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    Procurement Professional A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition
    Procurement Professional A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition
    Procurement Professional A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition
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    Procurement Professional A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition

    By Gerardus Blokdyk

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    Are there enough skilled procurement professionals within the team to handle the volume of buying?

    Does decoupling still have a big part to play in marketing procurement strategy in future?

    Does your organization have proper procurement professionals to conduct the solicitation?

    How many years of experience do you personally have as a procurement professional?

    How much should each individual procurement professional in the team be allocated to spend?

    How will you, as a procurement professional, achieve your strategic goals?

    Is the management cadre composed of experienced procurement professionals?

    What advanced training have procurement professionals received in sustainable procurement?

    What are the biggest challenges procurement professionals will face in the future?

    What is the role of your organization in training procurement professionals?

    This Procurement Professional Guide is unlike books you're used to. If you're looking for a textbook, this might not be for you. This book and its included digital components is for you who understands the importance of asking great questions. This gives you the questions to uncover the Procurement Professional challenges you're facing and generate better solutions to solve those problems.

    Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.

    Unless you're talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. That process needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

    This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Procurement Professional investments work better.

    This Procurement Professional All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person.

    INCLUDES all the tools you need to an in-depth Procurement Professional Self-Assessment. Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core levels of Procurement Professional maturity, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Procurement Professional improvements can be made.

    In using the questions you will be better able to:

    Diagnose Procurement Professional projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices.

    Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals.

    Integrate recent advances in Procurement Professional and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines.

    Using the Self-Assessment tool gives you the Procurement Professional Scorecard, enabling you to develop a clear picture of which Procurement Professional areas need attention.

    Your purchase includes access to the Procurement Professional self-assessment digital components which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool that enables you to define, show and lead your organization exactly with what's important.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher5STARCooks
    Release dateJan 4, 2021
    ISBN9781867499008
    Procurement Professional A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition

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