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The electronics sector is confronting an awkward contradiction: vast quantities of discarded equipment are piling up even as factories struggle…

Most freight teams believe they have a firm grip on carrier performance because they monitor punctuality, log service failures and…

EcoVadis is deepening its use of artificial intelligence through a new partnership with Google Cloud, as the sustainability ratings provider…

Most vendor management programmes do not fail all at once. They begin to creak in familiar places: onboarding drags…

The word “reliable” is used so often in China sourcing that it has become almost meaningless. Agents, traders and platforms…

Loughborough University has entered into a new collaboration with the Ministry of Defence aimed at improving the resilience of the…

Procurement teams are still struggling with a problem that sounds simple but proves stubborn in practice: they cannot see their…

Accenture, Vodafone Procure & Connect and SAP have been testing humanoid robots in a live warehouse environment in Germany, in…

Generative AI is beginning to change the mechanics of third-party cyber risk management, but the shift is not automatically an…

Essity has been named a finalist in the Social Impact category at the World Procurement Awards 2026, a nod to…

Ever.green has completed a 5MW solar project in Anson County, North Carolina, after a group of Microsoft suppliers agreed to…

PepsiCo has reworked its Asia-Pacific Greenhouse programme for 2026, narrowing the field and pushing the initiative further towards commercial deployment…

French companies are being pushed into a new era of energy buying, one in which procurement is tied as much…

In pharmaceuticals and biotech, contracts are not back-office paperwork; they are the operating system that allows a drug programme to…

Procurement and accounts payable are increasingly being pulled into the same operating model, as companies move away from stitched-together workflows…