With Halloween just past, it is time to consider whether your boss is scarier than your average ghoul or if your career is in the grip of a scary, old-world Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) and thus doomed to wither… Tania Seary, Founding Chairman of three companies specialising in the development of the procurement profession – […]
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By David Loseby Behavioural procurement (BP) is a sub-field of behavioural economics and concerns itself with the application of behavioural science, social science, decision science and applied cognitive psychology to commercial activities. For years the profession has talked about soft skills (I prefer to call them people skills) without a clear definition of what exactly
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By James Marland, Global Vice President, SAP Centre of Excellence for Spend Management Welcome to the world of autonomous procurement, where procurement professionals are augmented by machines and can focus on strategic relationships which require human creativity and empathy.
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By Diego De la Garza It might have started with dollars and cents, but what should procurement really be saving now? It is time to shift the dial.
Dollars and cents: what are we really saving? Read More »
Driven by fierce customer demand and global competition, today’s manufacturers are scrambling to deliver the highest quality products at the lowest possible cost. To remain competitive, manufacturers are turning to technologies, such as 3D printing, robotics, cloud computing, intelligent automation and advanced analytics (among other emerging technologies), to revolutionise every business aspect, from sales to
Manufacturers: what is in your procurement toolbox? Read More »
Modern supply chains are more complex and global than ever before. But that also leaves them open to a wider variety of risks and disruptions. Tobias Larsson, Chief Executive Officer, and Shehrina Kamal, Director: Risk Intelligence at Resilience360, a supply chain risk monitor that identifies potential supply chain disruptions, list ten supply chain risks to
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It is excellent if you have already gained a grip on procurement’s changing landscape. If not, for many businesses, procurement remains quite intimidating. There are concerns about co-ordinating upstream and downstream processes. Risk management, supplier intelligence, advanced analytics and a drive towards innovation all suffer from disruptive digital transformation. “To keep up with the fast-changing
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By Bertrand Maltaverne We, as procurement professionals and as citizens, have a responsibility to take action to tackle the challenge of working sustainably. 01 August 2019: this could be when we reach Earth Overshoot Day this year. For the rest of the year, we will be living on credit. When it comes to natural resources,
After saving costs, now is the time to save the world! Read More »
Procurement travel managers have a whole host of issues that they need to take into account: from cost, efficiency and payment processing to data security, service reliability and employee safety. Diana Akchurina, business-to-business professional at Gett, a taxi-hailing app that operates in the USA, UK, Russia and Israel, discusses five factors that make travel one
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Three ways in which collaboration can create procurement transformation Procurement has been trying to make changes to its processes, priorities and brand identity for years. Our suppliers want us to be more open to contact and implore us to conceptualise out-of-the-box ideas. Our internal stakeholders want us to move faster and let their input play
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