Watercooler conversation: Lessons in resilience, people and leadership
Leaders share their candid experiences and lessons they have learned over the past three years
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Procurement Leaders Resources
Eric Espinasse: ‘The more we depend on a supplier, the closer we need to be to them’
The Ferring CPO explains how the company is strengthening relationships with its key suppliers – and helping them to manage rising energy bills
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Hybrid work: what’s working? What isn’t?
While companies remain unclear on what hybrid work looks like, leaders agree that in-person interaction and a well-defined policy are both key to a healthy culture
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Chuck Hatsis: ‘Saving money will always be sexy. The question is finding other focus areas’
The CME Group CPO reflects on his journey and his function’s transformation, as well as the lessons he’s learned amid a challenging economic environment
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Identifying – and filling – procurement’s capability gaps
Storytelling and data analytics are two vital skills missing from the procurement team, say CPOs. This is how they are looking to find and bring those capabilities in
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Break the walls down: Enabling collaboration between risk, SRM and sustainability teams
Creating the right structures, enabling collaboration and connecting technology systems, procurement functions can enable closer alignment between risk, sustainability and SRM units
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Building future operating models that enable greater collaboration
Procurement chiefs and heads of excellence are exploring ways in which they can evolve their structures to help their organisations deliver value and meet strategic objectives
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What’s worked? Reflecting on 2021 Positive Growth
Procurement Leaders hosted a roundtable discussion to hear how leaders have reacted to the continued disruption in 2021, and hear what planning for 2022 entails.
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Setting up COEs to deliver excellence beyond procurement
Procurement centres of excellence must find new ways to deliver cost efficiencies while implementing new processes and frameworks to enable top-line value delivery in areas such as sustainability and innovation
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Future-proofing operating models: Leveraging automation and agility to gain strategic status
Digitalisation, volatility and a need for closer alignment are influencing procurement teams to reconfigure and optimise their operating models
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