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Tariffs didn’t get simpler after the Supreme Court’s ruling. They got more layered: a broad Section 301 baseline, with s...
10/14/2026

Tariffs didn’t get simpler after the Supreme Court’s ruling. They got more layered: a broad Section 301 baseline, with sector and product-specific actions stacked on top, each running on its own timeline.

That changes how you plan. These costs don’t arrive on an annual cycle. They land on specific dates in specific categories, which means budgets and supplier agreements need to be tied to the trigger dates rather than to a flat yearly assumption.

Three actions are already in effect. Three more lands between November and January.

Swipe through to see what’s already hit, what’s still ahead, and where to act before year-end.

🔗 Download the Q3 Tariff Impact Analysis: https://logicsource.com/lp/logicsource-2026-tariff-impact-analysis-september-update/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=LSI-MI-RP-TariffImpactAnalysisSeptemberUpdate

Benefits renewal decisions are often locked in by August. Starting the process in March or April leaves little time to e...
10/06/2026

Benefits renewal decisions are often locked in by August. Starting the process in March or April leaves little time to evaluate alternatives, benchmark pricing, or negotiate effectively.

With medical and prescription costs up roughly 52% since 2015, and health benefits costs projected to increase by approximately $1.2M per 1,000 employees in 2027, organizations need to start planning earlier.

In a new article for BenefitsPRO, James Bouchard, LogicSource Partner, Center of Excellence, explains why benefits planning should begin at least 13 months before the next plan year, with the CHRO, CFO, and CPO involved from day one.

🔗 Read the article in BenefitsPRO: https://logicsource.com/employer-health-benefits-planning-and-strategies/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=46301&utm_content=LSI-MI-CT-EmployerHealthBenefits
🔗 See how LogicSource's procurement services help organizations drive savings across complex spend categories: https://logicsource.com/services/

Plan 2027 against a single inflation number, and you'll be wrong in both directions.Some indirect costs are still climbi...
10/01/2026

Plan 2027 against a single inflation number, and you'll be wrong in both directions.

Some indirect costs are still climbing; others are starting to ease. Average them together and you plan for neither, over-provisioning the categories that are cooling and underestimating the ones that aren't.

IT hardware is under real pressure — servers, storage, and networking are projected to rise around 13% on average as AI and data-center demand build. Freight is tightening again, with re**er truckload up roughly 9.5%. But it isn't all upward: property insurance is projected to ease about 5% as the market softens off recent peaks.

Our latest 2027 Inflation Projection Report, produced by the LogicSource Center of Excellence, maps pricing projections, key drivers, and the sourcing moves procurement teams should be making now.

🔗 Download the report: https://logicsource.com/lp/2027-inflation-forecast-by-procurement-category/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=46296&utm_content=LSI-MI-RP-InflationForecast
🔗 See how our indirect procurement optimization model can help mitigate the impact of inflation: https://logicsource.com/lp/what-is-logicsources-mutual-value-assessment/

Six months after the Supreme Court reset U.S. tariff policy, rates have stacked back up — a 10-12.5% baseline across 60 ...
09/17/2026

Six months after the Supreme Court reset U.S. tariff policy, rates have stacked back up — a 10-12.5% baseline across 60 economies, plus 50% metal duties, 25-100% sector rates, and country surcharges on Brazil and Canada.

Suppliers are increasingly citing "tariffs" to justify price increases that don't hold up to scrutiny — while refund opportunities from invalidated duties often go unclaimed.

Our Q3 report breaks down current rates, where cost pressure is concentrated across indirect spend, and the questions to ask suppliers before accepting the next increase.

🔗 Download the Tariff 2026 September Report: https://logicsource.com/lp/logicsource-2026-tariff-impact-analysis-september-update/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=46282&utm_content=LSI-MI-RP-TariffImpactAnalysisSeptemberUpdate
🔗 For more insights and mitigation strategies, visit our Tariff library: https://logicsource.com/logicsource-2025-tariff-impact-analysis-master-list/

For most of 2026, tariff policy felt like a moving target — emergency powers, a temporary surcharge, then a Supreme Cour...
09/10/2026

For most of 2026, tariff policy felt like a moving target — emergency powers, a temporary surcharge, then a Supreme Court ruling that reset the whole framework.

As a new 60-economy Section 301 tariff baseline reshapes sourcing costs, procurement teams also have a real opening to recover value; the invalidation of prior IEEPA duties has created refund rights now processed through CBP's new CAPE system. This shift is changing how organizations approach tariff mitigation, from managing a single flat surcharge to negotiating recovery on duties already paid.

Our latest report breaks down what's changed since the Supreme Court's February ruling, where refund and negotiation leverage now sits, and what procurement leaders should do now to validate supplier tariff claims and protect margins through year-end.

🔗 Download the Tariff 2026 September Report: https://logicsource.com/lp/logicsource-2026-tariff-impact-analysis-september-update/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=46275&utm_content=LSI-MI-RP-TariffImpactAnalysisSeptemberUpdate
🔗 For more insights and mitigation strategies, visit our Tariff library: https://logicsource.com/logicsource-2025-tariff-impact-analysis-master-list/

Headcount reductions. Deferred capital spend. Renegotiated contracts. These are the tools finance leaders reach for when...
09/08/2026

Headcount reductions. Deferred capital spend. Renegotiated contracts. These are the tools finance leaders reach for when margin pressure hits — and they're not wrong. They're just tactics.

