Knowledge Base
Supplier information is spread across company websites, business registers, certification databases, news sources, trade publications and social media. Finding and reviewing this information manually can consume a substantial amount of a buyer’s time. Web crawling, web scraping and supplier-intelligence platforms can help procurement teams collect and organise external information more efficiently. They can support the…
Learn how procurement professionals assess share of supplier turnover, supplier dependency, risk, bargaining power, and when the 20% guideline should or should not apply.
Learn how Tactical buyers and Category Managers can use Google Alerts to monitor suppliers, markets, risks, and sourcing opportunities in procurement.
Learn how procurement can support social sustainability by moving beyond audits, managing supplier risks, creating manoeuvring space, and embedding social criteria into the procurement process.
Business Contingency Planning in procurement helps buyers reduce supplier disruption risk. Learn how BCP connects to RFQ, supplier qualification, contracts, supplier management and procurement policy.
A supplier may first look stable, but later show signs of capacity constraints, financial pressure, quality issues, weak delivery performance, technical limitations, compliance gaps, or dependency on fragile sub-suppliers. For a procurement manager, the challenge is not only to react when something goes wrong. The challenge is to keep track of supply chain risk in a structured way before the risk becomes a business problem.
Many buyers feel comfortable discussing price, delivery time, specifications, payment terms, and supplier performance. But when the contract arrives, confidence often drops. The language becomes more formal. The clauses become longer. Legal terms appear. The buyer may recognize words such as liability, indemnification, force majeure, warranty, termination, and governing law, but still be unsure what they mean in practice. That is…
Having a Supplier Code of Conduct is no longer unusual. For many companies, it is expected. Customers, owners, regulators, employees, and business partners increasingly expect companies to know how suppliers behave in areas such as human rights, labour conditions, health and safety, environment, anti-corruption, data protection, and business ethics. But this creates a practical procurement…
Most procurement work is built on one important assumption: there is competition in the supplier market. When several suppliers can meet the requirement, the buyer can compare offers, negotiate, challenge pricing, switch supplier, improve terms, and create pressure for better performance. But what happens when there is no real competition? This is the problem buyers…
In procurement contracts, the transfer of rights clause is crucial for clearly defining the rights and obligations that can be transferred from one party to another
