition activity in the healthcare sector continues at a brisk pace as organizations seek to decrease their costs, expand service offerings and enhance their market presence. Strategic ...

Hospitals must fuse supply strategy with clinical quality metrics to meet Joint Commission goals and avoid patient harm and CMS accreditation loss.

Against the backdrop of a major U.S. naval deployment to the South Atlantic and a dramatic name change from the Department of Defense to the Department of War; most Americans would think the technical ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. State and local governments are turning to electronic procurement ...

Procurement is a complex discipline that goes beyond selecting the right products for the right applications. Buyers also have to balance budgets, value, product quality, and delivery times when ...

Generative artificial intelligence is coming, and the ability of procurement organizations to adopt it quickly, safety and securely could be key to their success in 2023 and 2024. The market for ...

While sometimes used interchangeably, it’s important to differentiate sustainability and ESG. Sustainability is how ...

Governments buy a lot of stuff. Every year, one out of every three dollars governments spend goes toward purchasing something -- from photo copier ink to new vehicle fleets -- to help provide services ...