This resource provides six actionable tips for improving the procurement process. The article helps business owners identify the changes that will have an impact on their bottom line and streamline their procurement process for greater efficiency and cost-saving. The six tips include: being strategic when choosing vendors to avoid risks, maximizing cost-saving incentives from suppliers, hiring a procurement professional, streamlining the procurement process with the right technology, switching to a centralized supplier database, and building long-term strategic relationships with vendors to maximize mutual benefit.

This article shares four pillars of small business supply chain management including understanding your place in the market and using it to develop procurement strategies, identifying strong suppliers and nurturing those relationships, developing quantitative and qualitative metrics to manage your suppliers, and managing risk in the extended supply chain.

This article offers five pieces of advice for small businesses pursuing contracts with corporate clients, including having and working a plan, focusing locally first, being the brand architect, taking the road less traveled, and breaking the rules.

This article advises on pursuing and securing government contracts, focusing on determining the need for products and services, finding opportunities, looking for set-asides, preparing your bid, receiving an answer, what happens if you lose, obtaining a GSA Schedule contract, and considering subcontracting.