scoutbee - From Reactive to Proactive: Changing the Role of Procurement

Lizzie Black
January 17, 2022

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Procurement managers face challenges daily.

The pace, pressure and importance of procurement, with a focus on strategic sourcing is increasing.

Chris Kaiser, Sales Team Lead at scoutbee, discusses why procurement should increase its focus on value creation to enable strategic choices.

Some of the topics covered

Increased resilience
Corporate sustainability
Change investor and consumer demand
Need for innovation
New regulations
Faster time to market
Global pandemic or natural disaster
Increased (competitive) pressure
More diversity
New technologies or alternative materials
Gather the right data sets and make it clean
Enrich the data so you can analyse and act on it -> strategic sourcing
Then identify suppliers, projects, processes etc
Global supplier visibility
Speed and transparency
Savings and sustainability

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