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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Inspiration can come from many places, but maybe it’s time to spend more effort on studying nature and what it can teach us about supply chain innovation. Tariffs will have a major impact on your ...