Supplier Management news and trends

Corporates Urged To Take An Introspective Look At Supply Chain Risk
B2B Payments // July 26, 2021

Corporates Urged To Take An Introspective Look At Supply Chain Risk From the coronavirus crisis to REvil ransomware attacks to the Suez Canal blockage, the volume of supply chain disruptions continues to grow, and businesses have their hands full with mitigating risk on multiple fronts. Jennifer Bisceglie, founder and CEO of Interos, said the damaging...

Healthcare Procurement Takes The Vantage Point Of The Scientist
Healthcare // June 23, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic became an era of wake-up calls in every sense of the phrase. For businesses, those wake-up calls often came from the business disruptions linked to a lack of digitization in the enterprise and a lack of resiliency in the supply chain. No...

Navigating The Budgetary Pressures Of Materials Procurement
B2B Payments // May 13, 2021

FinTech targeting the construction arena is a blossoming industry. With so many moving parts in a single construction project and with parties operating both in the field and in the office, streamlining the flow of funds between contractors and subcontractors, and everyone else on the...

Basware, Dun & Bradstreet Work On Supplier Diversity Identification
B2B Payments // May 05, 2021

Basware has made it easier for customers to identify minority-owned businesses in its supplier management solution, according to a press release from Wednesday (May 5). Customers will have access to diversity data provided by Dun & Bradstreet’s Diversity Database. “By having access to our diversity...

Interviews & Exclusives
Market Volatility Gives B2C Sellers’ The Chance To Go B2B

April 01, 2020
Streamlining and fostering strategic supplier relationships is key to optimizing procurement and lowering costs. As more organizations embrace eProcurement technology, firms are looking to shrink their vendor bases to promote efficiency. But inevitably, every business will find itself in a position when it must make an emergency purchase – and when the usual suppliers aren’t […]

Turning Every Supply Chain Into A Custom B2B Marketplace

October 14, 2019
The emergence of online shopping and eCommerce inevitably seeped into the B2B world, leading to rising demand for corporates to make purchases online the same way they do as consumers....

Quick Reads
When Supplier Management Means Faster Payments

November 12, 2015
A supplier management platform can be key to corporations that need to manage supplier risk and streamline their procurement operations. But new updates to the Enterprise Supplier Management platform from Genpact are looking toward making faster B2B payments a direct result of more efficient supplier management. Wednesday (Nov. 11) reports said Genpact has upgraded its […]