Sentence examples for strategic procurement from inspiring English sources

"We are a strategic procurement team and the portal will help enable service areas to run their own contracts," she says.

The U.S. government has a long history of strengthening innovation through a combination of R&D and strategic procurement (think both aviation and internet).

Many TV makers have strategic procurement offices in Asia, the better to continuously source the best components at the best prices and manage the vendor relationships.

Meaningful Climate Stabilization Action: To contribute to global efforts to mitigate climate change, Princeton intends to dramatically reduce its carbon footprint by 2046 by reducing carbon emissions through aggressive demand-reduction and efficiency measures, energy efficiency programs, on-site generation of renewables, and strategic procurement of renewable energy sources.

"The situation has been organised artificially to drive premiums up," Dave Smith, Coca-Cola's strategic procurement manager told the Wall Street Journal.

This study offers an overview of VA and DOD procurement and contracting practices and focuses on one strategic procurement and contracting practice that developing countries may benefit from adopting framework agreements.

Cable also stressed the benefits of more strategic public procurement and said it was fair to suggest that other European countries had managed EU rules better.

Establishing long-term public-private partnerships has been a key theme of strategic public procurement in the UK, but research suggests that such partnerships have not been easy either to establish or to maintain, with problems arising from cultural differences between public and private sectors, budgetary constraints and differing attitudes to risk and innovation.

China has employed government procurement, strategic technology transfer, and domestic technology development to build its respected high-speed rail industry.

But increasingly the strategic contribution that procurement can offer to housing organisations – beyond the day-to-day sourcing of goods and services – is being recognised.

Based on our findings we recommend to pursue three avenues towards more sustainable infrastructure development: green procurement, strategic asset management and relational contracting.