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Gordon Donovan

Global Director Market Research - Procurement & External Workforce at SAP

Melbourne, Australia

Having qualified with a graduate diploma in 1996 and achieving a master’s in strategic procurement, Gordon is widely recognized as a Fellow of CIPS and for his extensive work in procurement as both a practitioner and consultant in the UK and Australia.
Gordon has delivered procurement transformations, strategy development, cost savings, process and service improvements across a wide variety of categories and industries.
Gordon has also designed and implemented a range of assessment regimes to understand the current and future capability requirements for procurement teams. He is a sought-after speaker, writer and presenter, and also a licensed SDI ™ facilitator.
Within SAP Gordon’s role as APJ Intelligent Spend Evangelist aims to infuse procurement and finance thought leadership to our intelligent spend management messaging both internally and externally

Available For: Authoring, Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: Melbourne, Australia
Speaking Topics: Procurement, Transformation, Supply Chain

Gordon Donovan Points
Academic 45
Author 41
Influencer 62
Speaker 155
Entrepreneur 45
Total 348

Points based upon Thinkers360 patent-pending algorithm.

Thought Leader Profile

Portfolio Mix

Company Information

Company Type: Enterprise
Theatre: Asia Pacific

Areas of Expertise

Analytics
Leadership 30.52
Management 30.72
Procurement 44.28
Supply Chain 34.64
Change Management 30.30
ERP 30.12
Future of Work 30.09
FinTech 30.66
Business Continuity 30.61
Digital Disruption 30.14
Digital Transformation 30.36
Sustainability 34.46
Business Strategy 30.08
Social 31.97
Agile 30.04
Risk Management 30.37
Innovation 30.04

Industry Experience

Federal & Public Sector
Financial Services & Banking
Healthcare
Insurance
Pharmaceuticals
Professional Services
Travel & Transportation

Publications

2 Academic Certifications
Masters in Procurement
University of south wales
June 16, 2016
Masters of Management - Strategic Procurement

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Tags: Management, Procurement, Supply Chain

MCIPS
CIPS
January 29, 1998
Graduate member of CIPS

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Tags: Procurement, Supply Chain

1 Academic Fellow / Scholar
FCIPS
CIPS
August 10, 2010
Awarded Fellowship of CIPS

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Tags: Procurement, Supply Chain

1 Academic Whitepaper
In Search of influence
CIPS
July 20, 2016
A STUDY INTO THE CURRENT STATE OF
INFLUENCING SKILLS IN PROCUREMENT,
AND IDEAS FOR THE FUTURE
DEVELOPMENT OF INFLUENCING SKILLS.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Procurement

28 Article/Blogs
Experience Management – Making P2P “Pleasure to Purchase”
Art of Procurement
September 29, 2021
Experience is all the rage. Many advertising campaigns talk about “experiencing peace… tranquillity… adventure…” and many of us have decided to stop shopping or eating at a place because of the experience we had or because of what we have heard about others’ experiences.

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Tags: Procurement, Management, Business Strategy

Procurement With Purpose: The Way To Do Business
Procurement and Supply Australasia (PASA)
August 03, 2021
COVID-19 has emphasised the need for transparency and sustainability in supply chains. It has brought forth the necessity for real-time information across business networks to forecast and interpret the impact of unpredictability and ethically deal with future challenges.

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Tags: Procurement, Leadership

The Big Short
LinkedIn
July 12, 2021
Clearly there has been lots going on that has forced companies to look at inventory levels, do we have too much, do we have not enough. To be fair it’s not brought about solely by the pandemic, but it’s probably been brought more to light because of it.

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Tags: Sustainability, Procurement

You aint seen nothing yet
LinkedIn
June 03, 2021
Those regular readers of mine realize that sometimes I reference song titles ... a lot.. Sorry!

