Department secretaries and deputy secretaries must lead procurement cost-reduction efforts if we hope to translate savings into budget reductions. In fact, the president needs to get involved himself.

but it undergirds a larger and longer-term paradigm shift for procurement. What was once purely a cost-savings function is now a key strategic enabler—one that mitigates risk, plays a crucial ...

The savings have occurred over the past three years following the implementation of spend management solutions from SAP that included SAP Ariba solutions for procurement, SAP Fieldglass solutions ...

Future Next Step for Cost Savings: Once all devices are onboarded, Procurement and Payment Services (PPS) will partner with schools and units to evaluate the cost savings potential of moving desktop ...

The global pandemic also put the need for better software procurement processes at center stage as uncertainty grew around software costs, sometimes the biggest spend behind payroll, and how to ...

Three months into its analysis of the university's spending and service levels, the Johns Hopkins University Procurement Initiative has identified opportunities for meaningful savings and improved ...

Office of Federal Procurement Policy Administrator Joe Jordan ascribed this “historic” savings level to “a concerted and collaborative effort by all federal agencies.” The downward trend ...

With Euna’s full-cycle procurement solution ... achieving $36,000 in savings the first year From Inefficiency to Innovation With 54,000 students across 76 campuses, Arlington ISD is one of ...

These were the modules that Sengupta felt would deliver the most immediate savings in direct procurement of raw materials and goods for production – in this case, mostly fruit and packaging. Indirect ...

HBOS, the UK banking outfit formed from the merger of Bank of Scotland and Halifax, claims to have achieved substantial procurement cost savings following the first-phase implementation of a new ...