Consumer goods company, Unilever evolves its partnership programme to fuel innovation, regenerate nature and make sustainable living commonplace.
Tim Burt
Customer Insights Manager
Joined 2011
Tim joined Procurement Leaders product team in 2011 after a three-year stint in political research. As a writer, deputy editor and editor of the Procurement Leaders magazine, he has interviewed some of the leading thinkers within the function and written extensively on risk management, sustainability and supplier management as well as a number of the trends that are shaping the function IN the 21st century. Now customer insights manager, his role is to bring the procurement community to life by showcasing the projects and initiatives that are driving the function forward.
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SEI foundations: Establishing cross-functional engagement
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How procurement is partnering with suppliers to drive sustainability
The Procurement Leaders CPO community shared their approaches to building partnerships in the supply chain to drive progress against sustainability targets
SEIC insight call: The evolving role of open innovation portals
Yet2, a provider of the technology behind open innovation portals, share insights around how the use of these portals is evolving
SEI foundations: Core skills and capabilities
Creating a team with the right skills and capabilities is essential to the success of any supplier innovation organisation
Leonardo’s approach to developing a strategic partnering programme for suppliers
The Indirect Procurement Team at Leonardo UK embraced the disruption created by Covid-19 to accelerate the launch of a new SRM programme to drive out greater collaboration and innovation
SEI foundations: KPIs to measure and track performance
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JLL’s approach to procurement revenue generation
JLL’s ambition is to build a procurement-as-a-service solution to drive further value for customers and revenue for the firm
SEI foundations: How to manage and protect intellectual property
Determining who owns the intellectual property rights to any innovation – and ensuring all parties are satisfied with this – is critical to commercialising new products and processes
SEI foundations: Segmentation models and criteria
Without segmentation, an SEI team will either focus solely on those largest suppliers that have always worked with the company or will be completely unfocused in its efforts
Roche’s approach to moving from SRM to supplier-enabled innovation
As a business, Roche has an aim of delivering what patients need tomorrow, today. To deliver those new ideas that will enable this, the SRM team is focused on taking supplier relationships to a new, collaborative level
SEI foundations: Creating value propositions
This report provides the templates and guidance for any SEI team looking to create and develop a value proposition for their programme, which is an essential early step in the process
SEIC kick-off: The ways in which SEI teams are working to deliver value in 2021
The SEIC community came together in January to discuss their priorities and challenges ahead. With the need to deliver value, the focus of the community is on scouting for new suppliers and working to align themselves close with internal stakeholders
Danske Bank’s approach to creating partner-enabled innovation workshops to solve business challenges
The procurement team at this Danish financial services firm wanted to disrupt how the business sought to solve some of its biggest challenges by bringing in the voices from the external market. This they did through a series of collaborative workshops.
An energy company’s approach to solving IP ownership issues when developing innovative technologies with third parties
When looking to develop new technologies through its supplier-enabled innovation programme, this company knew that it had to develop its approach to IP rights, one that would enable it to mitigate risk and deliver value
SEIC insight call: How the innovation team at Philips works to connect internal and external expertise to develop new solutions
Philips’ Alice Verdonk, Business Process Expert in Supplier Enabled Innovation and Maarten van den Boogaard, Open Innovation Champion for Philips Personal Health, share their insights on the processes and tools they have developed to better connect the multinational conglomerate to its ecosystem of expertise in order to deliver new innovations
CPO call summary: Innovation Scouting
With businesses stepping up efforts to find new avenues of value, procurement functions are looking towards their supply chain to scout out new innovations. Procurement Leaders gathered its CPO community together to discuss the key to success
Procurement 101: From crisis to positive growth – 2021 trends
This Procurement 101 explores the key trends Procurement Leaders found that are shaping the function as it heads into 2021. While procurement teams had a challenging 2020, the key role the function...
IBM’s approach to developing a world-class global supplier diversity programme
Multinational technology giant IBM has spent the last few decades building and developing a world-class supplier diversity programme that is gradually expanding its reach across the globe
Managing the change created by Brexit and Covid-19 in 2021
On this virtual roundtable, a cross-industry group of procurement executives came together to discuss how they were preparing their supply chains for Brexit.