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Procurement Transparency: A challenge or an opportunity?

Across a wide variety of sectors, buyers of outsourcing are starting to expect more transparency each and every time they procure services. This is partially due to the rise of online price comparison sites, frequently put to use by consumers making online purchases. Those responsible for procurement also use these sites, and they’re beginning to wonder why there’s no equivalent for real time pricing, ranking and reviews in their B2B procurement processes. Many service providers would love to be entirely transparent in their procurement dealings. However, the process is currently extremely time consuming and frequently prone to human error. Now technology is on the verge of permanently changing things for the better. Systems can automatically collect crucial procurement information on the supplier’s behalf, arming buyers with the most up-to-date supplier information concerning quality and pricing every time services are procured. Opportune – the cloud-based benchmarking and savings engine – is leading the way with this kind of technology.

Jim Hemmington, Head of Procurement, Interview

Read this exclusive presentation by Jim Hemmington, Head of Procurement at the BBC as he gives a case study presentation & speech on re-structuring 67% of outsourced services at the world's largest broadcaster.

Levi Strauss - Global-led Procurement Strategy

Read an exclusive interview with Celeste Smith, Director of Global Indirect Procurement at Levi Strauss & Co Find out: How indirect procurement is structured at Levi’s? What are the strengths and weaknesses of having a small team? What is Levi's biggest procurement challenge?Plus lots more...

What makes a successful MTS partnership?

Download our interview with Christian Linhart on successful MTS partnerships.

The Evolving Role of Procurement

We got together and spoke to some of the leading experts in procurement at ProcureCon Indirect 2014 to ask them how they saw the role of procurement evolving in the next two to three years.