The challenges of 2024 created turbulence for businesses navigating supply chain sustainability and ethical sourcing strategies. Rapid regulatory changes, geopolitical tensions and data innovations complicated the sustainability landscape and redefined how we perceive environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and strategies. What does this mean for businesses in 2025?
Fayola-Maria Jack, CEO at Resolutiion talks artificial intelligence, how it is transforming humanity, business and the procurement and supply sector, especially when it comes to dispute resolution.
Dan Fielding, Co-Managing Director and John Pisani, Director, Victoria & Tasmania, at leading consultancy firm ArcBlue reveal how procurement can prove its worth to the wider organisation, how to lead a team and the common barriers to joining a leadership team.
Following on from our popular CIPS Excellence webinar in September, Digitising procurement: Insights from award-winning transformation programmes, Jag Lamba, CEO and founder of Certa, provides some useful insight.
Businesses constantly face challenges in managing their procurement processes — including disjointed workflows, erroneous data entry, low visibility into operations, and stretched payment cycles. These issues not only upset operational efficiency but also translate into substantial financial losses and strain in supplier relationships.
Madeleina Loughrey-Grant, Group Director – Legal, Procurement (EU) and Sustainability at Laing O’Rourke talks about ambitious net zero planning, cleaning up supply chains and the transformation of construction and engineering.
We sat down with Dr Sebastian Moritz, an award-winning expert in game theory, to discuss how it is best applied to the procurement and supply chain industry.
Supply chain and procurement organisations face a double whammy of struggling to recruit employees who possess the critical skills they need, while retaining the existing skilled employees who make their businesses tick.
Distance is increasingly viewed as a risk factor that can be mitigated in supply chains through strategic sourcing. A recent report from Skills Dynamics explains the importance of increasing resilience with a more considered approach
All NHS organisations are now able to benefit from a centrally maintained eCommercial system, designed to help procurement teams improve commercial efficiency, gain greater visibility over spend and reduce risk.
Skill Dynamics surveyed more than 200 supply chain and procurement professionals on both sides of the Atlantic, about their organisations’ sustainability initiatives, practices, policies and the barriers they may be experiencing in achieving their goals. Here are some of the key takeaways
Global crises and uncertainty demand new priorities to prepare for the future
After two tough years of trying to keep the wheels rolling for their organisations, procurement departments are emerging into the light with the potential to make strategic decisions rather than simply survive.
