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What was your route to becoming a Procurement professional?
Did you learn 'on the job'?
Did you research CIPS and begin your CIPS degree?
Did you do a combination of both?
What other ways are there to become a Procurement professional?

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Can you help me with my research on B2B market segmentation? I am currently doing my Master Thesis and would be enormously thankful if you could take some time to fill in my survey.
Link to survey: https://www.soscisurvey.de/b2bsegmenting/
Thank you so much for your collaboration!!

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Recent supply chain college grad here struggling to find work. What are some continuing education things I can learn or things to keep an eye on in our field that will set me apart in an interview.

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What KPIs do you use to monitor your consulting spend?

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I am trying to understand and gather real life instances of procurement is moving from a transactional, cost savings-focused function, to a real value adding strategic partner to the business.

We in procurement talk about this transition a lot and I've spoken to some CPOs where this is actually happening. But my gut feeling is that there's a lot more talk than action.

I know of one company that has ditched cost savings completely as an annual target for its CMs preferring instead to measure their value added. So my question is how widespread is this thinking? Are cost savings still themain measurement of procurement value?

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Is CIPS keeping up with our Procurement professionals demands in the ever changing landscape?

If you are currently studying CIPS - is the content up to date?
If you already have your CIPS qualification and now work in the profession - what could be added to the qualification which you didn't have before?

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Can you help me with my research on B2B market segmentation? I am currently doing my Master Thesis and would be enormously thankful if you could take some time to fill in my survey.
Link to survey: https://www.soscisurvey.de/b2bsegmenting/
Thank you so much for your collaboration!!

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What was your route to becoming a Procurement professional?
Did you learn 'on the job'?
Did you research CIPS and begin your CIPS degree?
Did you do a combination of both?
What other ways are there to become a Procurement professional?

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Nov 4, 2020
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Hey, you, #Purchasing / #Supply / #supplychain / # Logistics professional, have you signed up for CONACOMP 2020 - National Congress on Purchasing of #SupriMentes? Do not miss our exclusive event, after the success of the 1st event with 12 recognized professionals from all over the country, it will now be the #turn of the #women, this will be the #CONACOMP #WOMAN that will address the #defans, # trends and #novities for the purchasing and supplies area. The event is # 100% #online, 100% #free and is part of our #MOVIMENTO #HORA DA #VIRADA_ #COMPRAS, project to promote #recognition and # update of the #class, with the proposal of # valorization of #professionals that are fundamental for all companies. Shall we raise this flag together? ? We will have a #Talk with # 12 expert women, #executives that will disseminate #knowledge, #expertise and # incredible experiences and we at @suprimentes will #bancan #sua # participation in the event, in order to give access to information and knowledge to everyone, We want to # level the #learned infinitely. ? Don't miss it! It will be 4 days full of content, discussions and many exchanges of ideas. ? 24, 25, 26 and 27 November 2020 ? From 6 pm to 10 pm ? Registration via the website: https://lnkd.in/dT4X-Er #strategicsourcing #buyer #procurement

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How can Procurement improve ourselves in term of new technologies? What new technologies have you been learning ?

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Oct 23, 2020
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How would you create a category development strategy?

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Anyone could me to list the five stages in category management?

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Oct 21, 2020
Supply chain
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What are the drivers of autonomous connectivity vehicles you can think of? What are the current supply chain status of autonomous connectivity vehicles in your country ?

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What was your route to becoming a Procurement professional?
Did you learn 'on the job'?
Did you research CIPS and begin your CIPS degree?
Did you do a combination of both?
What other ways are there to become a Procurement professional?

Answered by 5 members

Answer this question

Aug 9, 2020
Esourcing

What are the best tools for esourcing

Answered by 4 members

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Can you help me with my research on B2B market segmentation? I am currently doing my Master Thesis and would be enormously thankful if you could take some time to fill in my survey.
Link to survey: https://www.soscisurvey.de/b2bsegmenting/
Thank you so much for your collaboration!!

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Recent supply chain college grad here struggling to find work. What are some continuing education things I can learn or things to keep an eye on in our field that will set me apart in an interview.

Answered by 4 members

Answer this question

What KPIs do you use to monitor your consulting spend?

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Answer this question

I am trying to understand and gather real life instances of procurement is moving from a transactional, cost savings-focused function, to a real value adding strategic partner to the business.

We in procurement talk about this transition a lot and I've spoken to some CPOs where this is actually happening. But my gut feeling is that there's a lot more talk than action.

I know of one company that has ditched cost savings completely as an annual target for its CMs preferring instead to measure their value added. So my question is how widespread is this thinking? Are cost savings still themain measurement of procurement value?

