In the last 50 years, purchasing has transformed from a transactional role into one that’s more strategic, aligned with ...

As we enter 2025, procurement leaders face unprecedented transformation opportunities alongside complex challenges.

New product development can be described as a five-stage process, beginning with generating ideas and progressing to marketing completed products. In between are processes where you evaluate and ...

Purchasing and Strategic Sourcing knows the purchasing process, key vendors in various industries, other customers (i.e. University contacts), methods for benchmarking prices to make sure the ...

"Managing the New Product Development Process: How Japanese Companies Learn and Unlearn." In The Uneasy Alliance: Managing the Productivity-Technology Dilemma, edited by R. Hayes, K. Clark, and C.