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“Many clients are under immense pressure from inflation and wage pressure, whilst still needing to invest in growth capability, and to meet regulatory obligations and also harden cyber security…” ArcBlue’s Director for Strategic Initiatives, Chris Hodgson, shares the top three challenges facing his clients in this economic climate and how businesses are addressing the current cost pressures.
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Download our 2024 Asia CPO Insights Report that highlights the maturity of procurement functions across Asia and the opportunities to enhance value delivered through procurement for businesses.
Download our key strategies that businesses and government have used to build social impact into their supply chains.
Access our On Demand Webinar on how you can best prepare for the introduction of the NACC and offering practical advice.
This checklist is designed to help you tackle the selection and implementation process for a digital procurement ecosystem.
Download this checklist of questions that are designed to give you a snapshot of your company’s Sustainability Maturity.
Access our On Demand Webinar exploring the complex topic of Modern Slavery in supply chains, offering practical advice.
Access our On Demand Webinar exploring the challenges of negotiation in the current market and offering practical advice.
Download this checklist of best practice measures to track your process and to highlight gaps in your Infrastructure Procurement journey.
Download the Spend Optimisation Playbook as a guide to optimise your spend, ensuring that procurement is delivering increased value for money.
Download this checklist of best practice measures to track your organisational progress and highlight gaps in your Social & Sustainable procurement practices.
How do you measure the performance of your procurement function? Download our list of 50 Procurement Key Performance Indicators to get the best out of your procurement function.
Top 10: Tips for building procurement capability
Procurement leaders are increasingly asked to deliver more. Executive Manager Jacqui Priestly explains how you can develop your team's capability drive better procurement performance and achieve more.
Enabling positive outcomes in council
Managing Consultant Fiona Nissen explains why having a robust procurement strategy that is aligned to your business strategy is key in enabling your council to deliver high quality community services.
Supporting public sector procurement
Executive Regional Manager Justin Sara explores the common key challenges faced by public sector procurement, and how ArcBlue works to address their needs.
De-Risking your Supply Chain
Recent occurrences such as geopolitical tensions, rising labour costs, trade disputes, COVID, increased import costs and shortages have highlighted the risks with relying too heavily on a sole supplier. ArcBlue's Keith Gauntlett, explores the challenges that come with the various supply chain de-risking strategies.
Social Procurement & Place-based programs
"If we don't do the hard work now... then we will not deliver the kind of legacy that we're looking for." ArcBlue's Managing Director, Chris Newman, discusses the concept of Social Procurement, who it benefits and why a place-based approach is crucial to ensuring investment in local communities reaches the people who need it most.
How we work with New Zealand Public Sector
At ArcBlue, we understand the unique challenges faced by NZ Public Sector, such as public scrutiny, regulatory requirements, and ensuring alignment to the Government Procurement Rules. ArcBlue's Director for New Zealand, Fiona Nissen, explains how ArcBlue partners with New Zealand Public Sector organisations who are looking to deliver more value through procurement.
The Cost of Time
Do you know what the cost of running out of time is for your procurement projects? Justin Sara & Fiona Nissen explain the cost of time in this article, and offer tips to avoiding the last minute procurement crunch.
How can procurement support Australia’s growing infrastructure needs?
In this article we explore 3 key ways to rethink procurement in order to help deliver Australia’s growing infrastructure needs.
Successful Procurement Solution Implementation
Many organisations struggle when it comes to initiating and implementing IT change. Read how you can develop an effective change strategy when implementing procurement tech solutions.
How to get the most impact from your procurement training
We're often asked by organizations how they can get the most impact our of their procurement training sessions. ArcBlue's Director for Learning & Development sat down for a chat to share her tips on getting the most out of training, and the training options offered at ArcBlue.
Top 10: Tips for Successful Procurement Digitalisation
Organisations are embarking on procurement digitalisation journeys to take processes and data online, providing their stakeholders with interactive tools and reports to support buying activities.
The value of listening to your suppliers: Maximising supply chain resilience and managing risk
Effective SRM can enhance supply chain resilience and improve the organisation’s ability to respond to unexpected events. Our whitepaper explores how conducting a “voice of the suppliers” (VOS) online survey is a key step to set up or improve on an organisation’s SRM programme.
