Procurement accounts for more than 10 percent of U.S. federal government spending. Yet the extent of competition for a procurement contract is not very robust, with contracts rarely having many bids ...

For any organization, managing procurement on a grand scale is a delicate balance. For E&I, a 90-year-old U.S.-based group purchasing organization (GPO) catering to thousands of educational ...

Indulge me for a minute, while I lead a cheer for our profession. I wrote my column for the January 2021 issue of SCMR one Sunday morning after watching the first trucks full of vaccine roll out of a ...

NEW DELHI: The delays in the supply of the engines from the US have attracted the penalty clause. Also, lessons from the Rafale fighter aircraft Procurement process have triggered the government to ...

Over the past two decades, the adoption of building information modeling (BIM) has steadily grown and become a more common industry practice. Traditionally utilized in the design and modeling phases ...

The manner in which industrial products are currently resourced is no longer fit for purpose. In terms of procurement and supply chain complexity, the traditional seller/buyer model perpetuates ...

This paper discusses about the challenges faced by commercial and industrial consumers (C&I) in adoption of renewable energy. Due to competitive prices of renewable energy, there are tendencies by the ...

Reducing costs ranks as the biggest priority for chief procurement officers (CPOs) around the world, but risk management, technology, and talent are also top of mind, according to the Deloitte Global ...

T'puram: The state govt proposed a cooperative and farmer-centric alternative system for paddy procurement. Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan chaired a high-level meeting and approved the implementation ...