Introduction

In 2005 CIPSA, the Australasian branch of the UK based Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply, published a short research paper on the Top 3 issues facing the procurement profession. The issues they identified were as follows

Internal issues – i.e. those identified by procurement professionals

1.    Stakeholder buy-in. How do we go about getting true buy-in from internal ‘clients’?
2.    Performance measurement. Are our measurement efforts appropriate & adequate?

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