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Six of the Top Eight Phone Makers Are Now Chinese: The Supply Base Apple Helped Build Powered Their Rise

Blueprints Into Paychecks: America Built the Factories, Now They Have to Make Money

Tariffs Between Allies: What the US-Canada Escalation Means for the World's Most Integrated Supply Chain

Civilization's Biggest Bet Runs on Five-Year Lead Times: Takeaways from the Berkeley Agentic AI Summit

Velocity Is Existential: Three Takeaways From the MEMA Commercial Vehicle Outlook Conference

Source Code Episode 14: Jim Nelles, Supply Chain & Procurement Executive, on Why Procurement Is the Fastest Way to Grow EBITDA

The Cannon Byzantium Didn't Buy: The Oldest Case for Early Supplier Involvement

Five Months Used to Be a Deployment Record: Today That's Molasses

Source Code Episode 13: Aaron McMillan, Editor from Procurement Magazine, on AI Predictions for Procurement in 2026

Source Code Episode 12: Chris Chandler, Founder & Managing Partner at The Creovia Group, on Procurement Lessons From Private Equity

The Procurement of Outside Lands

Source Code Episode 11: Douglas Johnson, Former VP of Global Supply Chain at Emerson, on 34 Years of Supply Chain Leadership

Source Code Episode 10: Victoria Folbigg, CEO of Folbigg Consulting, on How AI Will Transform Procurement

AI Workforce Is Live: Five Sourcing Capabilities and the First Results

Source Code Episode 9: Shashi Mandapaty, Former Chief Procurement Officer at Johnson & Johnson, on Why One Throne Isn't Enough

Source Code Episode 8: Running on Paper: Rick McDonald, Chief Supply Chain Officer at Clorox, on Why Supplier Trust Is the Real Business Continuity Plan

The IEEPA Ruling Doesn't End Tariffs: Refunds Are Slow and New Authorities Fill the Gap

Direct Materials Needs an Operating System Before AI Can Help

Source Code Episode 7: The Failed Historian: Jason Busch, Founder of Spend Matters, on Why 99% of the Auction Happens Before Bid Day

Rent the Model, Own the Evals: How to Buy AI Like a Procurement Team

LLMs Are Playdough: Deployment Is Where the Value Gets Built

Source Code Episode 6: Boots on the Ground: Danny Wang, former SVP at Canada Goose on Consulting, Sourcing, and Supply Chain Trust

Source Code Episode 5: From Cost Center to Competitive Advantage: How AI Is Reshaping Procurement Leadership

5,100 Suppliers vs. One Country: Two Ways to Build the Machines That Make Chips

Google Sold a Million Chips to Its Own Competition

The Power to Resist Influence: What Investors Are Actually Buying in the SpaceX IPO

Source Code Episode 4: CFOs Have a Ledger. Why Don't CPOs?

Fluency First: The Right Order of Operations for AI in Procurement

Closed-Loop Procurement: What Spend Management Can Learn From Control Engineering

The Buyer's Tariff Playbook: Duty Math Belongs in the BOM

Introducing Source Code: The LightSource Podcast

What the People Building AI Agree On (and Where They Contradict Each Other)

China Time: Chinese Automakers Ship New Cars in 24 Months, Half the Western Clock

Consolidate Your Data and Keep Your Best Tools

The Front Line Is a Factory Floor

The Two Percent Ritual: What Automotive Cost-Down Targets Really Buy

Every Job in Procurement and Supply Chain, Ranked by AI Risk

When the Mothership Leaves: Procurement After a Corporate Spinoff

The AI Sourcing Playbook: A Stage-by-Stage Guide to Where AI Delivers and Where It Doesn't

What Suppliers 51-100 Tell You That the Top 50 Won't

Why $1 of Procurement Savings Is Worth $31 of New Sales

What the 10-Ks Tell You: Reading the Strategic DNA of the World's Biggest OEMs

The Convergence Problem: Why Dual Sourcing Alone Won't Save Your Supply Chain

The Iran War's Supply Chain Shockwaves: Helium, Oil, and the Downstream Reckoning

