PROCUREMENT BLOG

When you’re part of the team responsible for filling several large floating dining rooms with anywhere from 100-1200 people of […]

Someone very wise once made an insightful statement about budgets. To paraphrase: budgets tell us what we can’t afford. The […]

MOVING FROM RISK TO REWARD Attempting to separate potential danger from potential opportunity is like trying to remove an egg […]

Before we begin with this recipe comparison, what is soup? It’s a lot of ingredients collected in one pot that […]

Here’s a topic from folklore to debate: the elderly (exact age undetermined) should be put on an ice floe and […]

New Year’s is the most popular time to transform a current reality into the promise of something better, and this […]

Procurement is spending company money using the most cost-effective technique to obtain every product and service the business needs, by […]

Procurement’s three-way relationship with Negotiations and Contracts can use these words as its mantra:

You’re up against unrealistic deadlines, you can’t seem to complete a single task before new ones pile up, and the […]

Think about the word ‘procurement’. What adjectives come to mind? Smart, capable, mighty, heroic…yes, that’s exactly right! Keeping in line […]

If you ever want to flip a coin about a certain topic, just consider purchasing from a Contract versus issuing a […]

There’s an expression that should be applied to maintaining supplier relationships in procurement: only a fool trips on what’s behind them. Now […]