CBRE and Zurich’s approach to boosting spend with diverse suppliers and social enterprises
How to grow your social impact spending by acting as advocates for diverse and social enterprise suppliers with clients and internal stakeholders?
Pan American Health Organization’s digital endeavours to increase procurement speed and efficiency
How PAHO recognised that it needed to significantly speed up its processes in order to meet surging levels of demand
Harnessing the power of supplier collaboration and innovation
Although buyers understand the merits of forging deeper relationships with strategic suppliers, many organisations risk leaving value on the table due to inefficiencies in people, processes and technology
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Fewer buyers, more specialists: The procurement team of the future
With the demands on procurement changing by the day, the function is reinventing itself and upgrading its capabilities with new skills and job roles
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Functional Capabilities: Elevating Procurement in an age of Disruption
Amid the disruption that envelops global businesses, procurement teams are under increasing pressure to deliver to enterprise goals and find bottom-line savings. At this pivotal moment, leaders must transform their people, processes and technology.
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Beyond the headlines, Ukraine conflict sparks further supply chain disruption for CPOs to navigate
As the crisis in Ukraine intensifies, procurement and supply chain executives will be deep in vulnerability-assessment mode – trying to understand their exposure and doing their best to mitigate any risks and disruption that may arise.
Evolution or irrelevance: Procurement is at a crossroads
Faced with the automation of its traditional tasks, procurement must seek new opportunities to add value – or risk fading into irrelevancy. Elevating the function’s capabilities is vital to its continuing advancement
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The Scarcity Economy
It is clear that the difficulty in obtaining both products and people has become part of daily life. This research highlights the strategies leading companies must adopt to cope and compete in this new era of scarcity.
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Five lessons from Cargill’s dramatic procurement transformation
Transforming a procurement function is not an easy undertaking. There are many pitfalls to avoid along the way that could undermine the project’s success and it’s an especially difficult task when you also need to balance the overhaul with delivering on the function’s day-to-day targets.
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Ensuring supplier collaborations end in success: Take part in our latest research
Almost half (49%) of collaborative supplier relationships end in failure. Why is that?
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