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Today , the procurement operations at Becton Dickinson ( BD ) – the global medical technology company – are admired and respected across the industry spectrum , with collaboration and joined-up thinking from the company ’ s procurement teams driving forward the medical equipment giant which turned over more than $ 12bn in 2016 .
But what you see today is the result of a near two-decade effort to make BD ’ s procurement functions best-in-class . The transformation began in 1999 , a time when the company ’ s procurement was decentralized , fragmented and not perceived to be especially important in the grand scheme of all things BD . In total , BD ’ s core procurement team numbered four .
One of the first ambitions for the procurement function was developing effective category management and sourcing , as well as delivering demonstrable value to the business as a whole . That gave BD a base from which to build into what is now a truly global end-to-end procurement operation , with various skilled and
knowledgeable teams – including source-to-pay , indirect , risk and supplier management to name a few – working together for the benefit of the wider company .
From a team of just four less than 20 years ago , BD ’ s present-day procurement function is home to more than 180 employees and growing , who work towards carefully planned three and five-year roadmaps .
86 March 2018