Less than 1% of Procurement Professionals actually planned to be in in this profession. The rest landed by accident
Supplier Sales Personnel spend 20% of their time in training, while procurement only spends up to 2%
In your own management chain, procurement eventually reports to someone who doesn’t understand procurement.
The C - Suite says they value procurement, but they treat it like a cost center instead of as a Value Added Center of Profit
Due to antiquated training models, Procurement pros who have 20 years experience actually only have 1 year experience, 20 times
Suppliers have better tools, training, systems, and data than you do, and they are sitting on the other side of the negotiation on table.
Most Procurement Certification Programs are antiquated, memorization focused, and are still stuck chasing 1950’s at - the - table negotiation strategies
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