Procurement Consistency

One thing that seems to be lacking across the Procurement industry is consistency

I have worked as a Procurement consultant since the late 1900’s and I have had the pleasure of working for over thirty different companies in nearly all sectors. I have worked as a category manager for just about every category you can think of and some that you probably cannot; I have been head of Procurement a few times and I have also transformed or set up many Procurement functions. I have worked for large organisations and I have worked for small organisations. The thing I find most sticking about each company is the differences between their Procurement functions and the fact that their processes are different. It’s hard to think of any elements being the same in any of the companies.

There seems to be a push from the UK government to be more ‘Global’ in its Procurement outlook since the break from the European Union and the OJEU processes. There is currently a Green Paper on the subject of what the Procurement process, specifically the Supplier Selection process, should be within the public sector. The current thoughts are that the processes should be simplified and…