Andrea S. Patrucco, Ph.D.

I am Andrea Patrucco and I am currently an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management in the Department of Marketing and Logistics at Florida International University College of Business. Starting from January 2026, I am the Co-EIC of the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management.

I graduated from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and moved to the United States in 2017, where I was a faculty at the Pennsylvania State University.
My main research expertise is in the area of buyer-supplier relationship management in both the private and public sectors.
My main passion is, indeed, public procurement! I am one of the academic leaders of the International Research Study on Public Procurement Research group and, over the years, I have helped several public organizations to better understand the role and value of procurement for public management. I am included in the list of public procurement experts of the Publications Office of the European Union. In the United States, I actively collaborate with the two most important public procurement organizations: NASPO - National Association of State Procurement Officers and NIGP: the institute for public procurement.
In collaboration with other colleagues, I have contributed to realize several important research reports and publications in relevant public procurement areas. The latest ones are:

NIGP 2026 State of the Public Procurement Profession (in collaboration with Dr. Kim Abrego, Dr. Mohamad Alkadry, Satinder Atwal, Kirk Buffington, Mike Bevis, Lourdes Coss, Dr. Ana-Maria Dimand, Stéphanie Dion, Ryan Duncan, Marcheta Gillespie, Darin Matthews, Victoria Mirlocca, Dr. Evelyn Rodriguez-Plesa, Toni Samuels, Brooke Smith, and Dave Wetzel).
Procurement Management: Strategy, Organization and Tools (co-authored with Federico Caniato, Antonella Moretto, Davide Luzzini and Stefano Ronchi): this new textbook, designed for both student classes and procurement managers, offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of procurement management in terms of its strategic role in creating business value, organization of people and processes, and implementation practices and tools. Covering topics from make-or-buy decisions to managing international supply networks, from spend governance to suppliers management, from ethics and sustainability to advanced digital technologies, and from supply chain finance to prices risk hedging, every chapter includes real business cases and practical frameworks.
The Essential Guide to Public Procurement: Bridging Theory and Practice (edited with Ana Maria Dimand and Ben Brunjes): this book is designed for all those who “fall into” procurement with little formal training: academic instructors teaching procurement courses without specialized backgrounds, students in Public Administration programs seeking to understand government contracting, researchers exploring this interdisciplinary field, and practitioners at all levels of government who manage over $10 trillion allocated annually in global procurement spending. Each chapter combines academic research with practitioner insights, capturing key elements of the procurement process. Teaching cases developed in partnership with professional organizations like NIGP and NASPO make it an invaluable resource for both classroom instruction and professional development

Here, you will find more information about my background and research interests, my current research projects, my publications, my teaching activities, and my community-building/engagement and outreach activities.

For collaborations or more information about my research and teaching, please feel free to contact me using the contact form!

Latest publications

The Essential Guide to Public Procurement: Bridging Theory and Practice

Ana-Maria Dimand, Benjamin M. Brunjes, Andrea S. Patrucco

ISBN 9781032935966, Routledge

Innovators and Transformers: From policy to public value: how procurement governs AI adoption in US State government

Andrea S. Patrucco, Ana Maria Dimand, Brooke Smith

International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management

Procurement Management. Strategy, organization and tools

Federico Caniato, Davide Luzzini, Antonella Moretto, Andrea S. Patrucco, Stefano Ronchi

ISBN - 9791220602396, pp. xii-368

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Latest blogposts

Mar 23, 2026

From AI policy to public value: why procurement matters more than most governments realize

Artificial intelligence is moving quickly into government operations. Across U.S. state governments, agencies are exploring AI for tasks such as document handling, vendor and users Q&A, cost and revenue analysis, traffic monitoring, anomaly detection, ...

The State of the Public Procurement Profession 2026

Public procurement is often described as a rules-driven function. That is true, but incomplete. The past few years have made something else equally clear: procurement is also a capacity issue. When markets tighten, when policy shifts, when cyber risks ...

The Big Sustainability Lie: Why Technology Alone Won't Save Your Supply Chain

Businesses worldwide are racing to embrace digital transformation, convinced that technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), IoT, and cloud computing are the ultimate keys to unlocking sustainability. However, beneath this enthusiasm l...