Organizations that rely on third-party vendors for critical operations face unique challenges in managing vendor risks. These external ...

Increase buying power, identifying cost-savings and influencing the strategic vendor performance all sound like practical outcomes of establishing a vendor-management office (VMO). Then why is it that ...

Often hidden within the supply chains of businesses, most companies use a variety of vendors daily. Third parties are the cogs that keep a business functioning and growing, from managing employees to ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Guy Yehiav The ...

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Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership. While working with IT vendors can help ease ...

Looking ahead, organizations need to prepare for even greater complexity in vendor ecosystems. Key steps include leveraging ...

Vendors pose a risk for banks and non-banks alike … and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is monitoring those risks. “Consumers are at a real disadvantage because they do not get to ...

The growing multi-chronic epidemic and its impact on health care costs is driving the need for more effective cost-containment strategies. Vendors providing condition management solutions offer ...

The Fruits of Education column in March 2013 began a discussion of ways in which vendors can contribute to training in lab animal institutions. I called them the branches supporting the tree, making ...