Strategy & Execution
Strategic procurement: how CPOs move beyond savings to growth
Savings targets are a floor, not a strategy. How chief procurement officers can add supplier innovation, resilience and revenue to the function's scorecard. The report sets out the considerations and practical implications discussed in the article.
- