Procurious Takes Step with Alliances

By Nikita Saharia Chaturvedi

Going forward it is quite imperative to continuously ripen one’s skills and inflate one’s worldwide professional network. Thus it is essential to connect and collaborate with other procurement professionals and take on a more innovative professional outlook.

Procurious, an online business community for procurement and supply chain professionals offering career advancement, professional development and networking, has reached a milestone in its membership and created a new alliance which is participating in its annual Big Ideas Summit this spring.

First, more than 11,500 procurement and supply chain professionals worldwide are now Procurious members. The community launched in November, 2014.

“Our membership is growing very strongly,” Tania Seary, Founding Chairman, tells My Purchasing Center in a podcast interview. “We are fulfilling our mission, which is to build a global network that will help empower the procurement community.”

Seary points out that CPOs now have a seat near the CEO in the board room and skills valued by management. “We moved beyond costs into branding and risk management,” she says. “With supply chain disruptions, we see it’s important to be connected to news on what’s impacting the supply chain so we can respond quickly.”

As part of the mission of Procurious, Seary hopes members will begin “to create muscle by working together to solve problems.” She says procurement “can work with people in the community to perhaps find alternative suppliers to combat risk…which can impact share price.”

In the podcast, Seary describes the new alliance with the Institute for Supply Management and The Hackett Group. Here are details:

• The Institute for Supply Management has become a Procurious Foundation Partner. This increases Procurious members’ access to ISM research, events and educational offerings, from certification programs to the ISM Mastery Model. ISM members will also benefit from educational resources and networking opportunities on Procurious.

• ISM and The Hackett Group, a leading strategic consultancy and enterprise benchmarking firm, will sponsor Procurious’ annual Big Ideas Summit, a digital forum on procurement. The event takes place in London on April 21 and be shared online to Procurious’ full membership and social media followers. Tom Derry, CEO of ISM, and Chris Sawchuk, Principal and Global Procurement Advisory Practice Leader, The Hackett Group, will be among the speakers.

“We are delighted they are working with us,” she says. “The relationship, which helps increase the level of competence of the whole community, sends a strong message to procurement professionals dedicated to developing the next generation of procurement leaders.”

Perhaps this is the right time to jump into the field of procurement and moreover contribute efficiently in maintaining cost leadership while preventing disruptions in supply chain thereby resulting in innovation and growth.

To hear more from Tania Seary on Procurious, the alliance with ISM and The Hackett Group, the Big Ideas Summit and what she sees as the four big issues facing procurement, listen to the My Purchasing Center podcast, Procurious Partners with ISM and The Hackett Group.

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