Procurement Musings

Working from home (WFH) is the new reality for professionals across industries. Companies should not only promote WFH for their employees during these difficult times but also make sure that the employees are enabled to work efficiently from home by providing them with required infrastructure. Procurement is also not untouched by this new normal. For procurement to work efficiently from home, organizations will need to speed up their digital transformation initiatives. Tools that will help procurement professionals to complete their task remotely without compromising on compliance parameters will emerge as champions. Tune to this latest podcast to listen to Mr. Lalit Dhamija talking candidly about the best practices to WFH.

With COVID-19 disrupting the procurement and supply chain landscape across the globe, the focus has been on how businesses are looking at business continuity plans and cost-saving measures. However, there hasn’t been much debate on how Government procurement teams across Australia and New Zealand are reacting to this pandemic. In order to get an in-depth view of how Governments are reacting to this pandemic, we caught up with Phil Chalkley- a seasoned procurement professional, with over 25 years of experience in helping both businesses and Governments transform their procurement function- to pick his brains on what he thinks Government’s should do to ride this difficult time. In an exclusive two-part series, Phil not only talks about COVID-19, but also talks about the following: Distinctions between Government and Commercial procurement The evolution of digital procurement and the need to use it more in current times Issues pertaining to Government- probity, compliance, and technology adoption Here’s presenting part-2, where the focus is on probity, compliance, and technology adoption in Government