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5 reasons why technology is your ticket to sustainable success
To ensure your sustainable procurement program is a winner, there’s one clear ticket to success – technology. Here are five great reasons why.

How Sustainable Procurement Leaders are Delivering Results Today
Day 7 and despite black swans a-swimming, if 2021 taught us anything, it’s that procurement needs to take the lead when it comes to ensuring sustainability. Sustainability: once a nice-to-have, now a must-have for many, with customers expecting it, governments requiring it and our world needing it. While many organisations have taken baby steps, few … Continue reading How Sustainable Procurement Leaders are Delivering Results Today

3 Ways to Get Sustainable Procurement Off the Ground – Even If You’re Not in Charge!
Feel like your organisation could be doing more in its sustainability efforts? The good news is you can make an impact… even if you aren’t the boss!

6 Strategies to Improve Your Ethical Sourcing
Here are the best strategies of how to improve your ethical sourcing, based on report findings and my own experience working with many innovative procurement leaders.

How Sustainable Procurement Leaders are Delivering Results Today
Sustainability: once a nice-to-have, now a must-have for many, with customers expecting it, governments requiring it and our world needing it.

7 Simple Ways to Become a Customer of Choice
You might have good relationships with your suppliers. But are they good enough to get you preferential treatment? Here’s your guide to winning them over. It’s no secret: companies with close supplier relationships during the pandemic were far more likely to gain preferred access and keep goods flowing. Closer relationships help in many other ways … Continue reading 7 Simple Ways to Become a Customer of Choice

How to Supercharge Supplier Diversity Initiatives with Technology
It’s time to move beyond any vague promise of increasing supplier diversity and enact real change.

How Tech Can Heal Wounds of the Past and Make Us More Resilient for the Future
While many of the wounds inflicted on Procurement and Supply Chains seem irreparable, Technology may prove the magic elixir we need for the healing to begin. We speak to Alex Saric, CMO – iValua. ‘Every day is a new beginning,’ – T.S.Eliot And when it comes to procurement, that advice seems to ring especially true … Continue reading How Tech Can Heal Wounds of the Past and Make Us More Resilient for the Future

How to Build Procurement Influence
We successfully leveraged the COVID-era attention we got – now how does Procurement remain relevant and authoritative in the long term? Alex Saric shares how to build the influence to make your presence felt. The pandemic has had widespread adverse effects, from health to finances to education. Yet for procurement leaders it has also been … Continue reading How to Build Procurement Influence

7 Tips For Today’s Procurement Managers
Alex Saric shares his top tips for procurement managers in order to succeed as the profession continues to evolve. As the role of procurement continues to evolve, a new approach is required. Leaders are actively transforming their organisations, with a new mindset, new processes and new technology. There is no textbook answer to all of … Continue reading 7 Tips For Today’s Procurement Managers