'No business is an island', as the poet (John Donne) nearly said, which means that organisations will inevitably have to choose and manage an array of third-party vendors and suppliers -- any of whom ...

My Atlas Connect: Transforming Supplier Management for SMEs Globally with Advanced CRM Tools by The Atlas Network. We have worked with thousands of suppliers globally, and the processes and tools we ...

Editor’s note: The column below is from Len DeCandia, the former CPO at J&J. You can click here to read an interview with DeCandia. The financial crisis of 2009 had two measurable outcomes on business ...

Many organizations get SRM wrong. Buyers assume that it’s a special form of negotiation that can lower prices by bamboozling suppliers through the language of partnership. Supplier relationship ...