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Executive Briefing: November, 2018

Forum: November, 2018

The Crystal, London

DITX 2017 is Europe’s ONLY event specifically designed for procurement professionals wanting to capitalise on a whole new set of digital opportunities that disrupt yet provide new transformative, value adding capabilities for procurement.

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Agile Procurement: Thriving through Disruption

6th Annual World Procurement Congress London

Executive Briefings - 15 May, 2018
Congress - 16-17 May, 2018

World Procurement Congress organised by Procurement Leaders is the undisputed leader in the field, featuring cutting-edge content and real life case studies from inspiring speakers.

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Latest whitepapers

3 Stages on a successful Source to Pay implementation Journey

Once you’ve selected a Source to Pay (S2P) product, what happens next? This whitepaper explores the journey you should undergo for a successful S2P implementation, examines the change programme principles to consider along the way and how to deliver key benefits.

Managing the Financial Supply Chain: Why CPOs should care

This white paper considers how businesses manage their Financial Supply Chain and the contribution that the CPO can and should make.

What is the value of the RFx process? Is it worth it?

Are you looking to choose a new implementation partner or P2P software provider? This whitepaper gives recommendations on running a successful RFx process that ensures the best solution outcome.

Creating a World Class Procurement Organisation - A Transformational Journey

To be world class, procurement needs to be seen and positioned as a more valued partner in the organisation, with a strategic role at the top table. In this white paper, we will guide you through what it means to be world class, how to transform to a more strategic procurement business and establish how you can quickly reap the benefits.

Moving to a procurement cloud: The 5 steps to consider

This whitepaper explores, from an IT and business perspective, what companies need to think about when looking to implement cloud procurement technology,Â rather than on-premise and what the ultimate impact on the business will be.

Best Practices For Complex Sourcing Events

Sourcing systems have been around for years, and most have advanced functionality that is rarely used.

The "buy chain" the next place for world-class

Explore the different options for financing and de-risking the supply chain and gain valuable insight into the possible benefits that could be achieved with the right technology and processes in place.

eAuction Success

The difference between an organisation that runs many auctions a year versus the one that runs none is simply this first step. If they are run an eAuction according to the golden rules of success, ensuring fairness, transparency and excellent communication, an auction should be positive for both buyer and supplierâ€¦

Successful Sourcing: From functioning to flying. An insider's guide

What is it that sets apart a good procurement function, from a fantastic one? Great people, empowered by a fitting structure, executing slick processes, whilst harnessing best-of-breed technology? The answer is of course, all of the above. But even with all these on tap, many organisations are still not achieving their full sourcing potential.

Is there a significant impact from well adopted systems?

How to increase adoption of your e-procurement solutions

Are you still pushing paper? How to Become Paperless and Why Some Don't Make it

E-Invoicing isn’t the most exciting area of procurement - but it can deliver savings, improve relationships and open up new possibilities. This paper explores the genuine benefits (and costs) associated with setting up e-invoicing, how to measure them, common pitfalls (and how to avoid them) and the bit that’s most often missed - what to do next?

A framework for successful procurement - Part Two

The organisation views procurement as an inconvenient and possibly unnecessary step in the process of securing the goods or services required.

A framework for successful procurement

"The organisation views procurement as an inconvenient possibly unnecessary step in the process of securing the goods or services required." The type of comment above is typically hear by organisations at one point or another in their growth. This paper provides the framework for senior procurement practitioners to break through this barrier. It is one part of a two part series.

Procurement Business Intelligence

Your procurement organisation needs to respond intelligently as you are driven to deliver greater savings, increase efficiency, manage risk and increasingly, play a more strategic role in your business’ direction. The need for insightful and accurate information at your fingertips has become more crucial than ever. This paper breaks down procurement business intelligence into four core areas and explores how you can make the most of your data.

Supplier Relationship Management - How to Make it Work.

The pressure for companies to create economic value and deliver greater returns has resulted in a significant focus on the performance of procurement across the organisation. As a result, more and more companies are looking to create value through the concept of supplier relationship management (SRM), but many are struggling to get the publicised benefits. This paper explains the key principles that need to be adopted to ensure success.

Intelligent Supplier Rationalisation

Vendor management is a 3-stage process seeing the On-boarding, Management and finally Off-boarding of suppliers through the business. Whilst the first often draws the most attention, it’s intelligent management and off-boarding of the supplier stock where smart procurement leaders are finding significant value.

What really separates top Procurement performers from the rest?

While organisations need to get the mechanical aspects of Procurement right - their technology, processes, policies, data, organisational structure - it is the people and their behaviours that really differentiate the top performers from the rest.