Google sometimes digs up the strangest things when you ask for Procurement News. One thing it recently dug up was the Balfour Beatty “Procurement Strategy” page, which wasn’t so much a strategy, but a set of principles that every organization should subscribe to. (Regardless of what industry they are in.)
So, if you’re wondering what principles you should adopt before you set your Procurement organization strategy, you can start with these seven principles:
- Become the customer of choice
- Ensure that we have the right, skilled people for the job, a strong talent pipeline and that we provide an environment where they excel
- Put in place processes that work, are compliant and transparent, making the best use of technology to deliver for our business and for our supply chain partners
- Mitigate and manage risk through early and closer integration with our supply chain partners
- Work together to identify market risks and forecasts
- Keep safety and wellbeing at the forefront of all that we do
- Prompt Payment for Suppliers
The great thing is they will lead to a great strategy as:
- it covers talent, technology, and process transformation
- it places importance on the supplier, the relationship, and the supplier sustainability
- it covers CSR (corporate social responsibility)
- it covers risk
In fact, the only principle that is missing is Sustainability, so if you add this eight principle
- Embrace sustainability in all that we do
We’re pretty sure that if you were to start here, you won’t go too far astray in the creation of your Procurement Strategy.