With the supply shortages and inflation driving up the price of many goods and commodities, CPOs must find a balance if they are to deliver solutions that meet the current and future needs of the business
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With the supply shortages and inflation driving up the price of many goods and commodities, CPOs must find a balance if they are to deliver solutions that meet the current and future needs of the business
Pete Wadsworth, design thinking lead at Container Solutions, explains what exactly designing thinking is and how it can be applied in SEI
Consumer goods company, Unilever evolves its partnership programme to fuel innovation, regenerate nature and make sustainable living commonplace.
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The Procurement Leaders CPO community shared their approaches to building partnerships in the supply chain to drive progress against sustainability targets
Yet2, a provider of the technology behind open innovation portals, share insights around how the use of these portals is evolving
Creating a team with the right skills and capabilities is essential to the success of any supplier innovation organisation
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
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JLL’s ambition is to build a procurement-as-a-service solution to drive further value for customers and revenue for the firm
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
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
To deliver those new ideas that deliver to patients’ needs the pharma company’s SRM team is focused on taking supplier relationships to a new, collaborative level
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
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
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.
By developing its approach to IP rights, this business has been better able to mitigate risk and deliver value
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
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
The technology giant has spent decades developing a world-class supplier diversity programme that is expanding globally