Everyone knows what a Sales Manager, Operations Director and a Logistics Manager does. Not many people understand what Procurement is and what we do, as can be evidenced when I meet people at gatherings of professionals at events such as expat meetups or non-industry...
Managing tail spend has been an important topic for sourcing and supply chain professionals for the past several years. In most companies, external spending has a Pareto-like distribution – the largest 20% of suppliers (by dollar volume) account for about 80% of the...