Author: Victoria Vaughan

Part 2: Essential Preparation In the first part of this report on the future of the purchasing function, we examined the changes that buyers can expect by 2030. This second part discusses the need to prepare...

This report analyses the impact of digital transformation on the procurement profession and tries to identify the main ways in which the profession can reinvent itself. In the first part, we discuss the digitalisation of purchasing,...

Part 1: The Digitalisation of Purchasing After the mechanical, electrical and electronic revolutions, we are at the dawn of the 4th industrial revolution. New technologies or cyber-systems are at the heart of this unavoidable transformation (Big...

  In the same way as the spread of robotics, artificial intelligence, and the conversational economy, sustainable development is a key issue for companies in the 21st century. The consequences of mass industrialisation and consumerism in...