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LogicSource 2025 Tariff Impact Analysis: June Update
LogicSource’s June 2025 tariff report offers the latest insights into China, UK, and EU trade developments and provides procurement strategies to mitigate cost increases across retail, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors.
$50MM in P&L Savings for a Leading Private Equity Firm
Discover how a top private equity firm partnered with LogicSource to centralize procurement across 10 portfolio companies — unlocking $50M+ in savings and transforming sourcing strategy.
How Healthcare Supply Chains Are Responding to the 2025 Tariff Surge
How are healthcare supply chains preparing for the 2025 tariff surge? LogicSource Center of Excellence Partner James Bouchard shares key takeaways from The Health Management Academy’s CSCO Summit reveal strategies, risks, and next steps.
LogicSource Climbs Financial Times List Amid Surging Demand for Cost-Saving Solutions
LogicSource climbs the Financial Times 2025 list as demand surges in healthcare and private equity sectors for procurement partners who deliver measurable savings and real business outcome
2025 Fluorescent Ban: State-by-State Analysis and Organizational Impact
LogicSource’s latest analysis breaks down the state-by-state bans on fluorescent lighting and what they mean for businesses. Learn how to prepare for the LED transition with compliance, cost savings, and sustainability in mind.
Tariffs and the U.S. Healthcare Supply Chain
LogicSource Center of Excellence Partner James Bouchard reveals the short and long-term impacts of U.S. tariffs on healthcare supply chains, from rising costs to sourcing strategies and vendor challenges.
LogicSource Analysis: Sourcing Trends Q2 2025
Access LogicSource’s Q2 2025 Sourcing Trends Report for key sourcing trends and market dynamics across indirect spend areas, cost projections, and procurement strategies from 180+ indirect category experts.
LogicSource 2025 Tariff Impact Analysis: April Update
LogicSource’s April 2025 Tariff Impact Analysis examines how new reciprocal tariffs affect indirect spend categories and provides procurement strategies to mitigate cost increases across retail, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors.
Why Service Reliability Matters in Price-First Logistics
Discover how focusing solely on cost-cutting in logistics can lead to unexpected expenses and lost revenue. Learn why building strong carrier partnerships and prioritizing service reliability is crucial for long-term success.
Softening The Blow Of The U.S. Trade War
LogicSource’s Michael Braunschweiger shares tactics to help companies protect margins and optimize supply chains amid U.S. evolving trade policies.
Cleveland Clinic and LogicSource Set Benchmarks for Non-Clinical Procurement
Cleveland Clinic and LogicSource are transforming non-clinical procurement, helping health systems save on indirect spend. Discover how their collaboration sets new benchmarks for cost efficiency in healthcare.
LogicSource’s Tariff Report Warns of Significant Cost Increases
LogicSource’s 2025 Tariff Impact Analysis reveals substantial cost increases across indirect spend categories, with IT hardware, packaging, and HVAC systems facing significant tariff impacts starting January 2025.
LogicSource 2025 Tariff Impact Analysis: February Update II
New U.S. tariffs on steel & aluminum take effect March 12, 2025, impacting manufacturing, healthcare, retail, and technology sectors. Explore key risks and industry impacts in LogicSource’s latest update.
Tips for Building Resilient Supply Chains Amid Rising Disruptions
Is your supply chain ready for the next disruption? Discover how adaptive contingency planning can protect your business’ critical operations during labor strikes and other external challenges.
LogicSource 2025 Tariff Impact Analysis: February Update
Explore the newest LogicSource update and analysis on tariffs and their impact on industries like healthcare, retail and consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, and more in 2025.
LogicSource 2025 Tariff Impact Analysis: Strategic Implications for Indirect Spend
Stay ahead of the 2025 tariff increases with actionable insights. Download LogicSource’s report to understand the financial and operational impacts on indirect spend and strategies to protect your bottom line
Unveiling the Costs of Non-clinical Spending in American Healthcare
What’s the amount of the hidden costs in American healthcare spending? Discover the factors driving these costs and their effects on healthcare management and efficiency.
Procurement Analytics: 8 Key Metrics for Measuring Performance
Can healthcare organizations drive operational excellence through procurement analytics? Explore eight key metrics to enhance visibility into non-clinical spend, improve sourcing processes, and identify cost-saving opportunities.