Once again, it’s a report filled month! This month there have been three standouts for me. I’m always a fan of Andrew Bartolini, and its good to read the State of procurement report again. There’s also an interesting Gartner report around navigating supplier management. Supplier Management has never been more important than right now, finally is Sustainability the next paradigm shift for procurement? Well the Oliver Wyman report thinks so, it likens it to when Total Quality Management (TQM) shifted thinking previously. Its an interesting report. As always, love your feedback and comments, and ill be back next month with another report and or article review!

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Tags: Social, Sustainability, Procurement

Procurement's Report Card
LinkedIn
May 25, 2021
It’s been a busy couple of months from a research report perspective this month, with quite a few 2021 reports being launched, sol I thought id write a blog to review a couple of them and see how they agree or disagree with each other.

There’s been some interesting finance and payables reports and news that id like to reflect on.

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Tags: Supply Chain, Procurement, Leadership

Revisionist Procurement Vol 4
LinkedIn
March 29, 2021
The fourth and final part of this series looks at innovation, and how procurement can harness the process of innovation and help procurement drive their agendas

I sat down with Lorraine Longato to discuss these approaches and in our discussion we looked at the disruptive technologies that will impact industries over the next 10 years, how can procurement harness and these and what innovation means for procurement leaders.

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Tags: Innovation, Sustainability, Procurement

Revisionist Procurement Vol 3
LinkedIn
March 10, 2021
The third part on our series of looking at things that are forgotten or misunderstood is all about sustainability. I'd read many articles which had suggested that during the height of the pandemic sustainability had been forgotten about. Id also read many articles taking the alternative viewpoint, that it had made us more aware. Sustainability is such a broad area that it can seem daunting to some, or for others mean to focus on the environmental aspects alone.

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Tags: Sustainability, Procurement, Leadership

Risky Business - Revisionist procurement vol 2
LinkedIn
February 16, 2021
Thanks to all for the positive feedback on the initial procurement revisited blog 2 weeks ago, where we take a look at the overlooked, misunderstood, forgotten about or tried and failed aspects of procurement. Today's blog and video is all about Risk.

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Tags: Sustainability, Procurement

Procurement Revisited
LinkedIn
January 31, 2021
Inspired by this back in 2020 (remember then!) I had a number of conversations with procurement and technology leaders about topics in procurement that may not be front of mind for people, ie maybe they were overlooked, misunderstood, forgotten about or tried and failed.

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Tags: Sustainability, Procurement

Agility, Visibility and Diversity mark three of procurement’s promising, future trends
World Commerce & Contracting
January 29, 2021
I’ve seen several critical trends that I believe procurement will pursue in the next few years. Today, I’m concentrating on the top three. These are in addition to the procurement table stakes1 -- namely cost and supplier management.

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Tags: Supply Chain, Procurement, Agile

The enemy of my enemy is my friend
The Procurement Pracademic
August 22, 2020

All innovation comes from suppliers. That statement comes from Ford and is taken from a Procurement leaders article called the Levers of value. In procurement we constantly seek how we understand and manage our relationships with suppliers, knowing how we sit int their value matrix is essential for our planning.

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Tags: Procurement, Management, Leadership

Digital IQ
LinkedIn
July 26, 2020
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) traces the first uses of the terms ‘digitization’ and ‘digitalization’ in conjunction with computers to the mid-1950s. In the OED, digitization refers to “the action or process of digitizing; the conversion of analogue data (esp. in later use images, video, and text) into digital form.” Digitalization, by contrast, refers to “the adoption or increase in use of digital or computer technology by an organization, industry, country, etc.”

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Procurement

Scenario Planning
Procurement Pracademic
April 07, 2020
Why scenario planning is more important than ever for procurement.

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Tags: Supply Chain, Procurement

WHEN Harry met Jo
Procurement Pracademic
March 06, 2020
An article discussing the use of Johari Windows

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Tags: Procurement, Supply Chain

Show me the money
Procurement Pracademic
December 10, 2019
An article discussing how we manage payments within procurement to increase supplier relationships

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Tags: Procurement, Supply Chain

Reflections on Ariba Live
Linked in
October 15, 2019
Review of recent Ariba Live events

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Tags: ERP, Procurement, Supply Chain

Incentive's behaviors
Linked in
October 15, 2019
We get the behavior we incentivise.

