Procurement & Supply Chain Themes

Management Innovation Networks - Procurement & Supply Chain

• Driving cost out and value in: supply chain and procurement as sources of business advantage
• Sustainability and CSR in the supply chain: carbon, business design, ICT
• Risk management (guideline released, March 2010): a best practice framework and the role of SRM
• Practice design and management: governance, management and control of operations
• Business engagement in the sourcing process: planning and cross functional working
• Outsourcing, shared services and managed services: managing an external procurement process
• Operating models for demand management
• Globalisation of processes: management models for delivering consistency
• Consumer driven supply chain: better customer outcomes through supply chain and procurement
• Capability building and talent management strategies: in supply chain and procurement teams, and in the business