Procurement Insight
Top ten best practices in Procurement Outsourcing - Everest Group Research
Everest describe the top ten best practices in PO that will help current and prospective PO buyers realise value from their PO engagements. After witnessing a vacillating adoption for over a decade, the Procurement Outsourcing (PO) market is finally coming of age with steadily increasing adoption in the last few years. Years 2010-2011 were the best ever years for PO with 50 or more ne...
Procurement should collaborate more with BPO providers
Adopting a collaborative approach to governance, change management and achieving mutually beneficial outcomes is the key to getting best value out of business process outsourcing (BPO), a research report concludes. Achieving high performance in BPO, published by Accenture, found that 20 per cent of respondents are extracting greater value from their BPO deals than the rest. It identified eig...
Procurement outsourcing deals set to surge in 2012
"It has been a boom rather than a bane," says Saurabh Gupta, vice president at Everest Group, when asked of the impact the economic crisis has had on the procurement outsourcing market. And that sentiment is likely to hold as we move into another year shrouded in uncertainty. Next month Everest produces its annual report detailing developments inprocurement outsourcing during 2011 and the early i...
Honorary Fellowship for Lindsay Tanner
Australia’s former Federal Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Lindsay Tanner has been accorded the rare distinction of a CIPS Honorary Fellowship, the first to be bestowed outside of the UK. Tanner formally received his Honorary Fellowship from CIPS Past President and Optimum Procurement CEO Peter Rushton who was in Australia recently attending the 7th CIPSA Annual Conference. Rushton ...
President's Dinner 2011
Recent tradition dictates that the President of the Institute now hosts a dinner to celebrate the key activities of their year in office and to reflect on the future challenges facing the procurement profession. Optimum Procurement’s CEO, Peter Rushton hosted his Presidents Dinner at Kings Place in London during the final few weeks of his presidency in late 2011. Around 80 VIP g...
