"Councils can do more for less through better procurement, embracing transparency and more joint working.
By embracing a new commissioning strategy, the procurement team at West Sussex council has generated £450,000 in income in the last financial year.
Procurement professionals, for example, are embracing intelligent technologies to simplify the sourcing, contracting, and payment of suppliers.
In fact, even many high-tech companies haven't fully embraced large-scale Web-based procurement.
All of that said, the company took a long look in the mirror, decided to embrace a total transformation of its procurement culture and very quickly started to realize the benefits.
The F.T.C., whose Green Guide to products with recycled content is widely followed by corporate and government procurement departments, amended its guidelines in May to embrace remanufactured products.
The Strategic Defence Review, adopted by the British government last July, is a coherent and forward-looking blueprint for the structural reforms and procurement priorities that all allies will need to embrace.
"The Bush administration's 2009 defense request follows the continuously ascending path of military outlays the president embraced at the beginning of his tenure," said Loren Thompson, a budget and procurement expert at the Lexington Institute, a policy research center.