Answered by 2 members

Answer this question

Is CIPS keeping up with our Procurement professionals demands in the ever changing landscape?

If you are currently studying CIPS - is the content up to date?
If you already have your CIPS qualification and now work in the profession - what could be added to the qualification which you didn't have before?

Answered by 3 members

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Can you help me with my research on B2B market segmentation? I am currently doing my Master Thesis and would be enormously thankful if you could take some time to fill in my survey.
Link to survey: https://www.soscisurvey.de/b2bsegmenting/
Thank you so much for your collaboration!!

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What was your route to becoming a Procurement professional?
Did you learn 'on the job'?
Did you research CIPS and begin your CIPS degree?
Did you do a combination of both?
What other ways are there to become a Procurement professional?

Answered by 5 members

Answer this question

Nov 4, 2020
Difference

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snsnsnsn
wnsnsnsn
snenenenenenwww.infosys.com

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Hey, you, #Purchasing / #Supply / #supplychain / # Logistics professional, have you signed up for CONACOMP 2020 - National Congress on Purchasing of #SupriMentes? Do not miss our exclusive event, after the success of the 1st event with 12 recognized professionals from all over the country, it will now be the #turn of the #women, this will be the #CONACOMP #WOMAN that will address the #defans, # trends and #novities for the purchasing and supplies area. The event is # 100% #online, 100% #free and is part of our #MOVIMENTO #HORA DA #VIRADA_ #COMPRAS, project to promote #recognition and # update of the #class, with the proposal of # valorization of #professionals that are fundamental for all companies. Shall we raise this flag together? ? We will have a #Talk with # 12 expert women, #executives that will disseminate #knowledge, #expertise and # incredible experiences and we at @suprimentes will #bancan #sua # participation in the event, in order to give access to information and knowledge to everyone, We want to # level the #learned infinitely. ? Don't miss it! It will be 4 days full of content, discussions and many exchanges of ideas. ? 24, 25, 26 and 27 November 2020 ? From 6 pm to 10 pm ? Registration via the website: https://lnkd.in/dT4X-Er #strategicsourcing #buyer #procurement

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How can Procurement improve ourselves in term of new technologies? What new technologies have you been learning ?

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Oct 23, 2020
Airlines
Automobiles

How would you create a category development strategy?

Be the first to answer.

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Anyone could me to list the five stages in category management?

Be the first to answer.

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Oct 21, 2020
Supply chain
Management

What are the drivers of autonomous connectivity vehicles you can think of? What are the current supply chain status of autonomous connectivity vehicles in your country ?

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Can you help me with my research on B2B market segmentation? I am currently doing my Master Thesis and would be enormously thankful if you could take some time to fill in my survey. Link to survey: https://www.soscisurvey.de/b2bsegmenting/Thank you so much for your collaboration!!

Can you help me with my research on B2B market segmentation? I am currently doing my Master Thesis and would be enormously thankful if you could take some time to fill in my survey. Link to survey: https://www.soscisurvey.de/b2bsegmenting/Thank you so much for your collaboration!!

Can you help me with my research on B2B market segmentation? I am currently doing my Master Thesis and would be enormously thankful if you could take some time to fill in my survey. Link to survey: https://www.soscisurvey.de/b2bsegmenting/Thank you so much for your collaboration!!

Can you help me with my research on B2B market segmentation? I am currently doing my Master Thesis and would be enormously thankful if you could take some time to fill in my survey. Link to survey: https://www.soscisurvey.de/b2bsegmenting/Thank you so much for your collaboration!!

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Can you help me with my research on B2B market segmentation? I am currently doing my Master Thesis and would be enormously thankful if you could take some time to fill in my survey.
Link to survey: https://www.soscisurvey.de/b2bsegmenting/
Thank you so much for your collaboration!!

Can you help me with my research on B2B market segmentation? I am currently doing my Master Thesis and would be enormously thankful if you could take some time to fill in my survey.
Link to survey: https://www.soscisurvey.de/b2bsegmenting/
Thank you so much for your collaboration!!

Can you help me with my research on B2B market segmentation? I am currently doing my Master Thesis and would be enormously thankful if you could take some time to fill in my survey.
Link to survey: https://www.soscisurvey.de/b2bsegmenting/
Thank you so much for your collaboration!!

Can you help me with my research on B2B market segmentation? I am currently doing my Master Thesis and would be enormously thankful if you could take some time to fill in my survey.
Link to survey: https://www.soscisurvey.de/b2bsegmenting/
Thank you so much for your collaboration!!