Supply chain resilience is increasingly being judged by how quickly a network can adjust, not simply by whether it can keep moving. The most useful measures now go beyond headline service levels and look at route reliability, transit-time variation, carrier performance, exception frequency, fill rate…
The construction sector has spent years championing collaboration, early contractor involvement and better risk management, yet many schemes are still being brought to market before the basics have been properly settled. In practice, that means contractors are often asked to price uncertainty rather than a…
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For many health systems, the biggest gains in supply chain performance are not in the most visible categories, but in the sprawling, harder-to-manage areas of indirect spend and purchased services. Tom Swapp, senior vice-president of indirect spend and purchased services at Vizient, argues that these categories can account for 20%…
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Single-Sourced And Exposed: The Procurement Lesson Buried In Pharma’s Pandemic Supply Chain Crisis COVID-19 didn’t just disrupt clinical manufacturing – it exposed a sourcing-strategy failure that procurement and supplier relationship management teams outside biotech should recognize immediately. By Lisa Cozza and Bill Connell, Tunnell Consulting Every procurement organization eventually confronts…
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View AllA UK Cabinet Office move to give greater weight to social value in public procurement has been welcomed by Catch22, but the idea is hardly new north of the border. Scotland has had its own procurement framework for years, using community benefits and the Sustainable Procurement Duty to push suppliers…
PT Pertamina (Persero) used its Supplier Relationship Management Summit 2026 in Jakarta to reinforce the importance of partnership, safety and adaptability as it seeks to strengthen its supply chain and support Indonesia’s energy resilience. Held on Thursday, August 6, at the Grha Pertamina Ballroom, the…
