This could be controversial, but firms who require a CIA-level dossier on the client’s project and/or budget before they even are allowed to speak to someone on the phone seems backward to me. I ...

Imagine this scenario. Your procurement team starts Monday morning with 47 unread emails, a dozen Slack messages about urgent purchases, and three sticky notes from Friday’s hallway conversations.

In the future, the lines between intake and the rest of procurement may blur, as platforms automatically carry a request from initial need all the way through supplier selection and purchase order, ...

Intake management is the process by which procurement teams receive, triage, and manage internal purchase requests from employees and business units. Think of it as the formal request portal or front ...