Happy New Year!??

Welcome to CPO Insights #14, your monthly update on the world of Procurement, Digital Procurement and Supply Chain News, featuring insights from C-Level?executives. We hope you had a fantastic time celebrating the festivities, and we wish you a very happy 2024.

What Have You Missed? ??

In our latest cover story, we speak to Richard Sisk , Director of Procurement at Gen4 Dental Partners , who explains how he’s revolutionising procurement for the dental industry, and why doctor-led care is so important. Issue 46 also features insights from DPW , Eric Ménard , Astrocast , and 2024 procurement predictions from the new ProcureTech 100 Yearbook .

Leadership, Relationships and the Power of Technology?

The values of the City of Richmond’s Department of Procurement Services (DPS) are set out on the opening page of its first ever annual report: teamwork, integrity, innovation, customer focus and leadership. The report is the work of the department’s relatively new director, Rene Almaraz, and his staff, and highlights the team’s achievements – in fiscal year 2023 – and priorities for the future, and also the guiding principles that influence how and why decisions are made. We speak to Rene M. Almaraz , Director, Department of Procurement Services , City of Richmond, Virginia , to see how public procurement is transforming at the city.

Success Through Technology, Innovation and Community Building

Now, more than ever, procurement leaders are having to harness innovation as they seek to prosper in highly uncertain times. Successful procurement teams are fostering emerging technologies and strategically aligned operating models and processes as they strive to unlock value across their enterprises. The procurement function at the Austria-based Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI) is such an entity and is dedicated to delivering value through a future-orientated approach, at scale.?We speak to Edzard Janssen and several of his team members at Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) to see how the procurement function is enhancing value creation, mitigating risk and dealing with increasing regulatory requirements.

Tipico: A Single Source of Truth?

Kiran Menghnani , Director Tipico – part of the online iGaming and Sports Betting brand Tipico Group – stumbled into procurement by accident.

As the Malta Head-Officed enterprise Tipico Group started to experience rapid growth midway through the 2010s,?the maturity of the Group realised the tangible need for a dedicated procurement function. Then, in 2016, Gibraltar-based Kiran was asked to look into creating a future-ready procurement hub that could deliver a more strategic and agile business-facing function. We speak to Kiran Menghnani to see how he and his team have transformed procurement.

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