With procurement teams hiring ever-more digitally literate staff, handing such employees the keys to the function’s digital roadmap could help expedite the function’s digitalisation process
Alex Johnston
Principal Analyst
Joined 2016
Alex is an experienced analyst specialising in technology research, with a focus on procurement digital transformation and cybersecurity. Advising senior executives on topics ranging from change management, digital project governance and roadmap development, Alex has a background in both quantitative and qualitative research.
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Design-to-disposal: Reimagine end-to-end procurement to deliver greater, broader value
Leading procurement functions are gaining more influence over the entire life cycle of products, increasingly getting involved in product design, production planning and recycling
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
Procurement job descriptions
As the role of procurement evolves, so too is the nature of jobs that CPOs are hiring for
Becoming a more valuable business partner
Procurement excellence heads discussed the current and future state of business partnering
CPO Compass 2022: The uneven recovery
The uneven recovery has led to a number of prophesied disruptions for procurement teams, from workforce mobility challenges, limited availability of materials and impacts on the resilience of commercial partners
CPO Compass 2022: Procurement’s operational revolution
New roles, tools and capabilities will shape how procurement staff collaborate with stakeholders and suppliers to deliver entirely new forms of value to the business
Procurement Salary Survey 2021
Procurement professionals at all levels expect to transition to more strategic, insight-driven roles – in line with the function’s continuing evolution from back-office cost enforcer to valued business partner and adviser
Procurement’s emerging role as a driver of sustainability
Procurement excellence heads came together to discuss the function’s increasingly pivotal role in managing the business’s sustainability impact
Data-driven decision-making: Building procurement’s future foundations
Analytics is driving a fundamental shift in procurement’s value proposition, but teams can only establish data-driven decision-making by upgrading people, processes and technology
Clariant’s approach to establishing a digital collaboration platform for agile project delivery
The chemical company’s procurement team has built engine to drive innovations that can support the delivery of the enterprise strategy, build functional excellence and improve operational efficiency
DSM’s approach to developing a holistic digital platform strategy
The pharmaceutical company leveraged expertise in its business units to tackle risk and drive supplier performance
The University of Vermont Health Network’s approach to aligning with the business on cybersecurity
Regional medical network, the University of Vermont Health Network (UVHN) engaged in a cross-enterprise approach to cybersecurity, with procurement
supporting the management of third-party cyber risk.
Procurement 101: Process engineering for digital transformation
This session looks at the challenges of mapping and redesigning processes to lay the foundations for digital initiatives.
IBM’s approach to using blockchain for supplier information management
The technology giant partnered with a blockchain consultancy to speed up and simplify the process of identifying, onboarding and managing suppliers.
How can procurement minimise the organisation’s vulnerability to cybersecurity breaches?
Although procurement has historically delegated responsibility for cybersecurity, the function must establish proactive a partnership with IT staff to meaningfully mitigate cyber threats
Procurement 101: Data analytics
This session looks at data analytics and how procurement functions are setting themselves up to deliver data-driven insights
Procurement 101: Digital transformation through partnerships
This Procurement 101 provides a summary of Procurement Leaders’ Digital transformation through partnerships report, which proposes an end-to-end framework for digital transformation from idea...
Procurement 101: Transform partnership models to drive more effective digital transformation
This Procurement 101 provides an overview of the barriers to effective partnerships and presents emerging approaches to extracting additional value from those agreements....
Digital transformation through partnerships
This report proposes an end-to-end framework from idea generation to implementation, leveraging leading approaches to digital transformation