Commentary - As 60-70% of an enterprise’s IT budget is spent on hardware, software, and external vendor services, maximizing the value derived from IT vendors is key to delivering efficient IT ...
Managing external partners has become a critical part of doing business today. As companies expand and rely more on outsourcing, the risks tied to outside vendors grow larger. Businesses can face ...
Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership. While working with IT vendors can help ease ...
Service-level agreements and key performance indicators are the most common ways to measure a vendor’s performance. While these types of metrics are highly quantitative, they’re fundamentally flawed ...
Historically, vendor management teams built strong skill sets in acquiring services at low/competitive unit-cost prices and measuring vendor performance. But the world changed, and there is a growing ...
As a result of some recent sweeping changes in vendor management and risk management, enterprises must recognize and address the complex legal issues that are bound to come up when working with ...
BPO buyer organizations talk the talk when it comes to governance and include it in their contracts, but many are not walking the walk. Thorough BPO vendor management is inconsistent at best, and this ...
In the pharmaceutical industry, a vendor refers to an external entity or supplier that provides goods, materials, services, or specialized expertise to pharmaceutical companies. These vendors play a ...