Centralizing purchasing becomes increasingly more important the larger a small business grows. Most importantly, a decentralized purchasing structure in which individual departments are responsible ...

Procurement department organizational structures often -- but not always -- reflect the organizational structure of your business. Additional factors, such as communication patterns, the size of your ...

For chief procurement officers and other procurement leaders, centralizing operations is often the preferred strategy. And it’s not difficult to see why: A centralized approach allows procurement to ...

Real estate owners, investors, and the teams entrusted to manage all asset types rely on vendors to keep their operations running. But few give much thought to how those vendors are sourced or held ...

The government will set up a centralised procurement team in an effort to stop paying wildly different prices for IT products, according to the Cabinet Office. The centralised team, called Government ...