LAP Alliance Whitepaper
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The Future of Procurement From Function to Capability
Contributers & Quotes about
A big thank you goes to the reviewers, contributors and supporters of the LAP Alliance:
“Scaling Agile Cross-Companies is the Next Big Thing”
Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum and father of Agile Movement
Evan Leybourn, Serving the next-generation of companies to thrive with uncertainty. Founder of the Business Agility Institute.
“A great overview on the future of procurement from a pure business function and silo to a strategic capability.”
Andy Cooper, Business Agility | Leadership & Management | Innovation and Market Development, SoftEd
“Business agility requires the whole company to be innovative. Time for procurement to get into the game. Make Effect driven innovation and playful collaboration with your partner ecosystem the new norm.”
Mattias Skarin, Lean & Kanban Coach Author "Real world Kanban" & co-author "Kanban and Scrum, making the most of both" agilakontrakt.se
The contents have been presented the first time at the biggest Procurement Conference in Australia 13.10.22
Tim Cummins, President at World Commerce & Contracting; Professor, Leeds University School of Law; Chair, International Commercial & Contract Management
Dan Murphy, Agile Executive Consultant focused on Strategic Execution at DJM Systems
“This is another good challenge to our thinking on our setup and mindsets in Procurement. It’s exciting to be on the journey and see so much opportunity ahead”
Colm Diamond, Productivity & Organisational Change Lead, Global Procurement at Roche
“Read it, so we can discuss our next steps in our Procurement agile maturity journey”
Jaap-Jan De Bokx , Senior Supply Chain Commercial Manager at Shell
Executive Summary
After years of focusing on improvement of procurement via e.g. digitalization & automization but not questioning the current ways of working will this white paper will provide insights about the future of procurement - beyond just a function. Get inspired by 8 success stories in various maturity stages how you could develop your ways-of-working and drive your own journey.
The top 3 take-aways from this white paper are:
Success stories show that with Agile ways of working, all current important trends in Procurement like e.g. Digitalization / Automatization, Sustainability / Circular Economy, Supply Chain Disruption / Risk Management, Inclusion / Diversity, etc. could be much more easily incorporated than they are today. Even better than that better outcomes could be achieved faster on a much more sustainable work pace, which increases obviously also employee and customer satisfaction.
Mirko Kleiner (President Lean-Agile Procurement Alliance) has designed and published this study.
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