The Supplier You Never Managed

Two algorithms set a price between them in under 200 milliseconds. Neither of them saw the supplier on the edge of insolvency. There is a job that does not get automated, and it is more specific than the consultants will tell you.

MIT Sloan Management Review will publish its final issue in September. The conversation it carried will need new rooms.

The standard story is compensation. The real story is identity. And no salary survey will surface it.

Where should AI create value in procurement? The answer is a ratio, not a list.

Should you consolidate your electronics manufacturing services suppliers in a tariff war? A decision memo with three options, honest trade-offs, and a recommendation.

Procurement has spent decades optimizing for the wrong scoreboard. It's time to measure what actually matters.

Diversification. Hedging. Rebalancing. The concepts that transformed investing can transform how you manage suppliers.

The hardest career transition isn't changing roles — it's changing identity. This guide maps the full journey from individual contributor to executive leader, with practical frameworks for each stage.