Lack of Discipline Costs Real Money: Non-Clinical Spend Targeted for Cost Savings
There are five steps healthcare systems can take to improve their procurement processes to unlock new cost savings in the supply chain.
Navigating Healthcare’s Financial Storm: The Need for New Cost Management Strategies
Discover how the Cleveland Clinic and LogicSource collaboration is transforming healthcare cost management to address financial pressures from rising costs and an aging population.
Addressing Inefficiencies in Non-clinical Spend: A Checklist for Health Systems
Improve margins and reinvest in patient care. Download this non-clinical spend checklist to learn how to address common inefficiencies and optimize.
How to Maintain Profits and Earn Consumer Trust Amid Price Cuts
Discover strategies for retailers to maintain profits and consumer trust amidst price cuts. Learn how optimizing indirect spend can help balance cost reductions while ensuring quality and customer satisfaction.
Debunking The Generalist Delusion in Indirect Procurement
Don’t buy into the misconception that generalists are enough to handle indirect procurement. Learn why investing in specialized expertise is necessary to harness the full potential of this indirect spend for your business success.
Unlocking Hidden Value: Navigating Healthcare Procurement Maturity
Discover how the Procurement Maturity Model empowers healthcare CFOs and procurement leaders to unlock hidden value in indirect spending. Learn about the five-stage framework for assessing and improving procurement capabilities.
How to use more rigor in buying non-clinical products, services
Healthcare spends a significant amount on non-clinical services but managing non-clinical procurement the traditional way could mean missed savings opportunities. Learn how to optimize non-clinical procurement for better patient care and cost reduction.
4 Reasons To Re-Evaluate Your Non-Clinical Spend Management
Rising costs & fragmented procurement squeezing your health system’s margins? Learn how to overcome these threats and unlock hidden savings of up to 15% with better non-clinical spend management. Download our free guide now.
Revolutionizing Cost Management: Why New Strategic Partnerships in Healthcare Matter
Amid the rising cost of care, the need to double down on non-clinical spend categories to find efficiencies is greater than ever.
Why GPOs Are Only Part of the Cost Savings Formula for Healthcare Organizations
Healthcare organizations have long benefited from savings leveraged by the collective purchasing power of GPOs. However, GPOs may not be enough to fully capitalize on the cost savings opportunities of non-clinical spending. Discover four actionable steps that can help unlock these hidden benefits.
Seven Habits of a Highly Effective Health System CFO
Discover how health system CFOs can lead their organizations through economic turbulence by adopting seven crucial habits. Learn from other industries to enhance financial health and patient care.
Busting Myths: Why Contract Lifecycle Management Tools Fail & the New Path to Procurement Success
Discover why you should avoid contract lifecycle management tools and what contract management solutions are better suited to meet your procurement needs. Learn how to leverage contracts to provide business value with actionable data.
Derisking Your Financial Future: Spend Management Strategies to Thrive
Empower your decision-making with expert insights and practical actions to optimize your spend management. Gain a strategic advantage to tackle volatility and pave the way for your organization’s resilient, innovative future.
Why You Need Better Benchmarks for Your Non-clinical Spend
Stop overpaying for essential non-clinical purchases. Learn why relying on broad national benchmarks can cost your health system millions and how to make the shift towards best-in-class pricing with our exclusive guide.
How To Unlock Savings In Indirect Expenditures
Don’t overlook the potential savings in indirect expenditures. Learn how to strategically manage and optimize costs in this uncertain economic climate with expert tips from LogicSource CEO David Pennino and boost your company’s financial performance today.
Easing RFP Angst: A Guide to Selection of the Right Media Agency
Find out how a procurement consultant can help you source the right media planning and buying agency for your business, with tips and insights from years of experience in conducting media agency RFPs. Don’t take a leap of faith when it comes to choosing a partner – make an informed decision based on these important… Read more »
Going Local versus Going National for Non-clinical Procurement: The Power of Local Contracts
Learn how local contracts can provide distinct advantages over GPOs when it comes to procuring non-clinical goods and services. Discover the key reasons why your health system should consider opting for localized contracts rather than nationwide agreements.
Look Beyond GPOs for a New World of Cost Savings
There’s a massive savings opportunity that healthcare systems miss out on when solely relying on national GPO contracts for non-clinical procurement. Here’s why you need a holistic, in-depth approach to truly optimize non-clinical expenditures.
