Author Archives for Proxima
The future of Financial Services
Observations from Richard Evans and Kent Mahoney who lead Proxima’s financial services practices in the UK and US respectively. What... View Article
Proxima’s Procurement Summer Reading List
Over the next few weeks, a lot of us will be planning some Summer downtime. Whether that’s at home or... View Article
Supply chain & logistics webinar
Building a modern playbook for supply chain strategy and logistics stardom At our recent webinar, held with Supply Chain Strategy... View Article
Supply chain overhaul for retail
The pandemic has presented an unexpected opportunity for organisation to redesign their retail supply chain in response to the shift... View Article
What makes a great procurement consultancy?
What is procurement? According to the Cambridge Dictionary, procurement is ‘the process by which an organization buys the products or... View Article
Five Qualities That Make a Professional Procurement Consultant
Professional procurement consultants know all about what it takes to understand a business and their needs. This includes using insight... View Article
Tariffs and Procurement: A perfect match?
According to recent Procurement Leaders research, 40% of category managers are anticipating risk associated with tariffs. As expected, then, the... View Article
GDPR and Procurement: How will this affect your suppliers?
Is your procurement team prepared for the new data rules? With new GDPR and data protections laws on the horizon,... View Article
The public sector and value
For decades, the UK’s public sector procurement policy has been governed by EU directives which set out to guarantee fairness and... View Article
NEED FOR SPEED 2: Managing Speed in the real world
In my last blog, I discussed the element of speed, a competency not typically associated with procurement, yet one that... View Article
The need for speed
When Top Gun’s Maverick and Goose professed their “need for speed!”, it’s probably fair to say they weren’t expecting it to... View Article
Is outsourcing really dead?
As outsourcing practices change and automation emerges, the composition of the workforce may soon be unrecognizable For a number of... View Article