Organizations are revamping their procurement policies to be more sustainable and efficient.

This article discusses automated purchase order processing and looks at a number of productivity benefits, from reduced cycle time to an increase in the number of purchase orders processed per employee.

APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking  in procurement shows that organizations with category management programs have greater efficiency among procurement employees and thus need fewer full-time equivalent (FTE) ...

These slides from a Webinar produced by APQC and the Association for Manufacturing Excellence look at supplier category management, which is related to supplier relationship management.

This article covers the details of how to design a Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) program.

APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking results show that organizations that have initiated category management programs in procurement show significantly shorter lead times with suppliers.

This survey report from IBM shows that supply chain managers can contribute to their organization's bottom line performance by taking sourcing measures that cut costs and deliver efficiencies.

This article looks at how successful companies select and manage suppliers during difficult economic times.