{"id":2215,"date":"2006-11-09T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2006\/11\/09\/office-supplies-sourcing\/"},"modified":"2021-07-29T04:03:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T08:03:55","slug":"office-supplies-sourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/office-supplies-sourcing\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Supplies Sourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that you have enjoyed the article \u201cOffice Supplies Sourcing Secrets\u201d as well as the accompanying podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>That podcast really brought out a lot of not-so-common-knowledge type of information. I think that there are a lot of sourcing professionals who learned about the various pitfalls the hard way. I hope that I have saved you from those hard lessons!<\/p>\n<p>One great piece of advice that didn\u2019t make it into the article was David Clevenger\u2019s suggestion that sourcing professionals work with suppliers collaboratively to improve the most important metric: spending less on office supplies on an aggregate, annual basis. 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