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View AllPublic procurement across Asia and the Pacific is moving beyond simple digitisation as governments and multilateral institutions increasingly look to artificial intelligence and data analytics to make buying systems smarter, faster and more accountable. South Korea’s Public Procurement Service used a meeting in Bhutan this week to position its next-generation…
Next-generation supplier management integrates strategy, data and development to boost resilience
Effective supplier management is no longer a back-office discipline; it is a strategic function that can shape cost, resilience and innovation across a business. The core challenge is not simply to maintain a list of approved vendors, but to manage each relationship in line with…

