Local governments are under significant fiscal pressure due to rising inflation, deferred maintenance and infrastructure investments, staffing shortages, and constituent demands for digital services.

China’s newly released 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) proposal, unveiled after the Fourth Party Plenum in October 2025, not ...

Spencer Penn is Co-Founder & CEO of LightSource, an AI-powered strategic sourcing platform. He was named to Forbes 30 Under 30. The term "AI" is everywhere, but for strategic sourcing and procurement ...

In the ever growing and increasingly important procurement industry In Ghana, as in many parts of the world, there seems to ...

Members from Amtrak police, Transportation Security Administration and local law enforcement agencies participate in Operation RAILSAFE at Washington, D.C.'s Union Station on Sept. 3, 2015. (Official ...

="margin-bottom:8px">In the current environment of business uncertainty, CFOs can be sure of one thing—cost savings will remain a critical focus. However, achieving sustainable cost reductions ...

Procurement certainly has come a long way. The simple definition of "procure" that everyone knows is "to obtain, buy or acquire." A more complicated definition would be something such as "obtaining ...

While small businesses have grown by 27.5% nationwide, many are finding that their procurement functions are stagnating. But this isn’t a reflection on the employees responsible for purchasing or of ...

A business needs to have both a strategic plan and a budget. The strategic plan lays out the direction and goals of the business and guidelines for actions to achieve those goals, while the budget ...

In the ever-growing and increasingly important procurement industry In Ghana, as in many parts of the world, there seems to be some misconception that the terms Procurement & Purchasing are one and ...