50 Great Procurement Leadership Articles which form Uber Procurement - 50:50 vision Ideas. Intelligence. Impact. Procurement leaders are in search of them all and over the last couple of years there has been an incredible amount of deep research and original thinking written in substantive reports and white papers, by some creative individuals and companies. Uber procurement - 50:50 vision has taken inspiration from over 50 reports from 50 individuals from 50 companies that have created IP, insight and intelligence of substance in the procurement world. This aggregation of thoughts and opinion provides us with a view of where procurement has come from, and importantly where we are going, identifying some uber procurement trends.

1. UBER PROCUREMENT 50:50 VISION
I N S P I R AT I O N A L A U T H O R S
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2. Ideas. Intelligence. Impact.
Procurement leaders are in search of inspiration and over the last
couple of years there has been an incredible amount of deep
research and original thinking written in substantive reports and
white papers, by some creative individuals and companies.
Uber procurement - 50:50 vision has taken inspiration from over
50 reports from 50 individuals from 50 companies that have
created IP, insight and intelligence of substance in the
procurement world.
Here’s the list...enjoy...
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3. Ideas. Intelligence. Impact.
Title
2013 Procurement Key Issues:
Going Deeper and Broader to
Deliver Borderless Procurement
Services
A New Procurement Model For
The New Normal: A Business
Executive’s Guide
An Introduction to Procurement
Risk Management
Beyond Procurement: Options
For Procurement To Drive
Company Wide Productivity
Building Superior Capabilities for
Strategic Sourcing
Building Resilience in Supply
Chains
CAPS Research Supplier Quality
Control Programs & Measures
Category Management 2013
Benchmarking
Changing Roles of the
Procurement Leader: The
Analytical CPO
Charting the Course: Why
Procurement Must Transform
Itself By 2020
Company
Hackett
Author
Michel Janssen, Pierre
Mitchell and Lynne
Schneider
Procurian /
Hackett
Pierre Mitchelle,
Christopher Sawchuk
Beroe
The Beyond Group Sammy Rashed;
Matthias Kaesser
McKinsey
Steffen Fuchs, Gillian
Pais, and Jeff Shulman
WEF
CAPS
Future Purchasing
Zycus
Peter Smith / Zycus
Deloitte
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4. Ideas. Intelligence. Impact.
Title
Chief Procurement Officer Study:
Improving competitive
advantage through procurement
excellence
Co-Managing Supplier Risk:
Lowering Risks and Cost-ofManaging Simultaneously
Collaboration across the
Extended Value Chain - Executive
Summary
Companies Think Procurement
Costs Are Outside Their
Control—They Are Not
Corporate Spending &
Procurement Trends 2013
Corporate Visualisation
CPO Strategy 2012
Company
IBM
Author
Steve Peterson, Lori
Weber, David Rosselli
Chain Link
Bill McBeath
CAPS / ISM
Bain
Sudarshan Sampathkumar,
Greg Gerstenhaber and
Sumit Nadgir
Xchanging
Proxima
Procurement
Leaders
Creating Shareholder Value from Direct Works
Supplier Relationships
Current European Trends and
EIPM
Issues in Supply Risk
Management (SRiM) Practise
Designing a Procurement
Zycus
Transformation for Best-in-Class
Performance
Henrik R. Rasmussen &
Hervé Legenvre
Ardent Partners / Zycus
© 2013 State of Flux Ltd
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5. Ideas. Intelligence. Impact.
Title
Federal Reserve Board
Vendor Management
Discovery Review
Flextronics Investor Day 2013
- Tom Linton
Follow the Procurement
Leaders: Seven Ways to
Lasting Results
Game of Thrones: How a
Strong CFO-CPO Alliance Can
Command Top Performance
Game-Changing Trends In
Supply Chains
Company
Alsbridge
Author
Flextronix
Tom Linton
ATK
John Blascovich, Alejandro
Ferrer, Bill Markham
Ardent
Partners /
Basware
SCM Faculty
at The
University of
Tennessee
Getting the Most Out of SRM Vantage
Partners
High Impact Procurement
KPMG
Operating Models: A Survey
of Global CPOs
Magic Quadrant for Strategic Gartner
Sourcing Application Suites
Next Generation Supply
PWC
Chains
Perspectives on Leading
Deloitte
Procurement Practices
Andrew Bartolini
Jonathan Hughes and
Jessica Wadd
Deborah R Wilson, Magnus
Bergfors, Richard Adams
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6. Ideas. Intelligence. Impact.
Title
Perspectives on Leading
Procurement Practices
Procurement Leading
Practice
Pulse of Procurement
Europe 2013
Seven Things That Will
Impact Costs In 2013 And
How To Respond
Spend Matters
Company
Deloitte
Strategic Sourcing and
Procurement Outlook 2013
Strategic Sourcing: The
Future is Now
Strategies for World-Class
Procurement
Supplier Management Market Insight
Supply Chain Risk: A Study
of Procurement in the UK
The CPO’s Futures Are
Based On Technology That
Will Leverage Time-toDecision
Author
GEP
Accenture
Kris Timmermans
Zycus
Zycus
Procurian
Spend Matters
Peter Smith, Jason
Busch
Aberdeen
Louis Berard
My Purchasing
Centre
360 Supplier View
Pierre Mitchelle
Declan Kearney
Achilles
Aberdeen
Louis Berard
© 2013 State of Flux Ltd
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7. Ideas. Intelligence. Impact.
Title
The Forrester Wave: SVM
Toolset
The Future of
Procurement Technology
The New Procurement
The Power of
Procurement
The Problem With
Procurement
The Ripple Effect How
Manufacturing And Retail
Executives View The
Growing Challenge of
Supply Chain Risk
The State of Strategic
Sourcing 2013
The Sustainable
Organisation: The Chief
Procurement Officer’s
Perspective
Value of Sustainable:
Procurement Practices
Voice of the Supplier A
Step Closer to Mutual
Benefit
Company
Forrester
Author
GEP
Procurian
KPMG
PWC / HBR
Remko Van Hoek
Deloitte
Kelly Marchese; Siva
Paramasivam
Ardent Partners /
Bravo Solutions
Accenture
Andrew Bartolini
Ecovadis
Ecovadis, PWC,
Insead
State Of Flux
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