{"id":3211,"date":"2012-12-17T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2012\/12\/17\/the-best-of-purchtips-2012\/"},"modified":"2021-03-29T02:32:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T06:32:13","slug":"the-best-of-purchtips-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/the-best-of-purchtips-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best of PurchTips 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that you have enjoyed the article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/articles\/purchtips-2012.php\">The Best of PurchTips 2012<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class='text-ad' href='\/plans-pricing\/free-membership?utm_source=textad'>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This edition was our third annual \u201cBest Of\u201d edition.\u00a0 Yes, even though we\u2019ve been publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/news\/purchasing-articles\">PurchTips<\/a> for over 10 years, it took us awhile to think of having a \u201cBest Of\u201d edition each year!<\/p>\n<p>We have some self-imposed size requirements for PurchTips, so we limited the number of articles we linked to to just eight.\u00a0 However, as I often do with this blog, I am using it to expand on the latest PurchTips by giving you two more links to articles that I think were among the most kickbutt of 2012\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/articles\/rfp-planning.php\">7 RFP Planning Tips, Part I<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/articles\/rfp-tips.php\">7 RFP Planning Tips, Part II<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, while this edition of PurchTips is our last for the year, I\u2019ll have a few interesting blog posts coming your way before the ball drops on New Years Eve, so stay tuned!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that you have enjoyed the article \u201cThe Best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - 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