strategic function

The Future of Procurement – 5 challenges to the profession & strategic function

Jeremy Kirsten, MCIPS, puts pen to paper about where the procurement profession has come from, and where it is going. Procurement as a profession is, I believe, in its infancy, as it only came into its own in the late 1980’s. Its growth from the mid 1990’s to date has been phenomenal. When I first […]

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Where do we go from strategic sourcing?

  Michael Porter developed his well known Value Chain Model in 1985, in which he asserted that procurement was a support activity – an exercise that aided inbound and outbound logistics, operations, marketing and the provision of services to generate profit for an enterprise. Although the model has relevance today, procurement has come a long

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