It’s been a constant theme that the editorial team at Procurement Leaders keeps hearing about – how procurement can sell itself better; not only to the wider business, but to the wider business world, to university students, to business schools and so on. 

While much has been said of procurement being the opposite side of the same coin to sales, I wonder how much of that is true. How capable are we really of selling ourselves and of letting the ignorant know of the huge potential that procurement holds for both business improvement and career satisfaction?

• Procurement manages our contract manufacturing and services supply base, responsible for the quality, delivery, innovation, and cost competitiveness of our extended supply chain capabilities.
• Facilitates developing your character by following practice of clearly defining the scope, coordinating and balancing actions of all participants involved in course of achieving goal.
• Effective procurement is informed, pro-active and transparent. It engenders change to optimise value for money and time to market to maximise the organisation’s competitive advantage.
• Purchasing is business’s single greatest profit center. Every dollar saved earns many multiple times the profit earned by all other pursuits combined.
• Is your business wasting money, time and market opportunities through procurement best practice ignorance? Solution – get serious about ALL procurement matters and boost your profits.
• Be responsible for spending millions of pounds of other people’s money on world changing technologies; make your future a career in Procurement