Level-Up Your Sourcing From Chaos to Clarity by Overcoming These Challenges
From lost time to decreased profitability, inefficient sourcing can have far-reaching implications. Discover what common roadblocks you could be facing and why you may need to take a closer look at sourcing technology.
A New Approach to Overcome Healthcare’s Annual Budgeting Challenges
Find out how healthcare CFOs can overcome traditional budgeting challenges and optimize the budgeting process without impacting the patient delivery model.
Why Procurement Is the Key to Improved Profitability
Indirect procurement can reduce operational costs by up to 12%, but many organizations aren’t equipped to leverage its full value. Find out how LogicSource is uniquely positioned to address this gap in the corporate workflow.
Health System CFOs, Don’t Overlook the Potential Savings in Non-clinical Spending
Despite increasing awareness of the need to manage non-clinical spend better, doubts remain on how to do it the right way. Our guide looks at common missteps when managing non-clinical procurement and lists down questions that must be asked when optimizing non-clinical expenditures.
Decoding Source-to-Pay Solutions: Questions Every Procurement Team Should Be Asking
Get the most out of your source-to-pay technology by asking the right questions. Here, we provide seven essential questions for procurement teams to ask in order to find the right software for their needs, with recommendations on how to get started.
Fighting Inflation with Better Buying
LogicSource’s David Pennino talks about how procurement can enable companies to succeed amidst volatility — without raising prices or hurting their consumers.
To Thrive in an Inflationary Market, Harness the Full Value of Indirect Procurement
Why is it important for procurement teams to work faster and smarter? Find out how a high-performing, well-funded, and well-resourced procurement team can drive long-term business growth, even in an inflationary market.
6 Common Procurement Technology Red Flags You Should Not Ignore
Choosing the right procurement technology can streamline operations and maximize savings potential. Find out the common red flags you should watch out for so you can make the right choice.
5 Procurement Performance Management KPIs to Change the Game and Elevate Procurement
Ready to improve your indirect sourcing and procurement performance? Find out why you should switch to a modern PPM solution for enhanced visibility, greater efficiency, improved decision making, lower costs, reduced risks and more.
In Search of Cost-Saving Opportunities? Take a Closer Look At Your Indirect Spend
There is more than one way to keep profit margins healthy amidst rising inflation and global uncertainty. Discover how you can unlock sources of funds by tackling your indirect spending.
The “So What” of Spend Analytics
Discover the power of spend analytics and see how procurement leaders are transforming their businesses with actionable insights. Learn the value behind gaining transparency into spend to help make informed decisions.
10 Questions You Should Ask When Choosing A Procurement Tech Vendor
Our guide provides a checklist of ten essential questions to help you make an informed decision when choosing a procurement technology partner to find the best solution for your business.
Motivating Healthcare Leaders to Address Non-Clinical Costs: Four Actions to Take
With tightening operating margins and the dwindling impact of direct cost-cutting measures, health systems should refocus their initiatives on their non-clinical costs. Discover the actionable steps needed to kick-start your non-clinical procurement efforts.
Breaking Barriers: How Procurement Analytics Helps You Secure Leadership Buy-in
Learn how CPOs can overcome common roadblocks and demonstrate the strategic value of procurement in order to earn a permanent seat at the decision-making table with the C-suite.
The Procurement Puzzle: Why Traditional Procurement Solutions Aren’t Fitting the Bill
Struggling to get the most out of your source-to-pay solutions? Our guide goes into why traditional S2P technology solutions often don’t meet expectations and introduces a different strategic approach for procurement teams.
Integrating Fintech with Procurement Technology to Optimize Spend
Learn how procurement technology can help your company reduce costs and optimize spend. Find out the 4 key areas you need to consider before choosing the right solution for you.
The Key to Unlocking Hidden Savings: Taming the Complexities of Indirect Procurement
A lack of expert resources. Poorly adopted technology. Limited visibility into total spending. When these effects snowball, the result is needless internal complexity leading to inefficiencies across your indirect procurement function.
Procurement Tech 101: Key Questions to Address before Selecting Your New ProcureTech Partner
Get our guide that breaks down some of the most common questions and concerns organizations confront when evaluating procurement technology. Learn key tactics for optimizing your procurement technology to drive the most value for your business.
