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Who Does What, Where and Why: Aligning the Division of Labour with Your Organisation's Purpose, Strategy and Financial Goals (Part III)
re-design, organization, organisational re-design, procurement Daniel Helmig re-design, organization, organisational re-design, procurement Daniel Helmig

Who Does What, Where and Why: Aligning the Division of Labour with Your Organisation's Purpose, Strategy and Financial Goals (Part III)

What is the correct procurement setup? Central, de-central, or hybrid? If you had asked this question before 2015, many of my peers and I would have provided a very different answer then vs now. Life moved on, and today’s world requires more sophisticated, agile functional designs.

This is the second instalment of the mini-series about organisation design. We believe that if you design your organisation in line with the culture and the surrounding markets, the costly need for re-designing and organisational reshuffling can be minimised.

Enjoy!

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Procurement - on ‘steroids’ or: improving margins - for real
supply chain, procurement, transformation, margin improvement Daniel Helmig supply chain, procurement, transformation, margin improvement Daniel Helmig

Procurement - on ‘steroids’ or: improving margins - for real

The times when strategic sourcing was solely a procurement function topic, with the main focus on cost and supply base management, are long gone in most companies.
Today, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters or disruptions are happening far too often for a cost-based, multi-layered value chain.

While the issues getting more and more complex, and the speed of change is dizzying, our internal corporate coping mechanisms often stay as simple and inadequate as 20-30 years before.

So, what needs to change?

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