Take a Strategic, Balanced Approach to Engaging Procurement Staff

Published On:
January 16, 2025
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APQC
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Senior leaders are looking to procurement teams as business partners in creating a more agile, flexible supply chain that can manage risk and volatility. To emphasize the importance of attaining future-ready skills for their procurement staff, leading organizations carefully tie individual performance reviews and incentives to procurement and sourcing performance. Doing so helps to reinforce a business partner mindset that is continually oriented toward driving value for the organization. 

From APQC’s Sourcing and Procurement: 2024 Blueprint for Success, this article details the importance of taking a strategic, balanced approach to engaging procurement staff. These findings are supported by data from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking research in procurement and examples from successful organizations.