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What About Procurement Objectives?

Procurement Templates

It’s been a very long time since I’ve had to consider about procurement objectives. Here are some typical procurement objectives that every procurement professional should consider. Help your stakeholders by providing benchmarking options or the information on the latest market developments.

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The digital front door for procurement leaders in the age of AI

Spend Matters

In a world increasingly driven by the rapid developments within Artificial Intelligence (AI), procurement has the potential for enormous leverage using cutting-edge technology to become a powerhouse for generating efficiency, expanding margins, reducing risk and delivering solutions which the human mind is unable to see.

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Talent Spotlight: Andrew F. Smith

Procurement Heads

Andrew’s career started in supply chain and M&A roles in Unipart Group, before moving to Royal Mail where he was part of the procurement leadership team that transformed the function, achieving CIPS Gold accreditation in the process. Collaboration and stakeholder engagement are much-used terms within procurement teams.

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Talent Spotlight: Andrew F. Smith

Procurement Heads

Andrew’s career started in supply chain and M&A roles in Unipart Group, before moving to Royal Mail where he was part of the procurement leadership team that transformed the function, achieving CIPS Gold accreditation in the process. Collaboration and stakeholder engagement are much-used terms within procurement teams.

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The Discovery of Procurement Value

The Good Spending

Procurement value demystified Unfortunately, "procurement value" became another buzzword – everyone tells us to generate, capture, and sustain it. Value is paramount to procurement evolution. The following pyramid of procurement evolution puts the value proposition at the chart's top.

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How to build a successful procurement strategy

IBM Supply Chain Blog

The role of procurement extends beyond transactional activities. A procurement strategy allows an organization to navigate an increasingly complex global supply chain, adapt swiftly to market fluctuations, and achieve cost optimization, operational efficiency and growth. What is a procurement strategy?

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Deloitte Global CPO Survey 2023 — A focus on digital maturity and how to get there

Spend Matters

The 10 th edition of the Deloitte Global CPO Survey , which analyzes the responses of about 350 senior Procurement leaders from more than 40 countries, has been released and is available for download. Perhaps most worrying,” it states, “is that technology funding (measured as a percentage of total procurement budget) dropped from 13.2%