Are your Purchasing Job Descriptions Outdated? How changes in the purchasing certification field may impact your talent management strategy. Read this overview from Next Level Purchasing for further understanding in this key area of procurement resources.

Are you struggling to improve the performance of your purchasing team? If you're like most purchasing leaders, you are only partially satisfied with the results your team is producing. You are expected to deliver bigger and better results, but you worry that the skill levels possessed by your team may limit your ability to achieve your goals. Read this article from NextLevelPurchasing, The Purchasing Leaders Guide to a More Successful, Seven Steps for Improving Skills Getting Better Results.

The Purchasing Supply Management Career Skills Report is provided to give you, the purchaser, insight on the important skills, career development trends, and perceptions that impact today's purchasing and supply management profession. In this report, you will learn interesting statistics about the profession and will read analyses of those statistics. The purpose of the report is to help you create a personal career development plan based on best practices in the profession and, ultimately, achievemaximum performance in the workplace.

Who most determines your company's success? Clever people - employees whose knowledge and skills enable them to produce disproportionate value for your firm. Think the pharmaceutical researcher who formulates a new drug, or the programmer who creates a new piece of code. Their single innovation may bankroll their entire organization for a decade. Lead your clever people the right way, and you unleash their full potential. They and your organization win.