With inflation a significant challenge for businesses, buyers provide insight into they are avoiding or mitigating the worst effects of price increases
Jonathan Webb
Head of Content & Advisory, APAC
Joined 2010
Jonathan Webb opened Procurement Leaders’ Singapore office in May 2018, where he supports regional CPOs and leadership teams. He joined the company in 2010 and led Procurement Leaders’ SRM practice. Jonathan has worked for PwC, the UK government, international think-tank Transparency International, as well as other commercial and research ventures across Asia, Africa and Europe. He writes on supplier relationship management for Forbes and is currently working towards a Ph.D. at Queen Mary University of London. He speaks regularly at industry events across the world.
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Insights now: Pivot from linear to circular procurement
The circular economy challenges businesses and their procurement functions to rethink both their operations and supply chains to maximise environmental efficiency
Virtual roundtable write-up: Supply chain transparency
This virtual roundtable discussion explored supply chain transparency and how progressive procurement functions are leading their businesses in delivering greater insight and control over complex supply chains.
The Government of Singapore’s approach to streamlining the onboarding process for startups
The procurement team has implemented new strategies and streamlined processes to fast-track startups into the sourcing process for every government agency
Guide to: Switching supplier
While replacing a supplier with a new provider is a complex and costly process, sourcing and building competitive alternatives is a habit that enables buyers to continually provide value
Managing and responding to supply chain risk
Procurement’s ability to rebuild its risk capabilities will be central to the function’s plans for 2020 and beyond
Procurement 101: Supplier switching
This session provides insights into supplier switching – a costly process that requires significant research, analysis and stakeholder engagement
Choosing the right negotiation tactics to deliver value
Driving real cost reductions from suppliers is crucial for procurement functions during a downturn, but teams must balance cost savings with ensuring supply continuity
Negotiating in a downturn
The Covid-19 crisis requires procurement teams to negotiate with suppliers to secure greater value. To do so, they must balance cost-saving targets with ensuring supply remains robust and secure
Procurement 101: Negotiation
This session examines tactics procurement teams can adopt when negotiating with suppliers to gain greater value
How Procurement Leaders is helping members to deliver in a downturn
Jonathan Webb, head of content for APAC, explains how Procurement Leaders will support procurement teams to focus on urgent, tactical concerns around cost, cash and continuity management as Covid-19 forces functions to shift their priorities
Building an impactful SRM programme
Procurement Leaders hosted a virtual roundtable on building an impactful SRM programme with attendees from food, manufacturing, cosmetics and other industries.
Consider all relevant factors before switching supplier
Although switching suppliers is an inevitable part of the procurement cycle, crisis periods may not be the optimal time to make changes to the supplier base. Procurement Leaders research has...
Procurement 101: Supplier relationships and collaboration
Collaborative supplier relationships are a unique subset of suppliers that require a specialist set of practices and skills to manage appropriately
Covid-19: The time to invest in risk mitigation capabilities is now
As procurement functions grapple with the fallout from the spread of coronavirus, now is the time to start thinking about the lessons to take forward
Procurement salary survey 2020
Benchmark data for procurement salary by job level, industry and location; providing functions with the information required to help attract and retain the best talent
Procurement 101: Category strategy development
This guide takes members through the category management process, how to identify strategic opportunities, and ways to source and shape the output
Coronavirus: How procurement kept the world’s economy moving
The outbreak of coronavirus in China has seen procurement functions scramble to source enough facemasks to keep their operations running. In a highly competitive marketplace procurement has pulled in favours, which has kept the wheels of the global economy going
Risk planning guide 2020
As businesses’ risk exposure continues to increase, procurement teams that build their capabilities in this area will enhance their value proposition and provide further value beyond savings
Implementing innovation and agile working practices in Asia
Recognising that it needed to move and operate faster in order to keep pace with challenges and opportunities, Syngenta’s Asia-based procurement team has implemented a new approach that is seeing the function and the business move faster