Indirect Procurement Data and Analytics: The Four Key Challenges and How to Solve Them
Discover how overcoming these challenges with effective data management can provide valuable insights to businesses and help to realize procurement’s full potential as a strategic profit improvement function.
Build Competencies in these Five Areas to Optimize Indirect Spending
Transform your procurement team from an administrative cost center to a strategic profit driver with our guide on the five areas of competencies needed to optimize indirect spending.
6 Actionable Steps to Turn Your Procurement Team Into a Strategic Profit Center
Businesses are facing mounting pressure to cut costs and meet financial goals amid today’s macroeconomic challenges. While headcount reductions are typically the first lever pulled in cost cutting strategies, indirect expenditures also offer significant potential for cost savings. Transition from a reactive procurement function to a more strategic and sustainable model of cost savings and profit improvement.
6 Actionable Steps to Reduce Non-clinical Spending and Improve Operating Margins
Non-clinical spend typically equates to 20% to 25% of a health system’s net patient revenue and represents a significant opportunity for cost savings. But overcoming entrenched buying practices and managing these expenses can be a complex challenge for healthcare providers.
Evaluating Procurement Technology? Look Beyond Legacy Providers
Expert insights into key considerations when choosing a procurement technology provider. Find out how to evaluate potential solutions, overcome traditional Source-to-Pay implementation failures, and unlock value from S2P.
Addressing Indirect Spend to Maximize Sales Revenue and Impact
Find out why sales efforts are bringing diminishing returns and how you can address indirect spend to maximize revenue. Get key insights to address indirect spend and see immediate results by partnering with a leader in procurement.
5 Stats That Show Cutting Costs by Cutting Jobs Hurts Business (and What to Do Instead)
In this guide, we reveal why focusing on indirect spend management offers a way to avoid difficult downsizing exercises.
Exploring Untapped Savings in Non-clinical Spending: Two New Strategies for Healthcare Leaders
Healthcare supply chain teams nationwide faced an unprecedented crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic. Teams raced to secure personal protective equipment (PPE). Surges in demand for equipment and transportation disruptions strained our fragile procurement infrastructure. And national lockdowns further delayed shipments, exacerbating these unmatched supply chain challenges. Three years later the healthcare supply chain is taking… Read more »
The Indirect Spend Opportunity: What You Don’t Know Could Cost You
Transition from a reactive procurement function to a more strategic and sustainable model of cost savings and profit improvement.
Non-Clinical Spend Optimization: The Solution to Healthcare System Margin Pressure?
Non-clinical spend typically equates to 20% to 25% of a health system’s net patient revenue and represents a significant opportunity for cost savings. But overcoming entrenched buying practices and managing these expenses can be a complex challenge for healthcare providers.
GPOs are a Service Provider, but are they a Working Partner?
A group purchasing organization (GPO) model is built on economies of scale, grouping purchasers with similar needs to buy in bulk and reduce costs for member organizations. This works well when it comes to cost-of-doing-business items that companies use for their core offerings. In healthcare, this may be things like PPE, surgical equipment, medical supplies,… Read more »
How Much of that Marketing Tech Stack are you Really Using?
