Sourcing Strategies

Author: Marco Mezger, President of MEMPHIS Electronic Recent reports indicate that the global supply chains have hit their ‘Goldilocks zone’, meaning perfect, stable market conditions. This is the first time in over four years during which we have seen wild swings between shortage and oversupply. Purchasers might be enticed to lean back and relax. And

Author: Margaret Cunha, Senior Director, Supply Chain Solutions, DigiKey Throughout 2023, the supply chain continued to experience many of the challenges that have defined the past several pandemic years, including extremely high demand paired with production challenges and high costs. Through all of this, procurement professionals have been hard at work to ensure that their

Procurement is fast rising as a critical guardian and first line of risk defense. Based on the challenges of the past few years, procurement is set to play an even more significant role in tackling and solving critical business problems rather than just managing and optimizing processes. What does that mean to your organization? You

In all aspects of procurement and especially during times of chaos, it’s easy to look “out there” and modify what we’re doing in our relationships with suppliers, customers, etc. There are, however, three KPIs that, when mastered on an ongoing basis, will bring significant increases to profit margins and do it much closer to home.

A spotlight has been shone on all aspects of our supply chains lately, mainly due to recent disruptions due to world events. Cascading uncertainty can be disastrous for our supply chains, and procurement is not an exception. Accelerated by ongoing pressures, all aspects of the procurement function are evolving at breakneck speed, moving from yesterday’s