Are you a Procurement person in the business, or a business person in Procurement?

For a few organizations, procurement is considered a ‘blocker’ preventing growth and success, and regarded as disconnected from business goals.

Procurement have a level of risk management responsibility, but this should not be applied with total disregard of the needs of the business. Our ability to build a collaborative relationship with the business requires procurement to act as business managers. We are all on the same team and have a common goal to ensure the business succeeds.

Procurement transformation is more than finding the right technology platform, it is changing the mindset and establishing a service centric approach with an attitude to succeed. Too often technology is applied to support a risk adverse, user unfriendly procurement transaction experience. This is a fundamental failure of procurement to understand its true value proposition and leverage the technology in the right way.

This does not mean we should be meek and afraid to challenge the business; our agenda should be to challenge and transform, thereby unlocking 10 x business contribution. Transform requires Procurement to understand the business challenges and pioneer a new approach. Set the vision. Technology enables humans. Become the business enabler! Lead change.

We are Bold, Optimistic, Human-Centric, Pioneering, Responsible.

We are Dreamers Who Do.

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