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 ...

Procurement involves identifying and agreeing to terms for the acquisition of goods, services, or works from an external source, often via a competitive bidding process. involving constrained decision ...

Editor’s note: This article first appeared on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Global Supply Chain Institute’s blog. It is being reprinted with permission. You can read the original post here.