Across the Middle East, commercial relationships have long rested on personal trust, but that tradition is now colliding with modern procurement systems built around hourly billing and rate cards. As markets from Dubai to Riyadh digitise and professionalise, the tension is becoming harder to ignore:…
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BMW’s bruising third quarter in 2024, when net profit fell 83.8% to €476 million, has become a useful illustration of why some industrial groups are now turning generative AI to procurement rather than to more glamorous front-office uses. The German carmaker’s profits were hit by weak demand in China, delivery…
A new market study from Verified Market Reports says cloud supply chain management is moving into a faster-growth phase as companies rethink logistics resilience amid geopolitical tension, volatile energy costs and trade disruption. The report argues that cloud-based platforms are no longer being treated simply…
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Joëlle Genbrugge’s career has been shaped by a leadership style that prizes consistency over spectacle and credibility over polish. From her early days at the European Parliament to her current position as Managing Partner at Solvint, she has built a reputation for steady judgement, personal accountability and an insistence on…
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View AllProcurement leaders are being warned not to confuse a market rally with a genuine easing in supply, as the Iran conflict continues to expose how quickly headlines can diverge from the physical realities of production, logistics and inventory. The central lesson is simple: a ceasefire, even when it holds, does…
Procurement teams in industrial manufacturing are increasingly finding that the biggest supply chain problems do not come from one dramatic failure, but from a series of sensible decisions that gradually create needless complexity. One supplier handles tooling, another manages forming, a third takes on machining,…
