How can procurement add more value?
Procurement did in the past not always receive the management attention it should. This situation has changed in many organisations, but I wonder whether the potential added value of the procurement department / function is fully used yet. What I try to explore in this post is finding out what the enablers are to unleash the full potential of procurement. I have for example seen situations where the business engaged in (out)sourcing without (hardly any) involvement from procurement. Some of my thoughts to change this are: Organise procurement as a process, not as a function If one would define procurement as: is ‘the total of activities and performed in order to effectively and efficiently provide the organisation with all products and services it needs to perform deliver its endproducts and –services to its customer’ than procurement is something that does not stop at the boundaries of a department. It would be a process consisting of a number of activities, clustered in processes, w...