Remember the days when your Magic 8-ball would always give the right answer? It didn’t matter how many how times you needed to shake it – eventually, you got the answer you wanted. Unfortunately, as digital marketers we can’t rely on a Magic 8-ball for the answers, we need to be much more methodical if… Read more »
Finding the Buried Treasure in Your Organization
There is a hidden resource hiding within every organization. And it’s one that can help any leader—CEO, CPO, CFO, COO—overcome the primary challenge of today: keep profit margins healthy amidst rising inflation and global uncertainty. For most of the clients we’ve worked with at LogicSource, the focus in rising to this challenge is often revenue-centric…. Read more »
Five Retail Opportunities Amid Economic Uncertainty
With growing economic uncertainty driving renewed caution among US consumers, Retailers are facing make-or-break decisions. How they respond to revenue pressures and the financial headwinds disrupting their long- short- and near-term plans will determine whether they are positioned for success or destined to spend years course correcting. In this report, the team at Coresight Research details… Read more »
Sourcing and Procurement’s Role in the Future of Healthcare
This article was originally published by Healthcare Business Today. America’s hospitals are projected to lose billions in 2022, as expenses are expected to increase by an eye-watering $135 billion from 2021, with the most optimistic predictions expecting margins to be 37% lower than pre-pandemic levels, according to the American Hospital Association. On the ground, multiple… Read more »
Cut Jobs or Cut Costs? How CFOs Can Better Navigate an Uncertain Economic Environment
This article was originally published by Supply & Demand Chain Executive. In the face of mixed economic signals, many businesses today are uncertain of the steps they need to take to best position themselves for growth in the months and years to come. Organizations are faced with issues on multiple fronts, painting a concerning picture for… Read more »
Procurement and Legal: The Great Contract Management Debate
Since 2009, LogicSource has delivered indirect procurement assessments, services and technology for hundreds of clients across a wide range of industry verticals. One of the most common challenges that we help resolve for our clients is Contracts Management. Ownership of the technology used to manage the contracting process and subsequent storage of contract documents and… Read more »
A Cure for Complexity: Streamlining Source-to-Contract with OneMarket’s Mark Flowers
Today’s disruptive and fast-paced business environment is putting unprecedented pressure on Procurement teams, meaning modern Procurement professionals need enabling technology that can meet the dynamic needs of their organization. Responding to that increasing need, OneMarket has made significant user experience enhancements to its Source-to-Contract solution. In this candid discussion, Managing Director of OneMarket Product Management,… Read more »
Indirect Procurement: Fueling Innovation in Retail’s New Reality
This article was originally published by Retail TouchPoints. These days it takes about everything businesses have just to get goods on shelves. Product inventories have fallen to historic lows. Goods are held up by shipping container shortages, congested ports and a long-simmering lack of truck drivers that’s worsened with unprecedented resignation and retirement rates. These… Read more »
How to Fix Failing Procurement Technology Before it’s Too Late
This article was originally published by Supply & Demand Chain Executive. Procurement technology can unlock transformative value for the procurement function and the company. But, to realize these benefits, there must be a plan for overcoming human barriers. Sourcing and procurement technology solutions are sold based upon the promise of enabling purchasing efficiencies throughout an… Read more »
The Value of Indirect Procurement to the CEO
This article was originally published by Procurement Magazine. “CEOs, of course, have a great deal of help and resources at their disposal. However, they, more than anyone else in the organization, confront an acute scarcity of one resource. That resource is time. There is never enough time to do everything that a CEO is responsible for.”… Read more »
The Spark: A View from the Other Side – An Argument for Procurement to Break Out of Its Comfort Zone
Can Procurement Departments Keep Up with AI’s Evolution?
This article was originally published by EPSNews. As artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities mature, an increasing number of businesses are investing in AI initiatives and leveraging automation in their daily business operations. This once leading-edge technology is becoming more ubiquitous and is quickly becoming an imperative to long-term success. In fact, analysts project the global AI… Read more »
AI’s Emergence in Strategic Business Functions: Is Procurement Getting Left Behind?
This article was originally published by betanews.com. 50 percent of respondents to a recent McKinsey survey reported that their companies adopted artificial intelligence (AI) in at least one business function in 2020. As interest and investment in AI and machine learning (ML) continue to grow across different business functions, is Procurement keeping pace with its business unit… Read more »
Three Lessons Learned: From One Woman in Procurement to the Next
This article was originally published by Future of Sourcing. Women in the C-suite are slowly gaining momentum, with leaders like Jane Fraser, CEO of Citi, Cathy Engelbert, CEO of Deloitte, and Karen Knudsen, CEO of the American Cancer Society all being named “first female CEOs” within the last few months. But there is still opportunity… Read more »
No One is Talking About What We Really Need to do to Get More Women in Leadership
This article was originally published by Fast Company. The events of 2020 risk reversing the progress we have made towards gender disparity in company leadership. As many as two million women in the U.S. have either left or considered leaving the workforce because of caregiving burdens and lack of work flexibility, according to a McKinsey study… Read more »
Using Data Analytics to Manage GNFR Expenses and Improve Profitability
Uncovering potential savings in GNFR (goods not for resale) expense has become increasingly important, as many US retail and CPG companies have encountered constrained profit margins as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Titled “Using Data Analytics to Manage GNFR Expenses and Improve Profitability”, the findings in our co-authored study are derived from a February… Read more »