Discover how vendor notes work as short-term loans secured by inventory. Learn the benefits, terms, and risks involved to better inform your decision-making.

As a small-business owner, you'll make payments to vendors for products and services you need to operate your company. Occasionally, a vendor may ask for proof of a payment you made for services you ...

The Army’s new acquisition strategy—buy fast, in small quantities, then maybe buy a lot more—is causing headaches for at ...

A vendor booth gives you broad exposure to show attendees, but is often a considerable expense. To get the most out of your vendor booth experience, you need to feature items that appeal to attendees ...

There is an ongoing trend in the pharmaceutical industry to outsource activities to external vendors. When such outsourcing affects GMDP-activities, and is therefore related to EU Good Manufacturing ...

Some companies maintain in-house IT teams that can custom-build the tech solutions needed to power their operations. In most cases, though, businesses in search of a tech solution turn to software ...

Major IT government software contractors like Microsoft and Oracle routinely lock federal agencies into sole-source contracts using monopolistic methods that cost the taxpayers hundreds of millions of ...

Vendor lock-in generates heated debate in the IT community, and it's now getting more attention from the general business community. On one side, you have proponents of open source technology who ...

Unhappy with your vendor? Challenge them to commit to a strategic relationship. And don’t hesitate to move on if they don’t. It’s easy to tell when a vendor relationship is broken. The vendor fails to ...

Northwestern University does not have a formal vendor registration process and does not have a central repository of vendor information for use by all departments and schools. Procurement and Payment ...