Omar Khan, Author at Spend Culture

Omar Khan

Omar Khan is career procurement professional with more than 30 years’ experience in the field. Omar has held management positions with Fortune 500 companies where he negotiated multimillion dollar supply contracts with US, EU and Asian companies. Currently, he is a senior consultant with Procurement Solutions Group, where he provides hands on support to small & medium size manufacturing companies in their cost reduction projects. Omar holds an MS degree in Procurement Management from St. Mary’s College of California.

Tactical Sourcing Or Strategic Sourcing – What Works Best For Your Company?

Omar Khan

If you ask this question to a group of procurement professionals from different organizations, you will probably get the following answers:

April 19, 2016

How to Create a Manageable Supply Base for Supplier Optimization

Omar Khan

Supply Base Rationalization: How to create a manageable supply base for supplier optimization A supply base tends to grow large over the years especially in companies with multiple locations. At the same time, effective management of supplier base requires substantial resources proportional to the size of supply base. Most procurement professionals…

October 8, 2014

What’s the Difference Between Tactical vs. Strategic Sourcing?

Omar Khan

If you ask this question to a group of procurement professionals from different organizations, you will probably get the following answer: it depends.

August 26, 2014