Tactics end. Governance compounds.

The real gap isn't between companies that cut more and companies that cut less. It's between companies that manage indirect spend as an ongoing discipline — and companies that discover, only when they look closely, how much of it was never really managed at all.

In his latest blog, Michael Braunschweiger, LogicSource Chief Client Value Officer, highlights why spend governance is what produces sustainable EBITDA improvement.

🔗 Read the blog: https://logicsource.com/procurement-spend-governance-sustainable-savings/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=46268&utm_content=LSI-MI-BP-ProcurementSPendGovernanceSustainableSavings
🔗 See how LogicSource drives sustainable EBITDA improvement: https://logicsource.com/services/

Most benefits teams have three seats filled: HR, Finance, and a broker. Who's in the fourth?HR knows the workforce. Fina...
09/03/2026

Most benefits teams have three seats filled: HR, Finance, and a broker. Who's in the fourth?

HR knows the workforce. Finance knows the budget pressure. The broker knows plan design. But none of them is built to pressure-test the carrier RFP, benchmark the PBM relationship, or vet the wave of new point-of-care vendors.

In this latest Employee Benefit News article, LogicSource’s James Bouchard shares how procurement services can bring supplier evaluation discipline, sharper negotiation, and a total cost of ownership view that helps organizations make better decisions before renewal season creates pressure.

🔗 Read the full article: https://logicsource.com/employee-benefits-planning-healthcare-procurement-services/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=46268&utm_content=LSI-HI-3PA-EmployeeBenefitsPlanning
🔗 Learn more about our healthcare practice: https://logicsource.com/healthcare/

Gas was $3.66/gallon last year. It's $4.52 now. If your team negotiated it down to $3.95, is that a "savings" — or does ...
09/01/2026

Gas was $3.66/gallon last year. It's $4.52 now. If your team negotiated it down to $3.95, is that a "savings" — or does it not count because the price is still higher than last year?

In an environment of tariff shocks, freight volatility, and sticky services inflation, cost avoidance — stopping price increases before they land — can matter as much as a clean savings win. Savings is winning a negotiation. Avoidance is changing the terms so you don't have to keep winning the same one.

In his latest blog, Michael Braunschweiger, LogicSource Chief Client Value Officer, breaks down why CFOs need to value avoidance alongside savings — and why the companies that don't will keep discovering what they should have prevented.

🔗 Read the blog: https://logicsource.com/procurement-cost-savings-vs-cost-avoidance-ebitda-protection?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=46266&utm_content=LSI-MI-3PA-ProcurementCostSavingsVSCostAvoidance
🔗 See how LogicSource drives sustainable EBITDA improvement: https://logicsource.com/services/

For much of this year, the expectation was simple: as supply chains stabilized, cost pressure would ease with them. That...
08/27/2026

For much of this year, the expectation was simple: as supply chains stabilized, cost pressure would ease with them. That's not what we're seeing.

Construction input costs are still up 7.1% year over year. Far East ocean rates remain more than 230% above February levels. Health benefit costs are climbing past $18,500 per employee. Availability has improved — but availability was never the only driver of cost.

What's emerging instead is fragmentation: pressure that no longer moves in one direction but builds unevenly across categories, each shaped by its own regulatory, labor, or capacity dynamics. That makes blanket cost strategies less effective and category-level visibility more essential than ever.

Our Q3 Sourcing Trends report breaks down where that pressure is building, with strategies from 200+ category experts and $200B+ in pricing data to help leaders stay ahead of it.

🔗 Download the report: https://logicsource.com/lp/sourcing-trends-q3-2026-indirect-spend-procurement-trends-report/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=46261&utm_content=LSI-MI-RP-SourcingTrendsQ3
https://logicsource.com/lp/sourcing-trends-q3-2026-indirect-spend-procurement-trends-report/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=46261&utm_content=LSI-MI-RP-SourcingTrendsQ3
🔀 More quarterly sourcing analysis in our Report Library: https://logicsource.com/logicsource-analysis-sourcing-trends-reports/

In most large health systems, non-clinical spend has no single owner.IT sits with one team. Marketing with another. Faci...
08/26/2026

In most large health systems, non-clinical spend has no single owner.

IT sits with one team. Marketing with another. Facilities, staffing, and professional services, each negotiated on its own. The result is fragmented leverage and contracts that rarely get benchmarked against the broader market.

WellSpan Health, a 250-location system across Pennsylvania and Maryland, decided to change that. Working with LogicSource, it treated more than $300 million in non-clinical spend as one opportunity instead of a set of separate administrative tasks.

Cross-industry benchmarks replaced healthcare-only comparisons. Embedded experts ran the negotiations and RFPs. Department leaders kept control of their vendor decisions.

Year one: $7 million in savings.
By year three: over $35 million annualized, reinvested where it matters most.

🔗 Read the full whitepaper: https://logicsource.com/lp/wellspan-health-procurement-transformation-and-cost-savings-in-healthcare?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=46260&utm_content=LSI-HI-CS-HealthProcurementTransformation
🔗 See how we can do the same for your health system: https://logicsource.com/healthcare/

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