Browsing: Power Shift

For US procurement teams weighing fabricated aluminium components for a new programme, the decisive questions are usually practical rather than…

Federal contracting is entering a more demanding phase, and small businesses are being pushed to adapt quickly. As Yolanda Goodloe…

When upstream operators merge, the vendor shake-out often begins long before the deal is fully integrated. Procurement teams are rarely…

For decades, construction cost control was treated largely as a late-stage budgeting exercise. A project team developed the drawings, the…

The war with Iran has left a lasting reminder of how much of the global energy system still depends on…

Parfetts has struck a multi-year partnership with Cerve to roll out agentic AI across supplier data, in a move the…

For manufacturers, supply-chain resilience is no longer a back-office contingency exercise. It has become a core business capability, shaped by…

Every buyer of research materials eventually receives the same unwelcome message: the item has gone out of stock, the next…

Electronics makers are being pushed to treat resilience as a design requirement rather than an afterthought. Supply Chain Research says…

General Motors has struck a $4.5 billion materials arrangement with Procura Auto Parts aimed at keeping production supplied with critical…

At a Gartner symposium in Barcelona, Schneider Electric used the stage to argue that the hardest part of modern supply…

Cheap pricing is often mistaken for a nationality. It is not. It is a tactic, a transfer and, sooner or…

North American dairy processors are entering a more complicated phase than the expansion cycle that defined much of the past…

Supply chain resilience is increasingly being judged by how quickly a network can adjust, not simply by whether it can…

Procurement teams do not have to choose between preserving a supplier relationship and pushing for better commercial terms. The more…