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Tags: ERP, Procurement, Supply Chain

How i met my learning style
Linked in
October 15, 2019
Learning styles

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Tags: Management, Procurement, Supply Chain

Jack of all trades
Linked in
September 05, 2019
Outsourcing for benefit

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Tags: Leadership, Procurement, Supply Chain

The times they are a changing
Linked in
August 06, 2019
Change management the key to procurement transformation

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Tags: Leadership, Procurement, Supply Chain

Whats next
Art of procurement
August 06, 2018
How procurement can develop

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Tags: Procurement, Supply Chain

Whats the story procurement
Art of procurement
March 06, 2017
Storytelling to gain influence

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Tags: Procurement, Supply Chain

Days of future past
Art of procurement
December 08, 2016
Looking back over previous future thinking reports, gives us insights into timing for the next future.

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Tags: Procurement, Supply Chain

Influencing Skills
CIPS/Supply Management
December 08, 2016
How to improve your influencing skills

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Tags: Procurement, Supply Chain

Procurement agility
Linked in
May 03, 2016
How procurement can become more agile

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Tags: Management, Procurement, Supply Chain

In a split second its gone
Linked in
October 06, 2015
Lessons from F1 for procurement

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Tags: Leadership, Procurement, Supply Chain

What does it mean to be commercial
Linked in
August 10, 2015
Understanding of commercial acumen.

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Tags: Leadership, Procurement, Supply Chain

Look behind the Supply Chain Curtain
Marketing Magazine
March 11, 2015
Supply chain disruption in the food sector

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Tags: Procurement, Supply Chain

1 Founder
Procurement Pracademic Website
Procurement Pracademic
August 19, 2019
Website for blogs, thoughts and tools for procurement professionals

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Tags: Procurement

1 Industry Award
Best in Procurement
CIPS
June 04, 2017
Award for best in procurement for people development

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Tags: Procurement

1 Industry Certification
CIPS Certified Assessor
CIPS
May 01, 2017
Assessor of CIPS Certification procurement standards

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Tags: Procurement

6 Keynotes
Sustainable IT Procurement
CIONET
March 17, 2021

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Tags: Sustainability, Procurement

Building resilience in supply chain through digitization
IIMM
December 10, 2020

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Tags: Supply Chain, Procurement

Key Trends in Procurement & Supply Chain
SAP User Group
December 01, 2020
he COVID-19 crisis severely disrupted global supply chains, leading to shortages of essential supplies and companies looking for alternative supply sources while others pivoted to produce and supply new products. Our globally renowned experts Baber Farooq & Gordon Donovan will look at the key trends in Procurement & Supply Chain Management, what are the implications for organisations and what this could mean for your strategy in 2021 and beyond.

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Tags: Procurement

Understanding Corporate Procurement - How to Approach the Private Sector for Sales and New Parternships
Moving Worlds
November 17, 2020
Join us for an interactive webinar featuring Gordon Donovan, a Procurement Leader and Researcher from SAP.

Social enterprises will leave with:
1. A more complete understanding of corporate value(supply/distribution) chains, and opportunities that exist for social enterprises

2. A more complete understanding of what procurement is, and how procurement departments work in big companies

3. Tips on how to start integrating into these chains (i.e. sell directly to the company, look for regional offices, find suppliers, etc.)

