8 November 2017

CPOs – becoming Board-relevant and building stronger relationships with senior execs

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Even though the Procurement function is becoming critical to business success, it all too often remains seen as driving cost savings rather than being worthy of a seat at the Board table in determining and helping to drive broad corporate value. However, working on the Board of Greensill Capital, a global supply chain finance specialist […]

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Whose services are your really procuring?

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The workforce is fundamentally changing and it’s increasingly important that you can access the skills you need when, where and how you need them. But with the increase in corporate usage of external workers comes additional challenges and risks. Toni Jackson, Director of APAC at Fieldglass, an SAP company, in Sydney, unpacks the implications.

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Leadership Profile: Yogan Naidu

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This month SmartProcurement profiles Yogan Naidu, from Woolworths. Full name: Yogan Naidu Position: Head of Procurement Your organisation’s procurement expenditure: A lot! Who does P&SM report to: Group Finance Director

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Digital innovation moves procurement risk and transparency forward

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The act of obtaining or buying goods for business can be extremely complex. Compounded by numerous risks and time-consuming tasks, the additional pressures of procurement (like planning, supplier research, value analysis, price negotiation, contracts administration and inventory control) only add to the overall stress of the job. With so much to consider, the need for

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The changing face of the procurement office – a digital revolution

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Bound by the challenges of reducing costs, managing supplier risks and ensuring financial and regulatory changes in policies, chief procurement officers (CPOs) have a tall order. Sarah George, ERP/EPM Cloud Applications Business Development and Product Strategy Manager at Oracle, unpacks the changing digital face of the procurement office, in this month’s SmartProcurement.

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Pushing the “easy button” on self-service sourcing – Q&A with Salesforce and Oracle’s former CPO

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Greg Tennyson is the CPO of VSP Global, where he leads transformative change. He is the former VP and CPO (source-to-settle and expense-to-settle) at Salesforce and Oracle. In part 3 of the conversation with ScoutRFP, Greg talks tech and “self-service sourcing” in the final segment on changing sourcing behaviours.

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Is fragmentation in corporate travel playing havoc with your policy?

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Corporates, suppliers and travel management companies (TMCs) need to work together to help improve transparency and reduce the impact of fragmentation on costs and efficiencies. What is fragmentation? It’s when staff try to book travel within their travel policy but are forced to access different sites to source that travel other than the company’s preferred

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October sees 5 major PMI subcomponents increase

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The seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) continued its upward trend in October 2017, rising by 2.9 points to reach 47.8. This was the third consecutive increase and brought the index to its best level since May 2017. Nonetheless, the PMI remained stuck below the neutral 50-point mark.

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