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  • Matthew Eatough, CEO
  • Guy Strafford, Chief Client Officer
  • Tom Lawrence, Chief Communications Officer
  • Vinod (Vinny) Patel, Commercial Director
  • Chris Gayner, Head of Marketing

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'Shareholder Spring' presents silver lining for procurement

  
  
  
  
Guy Strafford - buyingTeam

The opportunity to deliver enhanced shareholder value remains, even amid darker storm clouds.

Reducing Marketers' scepticism of Procurement's value-add

  
  
  
  
Proxima - Procurement Outsourcing

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.

Overcoming M&A challenges through centralisation

  
  
  
  
Chris linkedin blog

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.

How your business can apply more intelligence to the budgeting process

  
  
  
  
Guy Strafford - buyingTeam

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.

Predictions for procurement in 2022

  
  
  
  
Tom Lawrence - Proxima

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.

Understanding the wants and needs of the North American CFO

  
  
  
  
Tom Lawrence - Proxima

The need for Procurement to better serve their Finance colleagues has never been greater.

Q1 in review: A need for innovative cost management

  
  
  
  
Guy Strafford - buyingTeam

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.

Can better cost management really improve profitability?

  
  
  
  
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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.

Is indirect procurement following the path taken by the HR function?

  
  
  
  
Guy Strafford - buyingTeam

An excerpt from our upcoming whitepaper takes a comparative look at the HR business partner concept and the changing role of indirect procurement.

Do you feel procurement is under-appreciated & under-invested in your organisation?

  
  
  
  
Chris linkedin blog

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.

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