Transforming procurement and revisiting value creation at Dole
Dole’s head of procurement discusses his function’s pivot to design-for-value to deliver in an evolving market
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Start-up workshop: Connecting the dots and sourcing innovation
Leaders reveal the steps they are taking to ensure their organisation is innovating at pace in a volatile market
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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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Time for leaders to collaborate in the face of ever-growing volatility and uncertainty
With CPOs facing a dizzying array of challenges, Procurement Leaders is exploring how functions are responding to the numerous risks they face
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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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Relocation services
The growing adoption of hybrid and flexible working practices among businesses has helped fuel demand for relocation services
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Lene Aabo-Bjerregaard on close communication and collaboration in a crisis
Although Novozymes has developed a tool to categorise material risk, its CPO explains why close supplier relationships can be the most effective mitigation lever
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Q&A: Understanding why China-Taiwan ‘differs radically’ from Russia-Ukraine
The University of Nottingham’s Chun-Yi Lee discusses China’s zero-Covid policy, decoupling and why businesses should watch developments in Taiwan
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China beyond the headlines: Understanding the outlook for 2023 and beyond
From the future of zero-Covid to geopolitical tensions, Procurement Leaders explores the issues in China that CPOs should monitor
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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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Identifying supplier relationship management metrics that will enable a new era of value
SRM and Innovation cohort members are reassessing performance measures so they can demonstrate the value of closer supplier relationships
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Risk and regulation in 2023 – steering procurement through stormy seas
the state of risk and compliance, and crucially, how the procurement function can take the lead in risk mitigation in order to increase efficiency.
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Empower yourself and your business!
Controlling costs strategically is never far from the minds of company leaders, but it’s a topic that’s taken on new relevance as inflation has grown faster than the historical average.
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The untapped potential of procurement: using spend to drive equality
Procurement executives have the power to help lead the world into a more sustainable, more equitable future by spending more money with diverse businesses
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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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Enabling procurement efficiency: The route to becoming a strategic partner to the enterprise
Nathan Ayres, CPO of Prudential Financial, reveals how he clears a path so his team is empowered, successful and adding value to ensure stakeholders want procurement at the table
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Five lessons from Cargill’s dramatic procurement transformation
Cargill’s procurement team transformed the function’s structure, use of technology and approach to capability development. Here are five things the agribusiness learned on its journey
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Cargill’s approach to transforming the function for 2025
The global agribusiness giant has delivered a dramatic increase in procurement ROI by integrating its global procurement teams into one center-led function with strengthened processes, enhanced career opportunities, and collaboration at its core
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s approach to building a procurement function
The New York-based art museum’s CPO built a new team, sourcing process and internal engagement plan from the ground up
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Barilla turns to multisourcing, new supplier markets and technology to overcome risks
Amid inflation, shortages and volatile commodity markets, the pasta maker is leveraging internal and external relationships, says CPO Luigi Ganazzoli
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Managing supply chain risk in a changing market landscape
It is now more important than ever for procurement leaders to manage and monitor risks within their supply chains – with both a short- and long-term view to understand the future impacts of supplier and supply chain health.
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CPO Compass 2023
Accelerating inflation, a darkening economic outlook, and geopolitical uncertainty are just some of the issues procurement teams are facing as they look ahead to 2023.
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CPO Compass 2023
After years of firefighting, CPOs are leading their functions into an era of data-driven resilience – enabling their teams to deliver new sources of value
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Getting ahead in volatile markets: How sourcing teams are winning with dynamic market sourcing
In partnership with Keelvar: In an era defined by instability and uncertainty, procurement teams must ensure their sourcing processes are fit for purpose
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CPO Q&A: Delivering on sustainability, digitalisation and supplier diversity
A panel of leaders reveal how they are balancing cost-saving demands with the function’s broader ambitions
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Enabling transparency through a holistic data strategy
By transforming its approach to data, procurement can take a leading role in supporting strategic enterprise objectives, and become a dynamic business partner.
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Data-enabled supply chain transparency
Although a significant gap exists between organisations’ supply chain transparency aspirations and their current capabilities, teams can take steps to improve
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Driving Digital Contract Transformation ROI
Hear how a global telecommunications company achieved €16M hard savings from its Digital Contract Transformation initiative and discover:
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Proactive resilience: A new source of competitive advantage
In partnership with Interos: Although supply chain mapping may seem a lofty aspiration for the overwhelming majority of companies that have no visibility beyond Tier-1, it is possible – with the right technology
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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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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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Talent emerges as the key to unlocking procurement’s potential
While procurement teams have been widely credited for helping mitigate the impact of supply chain labour shortages, the function is not immune to the increasingly fraught competition for talent
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Attracting, retaining and developing talent in a candidate’s market
Ensuring the function has the skills it needs to succeed – by hiring, keeping and developing talent – is one of procurement’s biggest challenges, but leaders are taking a number of steps to tackle this issue
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PMI’s approach to functional transformation to support a smoke-free future
Philip Morris International has built a new capability development model and a more agile procurement function to support its transition to smoke-free products
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