Procurement News

April seems to have been a particularly important month for ‘new starts’ this year. With the first stages of lockdown easing in England seeing some businesses opening up again and the start of the new tax year.

Does your business know that it needs some procurement support but you aren’t sure what exactly you need in terms of skill set or whether your spend justifies employing a full time resource?

Too often Procurement is associated with saving money – unit prices, total contract value, rebates. But for most organisations the value that our expertise can deliver can be so much more.

Rory Canavan of SAM Charter offers some pointers on what to watch out for when it comes to applying a pinch of SAM best practice to Software Contract / Vendor Management.

It may sound obvious that negotiation is an important part of any procurement strategy, however there is more to negotiation than people sometimes think.

Meaning: Significant strength… well we are certainly experiencing an event of significant strength with the current global pandemic.

It sets out, in a logical format, the past, present and future landscape of your procurement function and how it supports the wider business strategy. That is it!