From AI to Strategic Sourcing, from Burnout to the Circular Economy -

The February issue of procurement magazine is focused on the avalanche of adverse impacts on procurement, and the master skiers manoeuvring the barrage.

What’s happening in procurement is in an odd sense, similar to life itself. When adversity strikes, those who throw up their hands in despair, will inevitably succumb to its incursions.

But the planner; the strategiser; those with the will to overcome can, and have - not only survived the hardshipsbut have invariably transmuted them into opportunities for growth and exemplary success.

From solving staff burnout to the exponentiality of Artificial Intelligence; from leveraging strategic sourcing to streamline processes through dire straits; from establishing circular economies and taking a leaf out of the books of the most sustainable companies - procurement is the newly appointed vanguard.

And Procurement Magazine shares their stories…