Purchasers should be leading change
3 April 2012
The time is right for procurement professionals to “move up a gear” and take a greater leadership role even though the world economy is in a dire state, Dr Richard Russill, director of consultancy Innovative Concepts, told the CIPS annual conference and s
Boardrooms will demand more visible returns on investment in everything from e-commerce to basic logistics, he told delegates to “A call for change”. Procurement must make its case at a time when the already rocky global economy had been severely affected by the recent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon.
“Procurement has...