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Future of Procurement Talent – ProcureAbility
In this Future of Procurement Talent Insights whitepaper, we expand on the concepts set forth in the recently published ProcureAbility’s . We’ll focus exclusively on exploring the topics related to forward-looking insights for staffing and recruiting and how these best practices can help with recruiting top talent, hiring the right people, and fuel a procurement organization’s long-term growth.

Perhaps it’s time for procurement to be deregulated? – Supply Chain Partner
Being the first to penetrate a particular industry niche often results in substantial rewards. Building or growing an organization and even recovering from supply chain interruptions are all about first-mover advantage. Speed, urgency, agility, and innovation dominate. There is no time for ‘business as usual’. But Procurement is not keeping up with the pace. Procurement departments need to elevate their role from process owner and executor to process enabler and advisor. According to Gartner, for the last two years, as many as 20 percent of surveyed organizations have been bypassing their procurement function. Procurement support functions are not evolving fast enough to keep up with the pace, volume, and complexity that their organizations need. It’s time to introduce self-service sourcing into your organizations.

Process Orchestration 101: A Primer for Procurement on Process Orchestration – Tonkean
Now more than ever, procurement teams need a way of better leveraging, optimizing, and managing their organization’s unique mix of people, processes, and technology – in other words, of orchestrating and simplifying the process experiences they provide, such that they can begin to help drive their organizations forward with greater velocity and scale. Process orchestration technology offers a way to do that. This updated version of Process Orchestration 101 (V2), incorporates the most recent learnings and contextualizes the growing enthusiasm to provide a step-by-step guide for leveraging this “paradigm-shifting” technology effectively and completely.

The Executive Guide to Procurement Orchestration – Zip
In this paper, we will dig into the why and how of procurement orchestration. We will explore its significance for Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and executive leaders of all company sizes across various industries and reveal the technology that makes it work. We’ll uncover the building blocks of orchestration, its impact on procurement’s evolving role, and why it’s not just important but essential for leaders seeking to harness the full strategic potential of the procurement function.