Making money without considering the organisation’s broader role in society is becoming a thing of the past for businesses
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Embedding sustainability into supplier management
The first steps towards sustainable supply chains seem fairly straightforward, but turn out to be more complex as many face challenges with visibility, resource management and balancing profit and sustainability in decision-making situations.
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How global organisations are integrating sustainability into contracts
Participants of a Procurement Leaders virtual roundtable discussed the ways their organisations are looking to make strides in this area and also share their experiences, learnings, and best practices when integrating sustainability targets into agreements.
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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
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UCB’s approach to measuring procurement sustainability progress
The biopharmaceutical company uses a maturity assessment covering 13 key criteria to measure the sustainability of its management, processes and behaviours
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The procurement team of the future: The changing face of leadership roles
While CPOs are responding to disruption by widening the scope of their role, senior directors are becoming increasingly specialised
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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
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Team dynamics in a post-Covid world
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic has had a sweeping effect on talent management.
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Organisations reimagine staff incentives to deliver resilience, sustainability and positive growth
Leading procurement teams incentivise staff to meet environmental and innovation targets so they can drive sustainable growth
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Six soft skills every modern procurement team needs
As procurement functions evolve, teams need to grow their ability to deal empathetically with suppliers and the rest of the organisation
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How teams are improving useability and adoption to maximise the returns technology delivers
Heads of excellence came together to discuss best practice when it comes to rolling out new digital solutions
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Lessons learned from procure-to-pay system deployments
Procure-to-pay experts share best practices and their experience of rolling out technology projects
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Five ways to improve your data strategy
Effective use of data is about much more than access to information. Instead, leaders must take a more holistic approach
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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
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Clariant’s approach to establishing a digital collaboration platform for agile project delivery
The chemical company’s procurement team procurement has built engine to drive innovations that can support the delivery of the enterprise strategy, build functional excellence and improve operational efficiency
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