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

You can improve business performance by aligning the objectives of purchasing management with your business strategies. At the strategic level, purchasing decisions affect profitability and business ...

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 ...

Dublin, March 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Procurement Outsourcing - Global Strategic Business Report" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global market for ...

The most significant effect of strategic purchasing operations is creating a competitive advantage over your competitors. Strategic purchasing is a process that develops supply relationships between ...

The concept of strategic sourcing can mean different things to different people, but essentially it is a more comprehensive, researched, planned and measured approach to procurement. As governments at ...

Founded in 2021, Berlin-based akirolabs empowers procurement organisations to unlock 4-5x higher sustainable business value beyond traditional cost savings. The funding round was led by HTGF, OTB ...

The rebrand reflects the organization’s strategic evolution from a procurement-focused provider to a comprehensive, ...

Information from the markets can be used for a variety of business decisions that include strategic procurement management. Supply markets information can only be meaningful if it is collected with a ...