Category report: Software development
More than 80% of buyers believe that innovation and performance are the most important stakeholder criteria when selecting a software developer
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Procurement Leaders Resources
- Category Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Developing Skills
- Supplier Management
- Procurement Technology
- Strategy & Org Design
Discovery’s approach to spend analytics in category management
Category managers use a purpose-built spend analytics tool to review historical spending, identify sourcing opportunities and develop their savings goals
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The four technologies set to transform category management
Be it through automation or analytics, developments in new and existing technologies promise a step-change in category management performance
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A telecoms company’s approach to using AI for scenario planning
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Next-generation category management
Facing internal and external pressures, CPOs must embrace new structures, value drivers and technologies
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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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Inhibitors to strong stakeholder management
Effective stakeholder mapping, engagement, and collaboration are essential to organisations looking to become valued partners to other functions within the business.
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Playbook: Stakeholder management
Procurement teams must engage and collaborate with stakeholders throughout the business to ensure their activity is aligned with the organisation’s objectives and value drivers
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Stakeholder feedback tool
Collect feedback so as to suit the type of stakeholder, the lines of enquiry and how the team will use the feedback to support the stakeholder management strategy
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Boosting innovation, agility and connectivity
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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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Developing the procurement team of the future
With CPOs committed to developing their staff, procurement excellence heads discuss best practice in rolling out talent development schemes
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Bank of America’s approach to graduate talent development
The US-based financial services giant puts graduate hires through a two-year rotational programme to expose them to a wide variety of roles and embed them within the procurement function.
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A manufacturing company’s approach to sourcing manager competency frameworks
This company developed a new sourcing competency framework, based on four key principles and nine competencies, that would allow it to measure the strengths of its talent and target improvements.
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Rolls-Royce – CPO Spotlight interview: Digitalisation and user empowerment
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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
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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
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Ferring’s approach to embedding supplier management processes across the whole organisation
The pharmaceutical company leveraged expertise in its business units to tackle risk and drive supplier performance
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Impactful supplier diversity programmes
The topic of supplier diversity has garnered increasing attention over the past few years as organisations look to boost diversity and inclusion while also providing much needed resilience and flexibility to their supply chains.
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Managing the supplier life cycle in a digital age
Although SLM tools have grown more sophisticated, procurement teams have yet to find a solution that enables them to manage, interpret and incorporate all available data into their decision-making
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Connecting the dots: Five procurement teams turning data into valuable insights
From fighting fraud to rooting out rogue spending, these procurement functions are using their data in new, valuable ways
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DSM’s approach to developing a holistic digital platform strategy
The pharmaceutical company leveraged expertise in its business units to tackle risk and drive supplier performance
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How data and technology can improve insight into supply chain ESG performance
Given the bulk of most businesses’ environmental impact occurs in their supply chains, ensuring that the supply base is sustainable has become a priority for most procurement teams
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How CPOs are embracing the future of data-driven decision making
The PL community shares its approach to making the most of procurement’s data.
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Data driven decisions: analytics as a driver of resilience
This virtual roundtable explored the link between data and resiliency and how analytics can be a driver of more resilient supply chains.
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Three companies driving revenue growth through procurement and supply chain
With businesses anticipating a return to growth in 2021, the most progressive CPOs are finding creative ways they can impact the top line
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Procurement as a growth engine
Research from the procurement community reveals how leading functions drive revenue growth and measure their top-line contribution
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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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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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Value propositions for procurement
Procurement teams aspiring to demonstrate value-add capabilities to business partners should formalise a value statement for their function.
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