Some of the key contributors to this blog will include (but not limited to):
Procurement Outsourcing Risks and Rewards
Direct v Indirect Procurement - Market Intelligence Survey Findings and Whitepaper
Indirect procurement is changing - are you?
What's in a name?
Procurement and Profitability - The Opportunity for UK PLC
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The opportunity to deliver enhanced shareholder value remains, even amid darker storm clouds.
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A few articles have begun to crop up around Procurement's relationship with various business stakeholders (their customers) - with Finance being a primary focal point. However, another pot has begun to bubble from discussions heating up around the value Procurement teams' can deliver their Marketing department.
Deloitte recently published a high-level report, covering Q1 2012, on what North America’s top finance executives are thinking. This post takes a look at how CFOs can potentially overcome some of the growing challenges associated with new M&A activity during a sluggish economy.
Over recent months there have been several articles written on the topic of Finance and Procurement coming together for the greater good. Following on from this theme, this post looks at what value Procurement can bring to the overall budgeting process.
Part of our job as a service provider is to think about the future of procurement, so that we build solutions to problems organisations don’t know they have yet. I want to share with you one major change we predict will occur over the next 10 years.
The need for Procurement to better serve their Finance colleagues has never been greater.
The first quarter of 2012 has come to a close, but familiar challenges persist. This post, taken from our latest e-newsletter, looks at some of the themes which clients and many others have raised with us, and from which we have drawn a number of observations.
Many UK businesses are facing deteriorating financial performance as a result of challenging economic times. Now, more than ever, the focus on cost management is at an all-time high as business leaders try to safe guard profits while maintaining competitiveness and generating value for stakeholders.
An excerpt from our upcoming whitepaper takes a comparative look at the HR business partner concept and the changing role of indirect procurement.
Our recent research has found that, in many cases, the traditional procurement skill-sets drive the direction of a procurement function - focussing on year-on-year savings. Too little focus is on influencing behaviours and achieving alignment between procurement and the business units.