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Part 1: Early market engagement – why “post it and hope” isn’t a sourcing strategy
Part 1 of our 2026 supply chain series looks at early market engagement, and why “post it and hope” keeps creating delays for both buyers and suppliers. It explains how a persistent supplier profile, capability-based sourcing, and project supplier matching can shift procurement from passive waiting to active engagement, before timelines start slipping.
Industry Matching System: Unlocking the Full Power of Industry Through Connected Capability
An industry matching system helps shift industry from siloed effort to connected capability, where strengths are visible, linkable, and ready to activate as opportunity emerges. When capability is structured and searchable, value stops moving in a straight line and starts flowing across a living network, reducing friction, lifting utilisation, and helping the system rebalance when conditions change.
South Australia labour hire licensing changes: what the expanded scope means for your business
South Australia is significantly expanding the reach of its labour hire licensing scheme, and these South Australia labour hire licensing changes are set to reshape how businesses engage talent.
Why Making Suppliers Register for Every Project Is Slowing Industry Down
Across Australia, governments and major projects are working hard to improve supplier engagement, strengthen local industry capability, and streamline procurement. Yet despite these ambitions, an outdated sourcing practice persists in the industry, a manual supplier registration process that requires suppliers to re-register for every single project.
Major Indo Pacific Defence Industry Innovation Launch: DIAL
BenchOn unveiled the DIAL platform at Indo Pacific 2025, driving Indo Pacific Defence Industry Innovation through AI-powered global sourcing and secure defence collaboration.
Defence Industry Business Threats: Why Companies Are Leaving Public Catalogues and Open Databases
Public directories now expose key data,
raising defence industry business threats.
Suppliers are shifting to secure networks
across the Australian defence industry.
Indo Pacific International Maritime Conference 2025: What you need to know
Indo Pacific 2025 is more than a defence event. It reveals how supply chains are shifting. Find out what SMEs need to prepare for and why it matters.
Register NOW: Mirragin Australian Drone Ecosystem Portal Launches to Elevate Australia’s Drone Industry.
Australia’s drone industry has officially entered a new era of professionalism, collaboration, and opportunity with the launch of the Mirragin Australian Drone Ecosystem (MADE).
Advanced Manufacturing is Australia’s Next Growth Engine: BenchOn Launches New Capabilities.
Australia is making again. But this time it’s not about competing on cheap inputs or scale alone — it’s about advanced manufacturing: the smart integration…