Decideware supports 7th CIPSA Annual Conference - Risky Business

Decideware exhibited at the very successful 7th CIPSA Annual Conference, entitled Risky Business in Melbourne last week.

Featuring 12 keynote speakers, 30 seminars, 6 pre-conference workshops and the annual Procurement Professional Awards, the conference was the biggest yet attracting - close to 1,000 procurement executives.

Globally, we see growing interest in the discipline of Strategic Supplier Relationship Management (SSRM) and we had many interesting discussions with procurement executives about software to manage strategic supplier assessment, scopes of work and rosters.

A key theme to emerge from the conference was the rapid growth of the procurement discipline and the maturing of approaches to manage strategic suppliers, as opposed to traditional SRM methods to assess the bulk of non-strategic suppliers.

There is a real understanding now that strategic suppliers need a specific assessment program and enabling tools to help procurement teams and their business unit stakeholders to measure and manage great relationships and performance. 

We congratulate the organisers on an excellent program and the PP Award winners for their efforts to raise the standard of procurement practices in Australia.

Author: VJ Ratnam (Decideware)