Did you know that efficient procurement practices can add to your organization’s competitive advantage? Before I explain how, I want to start out by talking about Porter’s Five Forces of Competitive ...

In 2023, Oklahoma’s Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES) took a major step toward modernizing its procurement oversight, implementing a process intelligence platform from Celonis. Since ...

For many departments, the past 18–24 months presented many challenges while they continued to provide fire/rescue services to their community. The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic caused departments to ...

Investing in the right business software is one of the most important decisions a business can make. Here are 6 tips to get it right. There should be a software program specifically designed to help ...

Procurement and Payment Services has implemented a new streamlined process to document purchasing decisions made by departments and schools. Staff no longer need to choose Bid Documentation Form (BD-1 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Bendor-Samuel is founder & executive chairman of Everest Group. The source-to-pay and procure-to-pay functions in the ...

Purchasing cards, or p-cards, let your employees spend money on your business’s behalf. Companies use purchasing cards, or p-cards, for recurring, predictable expenses. These may include office ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SpendEdge, a leading provider of procurement market intelligence solutions, has announced the completion of their engagement on identifying different types of procurement ...

Stefan Pollack is president of The Pollack Group and an adjunct professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The request for proposal (RFP) process is designed to ensure ...

Bid protests against a procurement process often center around claims of bias that result in flawed selection decisions. For example, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) put out a report in ...

What's the best way to increase and make EV purchasing and ownership easier? Educate potential buyers, of course. However, there's an arguably more important piece of the pie that few people may be ...