PROCUREMENT TRANSFORMATION
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“ Accepting diversity allows different perspectives within a business ”
— Wael Safwat , Procurement Director at Black & McDonald and Chairman of CIPS Canada
Despite this progress , bringing procurement to the C-suite remains a work in progress worldwide . “ Different organisations are going through different maturity journeys ,” explains Wael Safwat , Procurement Director at Black & McDonald and Chairman of CIPS Canada . “ For some , it ’ s about cost savings and getting the lowest cost , but for a lot of medium and larger organisations it ’ s more about focusing on value creation and business enablement .”
As businesses take steps to really invest in procurement , how can the case for this be pushed ? “ You need to understand what the objectives of the organisations are and what the goals at the top level are ,” says Parthasarathy . “ You need to be able to sit with each C-suite member and understand what challenges they are facing – what is the roadmap ? How can you remove pain points for others in the organisation ? That ’ s really a unique ability because procurement is able to see
JUNE 2019