Trying to manage corporate consulting spend by auditing spreadsheet hours and interrogating expense receipts is a losing battle. Sourcing leaders must step back from low-value micromanagement and build a scalable foundation that controls the initial project intake, standardizes demand management, and holds firms accountable to high-level outcomes.
Read more →Judging a creative or media agency by its blended hourly rate card is a management failure. True marketing value is unlocked by shifting from time-based audits to a practical scorecard that measures deliverable quality, unbundles hidden production markup, and links agency margins to business growth.
Read more →Industrial project overruns are rarely caused by poor engineering; they are caused by a commercial power vacuum. To stop late-stage supplier tricks and expensive change orders, organizations must enforce a clear division of labor: engineers rule the technical blueprint, but procurement commands the money and the contract.
Read more →At PSS2026-Shenzhen, the most visible change wasn’t AI itself — it was how procurement work is being redefined around decisions, not tasks. Across different companies, small, practical use cases are already shifting where time is spent and how value is created.
Read more →Most supplier reviews don’t fail because of data — they fail because nothing changes after the meeting. This article explores how supplier reviews can be structured to influence decisions, rather than simply track performance.
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