Centralizing purchasing becomes increasingly more important the larger a small business grows. Most importantly, a decentralized purchasing structure in which individual departments are responsible ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Who said change is a bad thing? When it comes to supply chain purchasing, healthcare has become the picture of efficiency. A flurry of mergers and acquisitions among U.S. hospitals and health systems ...

How much are we saving? Contracts that were renegotiated and the savings for the county: ThyssenKrupp: Elevator and escalator service, annual savings of $45,000* ProSource: Copier lease buyout, ...

Accounts payable (AP) and the cloud may hold the secret to providing quality healthcare. At least that's what Molina Healthcare--an organization that provides healthcare to financially vulnerable ...

Wendy McMahon is a freelance writer and general tech geek who has been writing about technology for over 10 years. Follower her on Twitter at @wendymcmahon. A mess of IT procurement issues — redundant ...

When it comes to financial management, companies are forever walking the line between giving finance teams complete control and visibility over spend and allowing employees to move quickly without ...

Real estate owners, investors, and the teams entrusted to manage all asset types rely on vendors to keep their operations running. But few give much thought to how those vendors are sourced or held ...

The sixth round of China's centralized procurement program for high-value medical consumables, targeting 12 types of ...

A new centralized procurement system in Serbia is helping save the Serbian Health Insurance Fund 25 million Euro this year. This system, introduced as a pilot project this year, is helping to reduce ...