VICTORIA UNIVERSITY
centralised Procurement ensuring ad-hoc ways of purchasing were eliminated by close collaboration with stakeholders , demand planning / forecasting for greater leverage , and contract negotiation .
However , she says : “ Coming to Victoria University , the transformation was multiple in size and complexity compared to Thales .”
Tiong applied Procurement methodologies such as identification of the “ low hanging fruit ”, supply and demand strategies and volume aggregation to improve leverage and market interest and leverage .
Prior to the transformation , for the same product , the same supplier could be charging a different department within the university a range of prices . The product would be delivered to the same location . Tiong identified such areas of lower complexity , describing them as low hanging fruit .
“ There were about 30 categories in this area and we started looking at them within six months of the establishment of the strategy procurement team . We started delivering savings immediately through 74 January 2017