Medical-device manufacturers are being pushed towards tighter oversight of suppliers just as the definition of a “critical” vendor is widening. The FDA’s Quality Management System Regulation took effect on 2 February 2026, aligning US device quality requirements with ISO 13485:2016, while an IMDRF consultation on…
Digital tools have overtaken people as procurement leaders’ preferred engine of value creation for the first time in 15 years, according to Procurement Leaders’ latest sounding of its chief procurement officer community on 7 September 2026 (procurementleaders.com). That finding, drawn from conversations with more than…
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Achilles is trying to sell a remedy for a problem its own research says most companies have not yet solved. ITLN reported on 2 July 2026 (itln.in) that the supply-chain risk specialist had launched “Achilles Risk Screening”, an AI-assisted tool meant to identify supplier-risk exposure earlier across large vendor bases.…
Pilot is trying to turn restaurant AI from a presentation buzzword into a margin-protection tool. Trade titles reported on 3 September 2026 that the South African hospitality software group had launched Navigator as a plain-language query layer over its point-of-sale data, (bizcommunity.com) and Pilot’s own…
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Managing suppliers has become one of those quiet drains on small business leadership: necessary, constant and easy to underestimate. According to a Walmart Business survey of more than 500 decision-makers at firms with 10 to 500 employees, 37% spend between four and seven hours a week on routine ordering alone.…
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View AllFor procurement teams, the bottleneck is often not negotiation or analysis but administration: forwarding purchase orders, chasing confirmations, updating supplier records and relaying questions that vendors could answer themselves. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management already includes vendor collaboration tools designed to cut out that middle layer, giving suppliers a…
Governments are increasingly discussing how to build legal and policy guardrails for military artificial intelligence, but the more immediate question is how existing tools can already shape its development. One of the most powerful, yet often overlooked, is defence procurement. The argument advanced by Dr…
