Balancing Smarter MRO Purchasing and Inventory Management
A meticulously planned and flawlessly executed MRO purchasing and management strategy is a thing of beauty. Not only does it keep costs low by eliminating off-contract buys and rush delivery...
What Is eProcurement and Why Your Company Should Care?
COVID-19 forced businesses of every kind to automate, digitize, and adopt technologies to overcome the constraints it exerted on the global supply chain. The pandemic and its aftermath highlighted the...
Optimizing E-commerce with Big Data and Human Know-How
An effectively managed MRO supply chain creates efficiencies that drive and optimize E-commerce. Commitment to big data and a dedicated supply chain partner to manage and integrate it, will give...
Delivering Procurement Value – when “Home Runs” are not easy to hit!
Posted by on Fri, 05/25/2018 It doesn’t matter where you are in your procurement career, we all hit that patch of work where the “low hanging fruit”, is higher in...
Going for Gold – Mining Indirect Spend and Services
Posted by on Thu, 02/22/2018 It’s early in the year and as we embrace the “Gold” with the Winter Olympics, we often hold persistence and excellence themes in pursuit of...
Why Streamlining the MRO Ordering Process is a Necessity
Manufacturing companies are increasingly beginning to understand that indirect materials—maintenance repair and operations (MRO) materials in particular—are well deserving of serious attention. For the typical manufacturer, MRO takes a back...
Posted by on Wed, 01/07/2015 Overview The secret is out. FedEx and UPS are making a paradigm shift in the way they price small parcels, and it will have a...
