5 Ways to Make the Most of your CIPS Membership in 2021
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by Procurious HQ
3y ago
You’ve got the membership, but how are you going to make the most of it in the year to come? Check out our five top tips. As we enter 2021,  it’s a chance for both professionals and organisations to reap the benefits of their CIPS memberships. There are several advantages to this, but there are a few which could really help to move us all forward and ensure the profession remains aligned with organisational goals and strategies. We’ve picked out our top five below. 1.       Chartership We know we’ve discussed this in other articles but that doesn’t mean we can’t emphasise ..read more
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Alarmingly, There Are 419 Of These Threats Per Minute. Are Your Suppliers Protected?
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by Procurious HQ
3y ago
Cyber crime is increasing and it could seriously impact your suppliers. Here’s how to protect yourself. Congratulations. You’re the one millionth visitor to this site and you’ve won the jackpot! Click here to collect your prize. *Cue computer meltdown.”  When it comes to cyber crime, we have all seen the badly-spelled emails or pop-ups, and we all think we know better. But did you know that cybercrime is becoming more sophisticated than ever, and that this year, there was a mind-boggling 419 threats recorded per minute? For those of us who work in large organisations, fortunately we are ..read more
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How (And Why) You Need To Hire Diverse Candidates
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by Procurious HQ
3y ago
Diversity of all types in hiring is important – and more beneficial than you’d think! Here’s why and how you can hire more diverse candidates. Diversity is nothing new, and we all know that it’s important. But somehow, knowing doesn’t always lead to action when it comes to hiring, especially at leadership levels. From a gender perspective, less than 10% of all supply chain executives are women, and candidates who identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous or People of Colour) also remain underrepresented. Beyond this, the pay gap in procurement remains very real, something that may worsen as we und ..read more
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Negotiating With Empathy & Respect Doesn’t Make You Weak
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by Procurious HQ
3y ago
Stop fearing negotiations! Learn how to reframe them from conflict to mutual respect and empathy, save face, and both walk out winners. The sexy part of procurement is often seen as the negotiation phase It’s the part of the project where the junior employees (who have done all the grunt work) are pulled off the project and senior management dusts off their suits and are rolled in for the “heavy lifting”. The outcome of which often goes one of two ways: either champagne is popped at the close of negotiations or, alternatively, someone mysteriously disappears to “seek opportunities elsewhere ..read more
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Costs Increasing? Doing This Will Show Your CPO You’re Still Adding Value
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by Procurious HQ
3y ago
Help turn your CPO’s frown upside down by benchmarking your performance and demonstrating your value. Learn how to here. Suppose you wanted to own the fastest car in the world. When you were shopping for that car, would you simply ask: How fast does it go? Or would you instead need to ask: How fast does it go in comparison to all other fast cars? That’s the thing about having something the fastest, or indeed, doing something well at all: it isn’t done well if it isn’t done well in comparison to something else.  The same is absolutely true when it comes to supply chain management.  A ..read more
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7 Reasons to Hire on Contract for Supply Chain!
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by Sam White
3y ago
There’s more to short-term contracts than covering someone’s maternity leave: there are very good reasons to employ contingent labour – for you and the contractor alike! Sam White from Argentus unpacks the strategies behind Contingent Staffing. Economists have done a lot of analysis on the rise of the so-called “gig economy.” More workers are using short-term contracts and other forms of employment to provide additional income to supplement or replace permanent jobs – think Uber, DoorDash, etc. But more and more companies in a variety of industries are also bringing on high-skilled ..read more
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“Your Procurement Project Has No Budget. Prove You Need One.” Too Harsh Or Just Right?
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by Procurious HQ
3y ago
Been asked to justify every single expense for your procurement project? Here’s how to implement a strategy that works to do this. Picture this (and maybe you don’t need to because it has already happened): you’re successfully managing a procurement project – one which you consider to be critical to the organisation – then the unthinkable happens: The CPO approaches you and says “Times are tough and we’re cutting costs. As of today you have no budget. Prove to me why you need one.”  It sounds extremely harsh; not to mention unrealistic! But is it? Reevaluating everything from the group u ..read more
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Why Procurement Will Soon be One of the Most Sought After Professions
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by Stephen Day
3y ago
As jobs disappear and the roles of tomorrow don’t even exist today, what makes Procurement and Supply Chain professionals so hot in demand? We’ve seen in the past year how easily the entire global job market can be disrupted. With luck, businesses and economies will recover, but there’s nothing “normal” about where they’ll be in the coming years. Thanks to industry 4.0, work as we know it is on the cusp of big change — in fact, some experts and futurists are hesitant to even predict what kinds of work will exist twenty years from now. What we do know is that it won’t involve many of the jobs ..read more
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Tired Of Small Orders Delivered In Huge Boxes? Technology Has The Answer
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by Procurious HQ
3y ago
Ever had something the size of a credit card delivered in a box that could house the whole telephone exchange? Jonnie Penn describes how AI is cutting packaging down to size, literally. You order a new phone case online, and it arrives in a box bigger than your fridge. Then you have to dig through packaging material to find the case. It’s a common experience. In fact, 73% of consumers have received packages that were twice as big as necessary. Not surprising, 40% of the average shipping box is wasted space, according to one estimate. Not only is it annoying, more than half 54% reported they w ..read more
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This One Surprising Trait Will Help Increase Procurement’s Visibility In The C-Suite
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by Procurious HQ
3y ago
Could this be the end of charts, diagrams, and facts & figures? Master this trait to increase your visibility and be remembered like nothing else! Increasing the visibility of procurement in the C-suite is something that is constantly on every CPO’s agenda. But how do you do it? Work harder? Save more? Negotiate better? The answer very well could be none of the above.  Heralded as one of most coveted up-and-coming leadership skills, the one surprising trait that may help you increase visibility in the C-suite is the ability to tell a story. Yet sharing ideas with the C-suite is a lea ..read more
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