2026 Working Relations Index: Every OEM Improved -- Here's What Changed

The Supplier's Case for Digital Procurement

China's New Supply Chain Decrees: A Practical Guide to Decree 834, Decree 835, and the Compliance Catch-22

e-Auction Types: A Complete Guide to Forward, Reverse, Dutch, Japanese, and Beyond

Should-Cost Modeling for Food: What Changes When Your BOM Has a Shelf Life

Should-Cost Modeling for Consumer Electronics: A Practitioner's Guide

HTS Codes: A Complete Guide

What Procurement Can Learn from Sales

How to Securely Serve an Enterprise App in China

Digital Twins: From Tesla to Waymo to Your Supply Chain

Duty Drawback: A Practical Guide to Recovering Import Duties

LightSource vs. Coupa: Choosing the Right Procurement Platform

The Top 10 Wartime NPI Projects of All Time

Make vs. Buy: The Case for Professional Software in the Age of AI

What Andy Warhol Can Tell Us About AI: When Making Gets Cheap, Taste and Distribution Win

ITAR Explained: What Every Procurement Leader Needs to Know

From Automotive to Aerospace: A Procurement Leader's Transition Guide

The Top 10 NPI Projects of All Time

Mastering bill of materials (BOM) data for direct materials sourcing

Getting Ready for a LightSource Deployment: Pre-Kickoff Guide

People at the Center: Leading the Procurement AI Journey in 2026

The Sourcing Bottleneck: Why "Excel & Email" Costs You Money

What is Budgeting in Procurement?

What is Supplier Performance Management?

How AI Supports Sustainable Supply Chains

Procurement Finance 2025: Strategic guide to ROI & alignment

What is RFQ in direct materials procurement? A strategic guide

What’s the difference between direct vs. indirect procurement

LightSource is validated in the fall 2025 Spend Matters SolutionMap

Before you invest in another tech stack, your best resilience tool is already on your payroll

The AI tipping point: How generative AI is reshaping procurement

Specialty chemicals leader Arxada leverages LightSource to drive process efficiency, impact, and cost control in tail spend chemicals sourcing.

Announcing AI Tariff Tracker: Automatic HTS Classification for Every Part on Your BOM

The modern chief procurement officer: Adapting to change and leading with AI in 2025

Measuring the ROI of AI: Building the business case for intelligent sourcing

Why your next sourcing optimization tool must be intelligent

Direct Material Cost Modeling with AI: A Guide

Vendor management for a new era of procurement

Auction fairness in procurement sourcing: Balancing efficiency, equity, and strategic value

Decoding the hype: A pragmatic look at analyst claims on AI in procurement

LightSource at DPW Amsterdam 2024: Helping procurement achieve 10x growth with AI

Driving cross-functional collaboration with sourcing software

Food procurement 101

Spend analysis 101

Sustainable procurement: What is it and why does it matter?

What is the difference between purchasing, procurement, and sourcing?

Apparel procurement 101

Supplier Diversity: What It Is and Where It Pays Off

3 steps for supply chain success

Healthcare procurement 101: Common procurement categories

Predictive procurement: Is it a fad?

Procurement categories for chemical manufacturers: A brief guide

Indirect procurement for dummies

What is an RFX: RFP vs RFI vs RFQ

Procurement analytics explained

Automotive procurement 101: OEM categories

What is New Product Introduction (NPI)?

What is BOM cost management?

Sourcing software's most valuable integrations

What is the current penetration of sourcing software?

Iterative RFPs: Evolving procurement processes

What Advanced Sourcing Software Actually Saves

A Perfect Marriage: PLM & e-Sourcing aka BOM cost management

Indirect procurement - The underdog

Does ease-of-use matter in sourcing tech?

How can procurement professionals maximize benefits of e-sourcing software

White paper: Inflation gate

What is supply chain?

How to build a car

Supplier partnership hierarchy

Should-cost modeling changes the game

Incoterms: A complete guide

Why procurement matters more than sales

The third wave of SaaS

A cultural double-standard in supply chain

What is LightSource?