Outsourcing Procurement
28th July 2010
The Dockside Rooms,
Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Harbour
Sydney
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Overview
We frequently hear that procurement departments and the procurement professionals that inhabit them are struggling to find the capacity to fulfil the demands increasingly placed on them. So how do you build procurement capacity and capability quickly?
One solution is to outsource non-strategic supply lines or even to outsource parts of the procurement function.
As “The Buyer”, the sometimes controversial blogger at PPonline.com.au, wrote in a recent entry entitled “When, why and how to outsource procurement”
“As a profession, we would be shocking hypocrites not to consider outsourcing ourselves; outsourcing our own efforts – in the right circumstances, of course.”
The Buyer went on to make the Business Case for outsourcing:
1. Freeing up a stretched in-house procurement team to work more on strategic supply lines
2. Aggregation and better deals on low-volume needs – including one-time step changes in the cost base of targeted categories
3. Improved P2P processes and sharing other’s investment in technology
But outsourcing procurement doesn’t always have to be the big-bang approach: There are many forms of outsourcing to consider, each with pros and cons of their own.
Outsourcing Procurement, a CIPSA Conferences Special Interest Forum on 28th July in Sydney, will examine the business case for outsourcing, explore the different outsourcing models available, consider suitable categories to outsource, and provide practical advice on how to manage and maximise the return on outsourcing projects.
Featuring presentations from an exceptional line-up of leading consultants, suppliers and most importantly procurement practitioners, Outsourcing Procurement will provide delegates with a unique opportunity to address the question posed by The Buyer of “When, why and how to outsource procurement”, and how outsourcing can provide the opportunity to build capability and capacity quickly.
About the CIPSA Special Interest Forums
As most procurement professionals in the region will be aware, CIPSA Conferences have been producing a highly successful series of Strategic Procurement Forums for the last five years, including the CIPSA Annual Conference, The Category Management Forum, The Public Sector Procurement Forum and various regional Strategic Procurement Forums. These conferences have largely focussed on a broad range of key issues for the profession, as identified by the CIPSA Executive and the Steering Group.
However, given the broad nature of these programmes, there has not, until now, been the opportunity to examine specific issues in any great detail. This is where the Special Interest Forums come in. By concentrating the programme on a specific issue, the Special Interest Forums will provide a depth of content previously unavailable, allowing procurement professionals to get a much more complete understanding of what are often quite complex subjects.
I trust you find the programme of interest and look forward to seeing you at a CIPSA Special Interest Forum or Strategic Procurement Forum in the near future,
Jonathan Dutton FCIPS
Managing Director
CIPS Australia & New Zealand
Managing Director
CIPS Australia & New Zealand