4. The value that social enterprises can provide to global value chains, as well as insights on the value proposition that social enterprises should lead with

5. Practical tips on what they can do next to start identifying strategic partnerships in their regions that can lead to revenue + impact growth

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Tags: Social, Procurement

ASUG Chicago, Minnesota, and Wisconsin Chapters: A Conversation with SAP Ariba
SAP
October 27, 2020

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Tags: Supply Chain, Procurement

Why digitising procurement enables organisations high value strategic outcomes
Procurement Australia
August 13, 2019
How procurement can increase value to organisations

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Tags: Procurement

2 Media Interviews
Planning for negotiation
Linked in
June 05, 2019
How to effectively plan for negotiation

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Tags: Leadership, Procurement, Supply Chain

Eliminating slavery from supply chains
BRW
May 29, 2015
Interview with BRW about modern day slavery

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Tags: Procurement, Supply Chain, Sustainability

2 Panels
SG Sustainable Procurement Forum
National Sustainable Procurement Roundtable
November 10, 2020
SG Sustainable Procurement Forum

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Tags: Sustainability, Procurement

EPSA Webinar
EPSA
November 05, 2020
EPSA Webinar and Panel Discussion

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Tags: Supply Chain, Procurement

2 Podcasts
Scaling procurement impact
Art of procurement
August 06, 2018
We start by talking more broadly about capability development, before narrowing in on capability frameworks. A good capability framework is as much of an art than a science, they can be too simplistic, but more often than not get way too complex to be actionable. In our discussion, we explore how to create an effective capability framework that is integrated into the employee assessment process and mapped into the job roles across your procurement group.

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Tags: Supply Chain, Procurement

Influencing Skills in procurement
Art of Procurement
November 07, 2016
Podcast where i was interviewed about influence

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Tags: Change Management, Procurement, Supply Chain

19 Speaking Engagements
Procurement Revisited Episode 3
Linked in
March 10, 2021
In this episdoe, Frank Omare & myself talk sustainability

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Tags: Procurement

Procurement Revisited Episode 2
Linked in
February 16, 2021
IN this ep[episode, myself and Phil Ideson discuss Risk Management and procurement

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Tags: Procurement

Social Procurement - Supplier Event
Akina Foundation
November 05, 2020
Relationships, relationships: Insights on how to navigate big organisations

Join this event to find out practical ways of finding and engaging with the right people within buying organisations.

Our friends at SAP will be sharing practical tips and insights on:

Who to talk to
Who is the right person for you to talk to within large buying organisations?
Where can you find useful information?
How to approach buyers
What are their priorities and drivers?
What are the challenges they face, and how can you make it easy for them to buy from you?
How to talk to them
There will be plenty of time for Q&A so bring along all those questions you've always wanted to ask!

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Tags: Social, Procurement

ASEAN Cross Cultural working practices
IACCM
September 23, 2020
The aim of this session is for delegates to network and learn more about the different ways contracts and commerce are conducted around the globe. Participants will listen and learn from you, the experts, as you talk about cross-cultural communications and behaviors that can lead to misunderstandings.

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Tags: Procurement

Sustainability in Action
SAP
February 21, 2020
Lunch and learn workshop on sustainability

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Tags: Procurement, Sustainability

Sourcing and collaborating with suppliers on direct materials
SAP
February 21, 2020
Lunch and learn workshop on direct purchases

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Tags: Procurement, Supply Chain

Efficient v effective procurement
SAP
February 21, 2020
Exec roundtable on procurement transformation

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Tags: Procurement

Intelligent Spend - The journey to best in class
SAP
October 30, 2019
Hosted a day of speakers, gave open keynote and chaired 2 x panels

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Procurement

Intelligent Spend - The journey to best in class
SAP
October 24, 2019
Hosted a day of speakers, gave open keynote and chaired 2 x panels

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Procurement

Intelligent Spend - The journey to best in class
SAP
October 22, 2019
Hosted a day of speakers, gave open keynote and chaired 2 x panels

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Procurement

Intelligent Spend - The journey to best in class
SAP
October 16, 2019
Hosted a day of speakers, gave open keynote and chaired 2 x panels

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Procurement

Sustainability Conference
SAP Ariba
September 18, 2019
Hosted sustainability conference at Ariba LIve

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Tags: Procurement, Sustainability

Ariba LIve - Guiding outomes
SAP Ariba
September 18, 2019
Hosted panel session with Uni of Sydney

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Procurement

Ariba LIve - Customer value journey
SAP Ariba
September 18, 2019
On panel session with medibank

