8. Cloud technology
Reduces
investment
cost and risk
in technology
Accelerates
access to
eProcurement
solutions
Positively
changes the
eProcurement
business case
Facilitates
access to
procurement
intelligence
…
9. Mobile
Liberates from the desk top
Brings access to information ‘on the go’
Brings access to information to your device of
choice
Improves productivity
26. IF YOU COULD CAPTURE, MINE,
LINK & LOOK FOR PATTERNS IN
PROCUREMENT DATA …
What strategic information would you want?
27. Strategic procurement advantage
• Predict the demand/level of consumption of a good/service and help
profile demand;
• Predict the optimum supplier capability and capacity required to
deliver a required outcome in a given situation, and therefore reduce
paying for over-capacity;
• Identify the costs which could be removed to deliver a given solution;
• Predict supplier behaviour and their likely negotiating responses;
• Predict the optimum form of contract pricing, for example, fixed price,
rise and fall, index linked;
• Predict the optimum contract term;
• Predict the most advantageous time to 'go to market';
• Predict the optimum period required to solicit the best bid;
• Predict the optimum budget and whole life costs;
• Identify the key areas to focus on in contract management;
• Predict procurement risk profiles and optimum mitigation strategies;
• ...
29. WHAT WOULD YOU RECOMMEND
TO A CPO AS THE 3 PRIORITIES IN
RESPECT OF DIGITALAND
PROCUREMENT?
30. Recommendations for embracing digital
procurement strategy
1. Ensure your social media policy reflects procurement needs;
2. Review you eProcurement investment plans and challenge the business case on the
availability of SaaS platforms;
3. Review your Applications Portfolio, ‘As is’ and ‘To be’ to make optimal use of integration
potential;
4. Review your Applications Portfolio for business needs – if a business need exists but a
solution is not presently available, issue a challenge to the market design an App;
5. Review your use of mobile technology to determine investment plans, establish
opportunities for cost reduction and have a clear policy on BOYD;
6. Review you approach to flexible working to gain maximum advantage of digital
technology;
7. Review the potential positive and negative impacts of social media on procurement,
develop a proactive plan to use conversations to achieve strategic objectives and
mitigate the risk of profile damage;
8. Understand what the business needs are for procurement intelligence and develop an
integrated approach to Big Data analytics;
9. Complete a training needs analysis and reflect in a learning and development plan;
10.Develop a Digital Procurement Strategy and performance manage.