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Procurement

Executive briefing
SAP Ariba
September 18, 2019
Ran a breakfast series for executives on procurement evolution

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Procurement

Big Ideas
Linked in
September 05, 2019
Understanding our supply chain

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Tags: Leadership, Procurement, Supply Chain

Executive briefing
SAP Ariba
August 21, 2019
Ran a breakfast series for executives on procurement evolution

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Procurement

The Procurement Revolution: We Get the Behavior that We Incentivize
Art of procurement
July 05, 2016
The Procurement Revolution was a virtual, global, multi-media movement aimed at getting procurement professionals to stand up, speak out, and drive change.

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Tags: Procurement

Big Ideas
Procurious
August 03, 2015
Big Ideas

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Tags: Procurement, Supply Chain

1 Steering Committee Membership
IACCM Asia Pac member
IACCM
July 02, 2020
IACCM Council member

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Tags: Supply Chain, Procurement

2 Videos
Revisionist Procurement Vol 2
Linked in
February 16, 2021
This video is all about Risk Management, in it I sit down with Phil Ideson and we go through the business case for risk management, and building closer relationships with suppliers.

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Tags: Procurement, Risk Management

Procurement Revisited Episode 1
Procurement Pracademic
February 01, 2021
A series of discussions with thought leaders about little know n procurement areas.

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Tags: Procurement

11 Webinars
From the backroom to the boardroom
SAP
November 18, 2020
A webinar about social procurement and SAP 5, and 5 by 25

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Tags: Social, Procurement

Consumer Packaged Goods Supply Chain resilience post Pandemic
ISCM
September 10, 2020

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Tags: Supply Chain, Procurement

Payments reimagined
SAP Ariba
September 03, 2020
Webinar on the changing aspects of payments

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Tags: FinTech, Procurement

LIfe Sciences and chemical supply chain resiliance post pandemic
ISCM
September 03, 2020

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Tags: Supply Chain, Procurement

Path to procurement digitisation
SAP
August 06, 2020
A key part of an organization's digital transformation journey is that every business function needs to be re-tooled and re-imagined for how it affects the customers. Supply Chain. Finance. HR. And yes, procurement. The global health crisis has accelerated the pace of digitization as businesses, governments, and communities navigate the new normal. What does the digital future bring to procurement?

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Procurement

Making a difference in the communities you operate in
SAP
June 10, 2020
Webinar about how to drive liquidity in the supply chain

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Tags: FinTech, Supply Chain, Procurement

Supply Chain Finance
PASA
May 22, 2020
PASA Webinar on Supply Chain finance

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Tags: FinTech, Procurement

Driving Efficiencies in public sector procurement
Public Sector Network
May 21, 2020
NSW procurement reform requires an agile approach.

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Tags: Supply Chain, Procurement

New Frontiers in Procurement Planning
ISCM
May 20, 2020
This pandemic has brought about an unprecedented supply shock with the lockdown of china and then a demand shock with the global spread of the pandemic. How have firms managed business continuity by securing supply bases, unlocking funds, and forging a partnership? What's their localization and diversification strategy. It was realized that firms will have to map their deep tier supplier structure using digital tools and create a resilient strategy.

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Tags: Supply Chain, Procurement, Business Continuity

Managing an External Workforce in a Crisis
SAP
May 19, 2020
How several organisations have managed external workforce using technology

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Tags: Supply Chain, Procurement, Future of Work

Taxonomy for procurement
PASA
May 04, 2020
PASA Webinar on Taxonomy best practice

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Tags: Procurement

1 Workshop
The Finance and Procurement Agility Virtual Roundtable
The Orteus Club
March 11, 2021
An exclusive online discussion for procurement executives from various sectors in Singapore

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Tags: Procurement

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No longer the enemy.....
Thinkers360
August 13, 2020
Digital transformation means re imagining processes and relationships. Thinking about how our suppliers are impacted and actively seek to improve their experience is key to fueling innovation which delivers customer delight.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Procurement

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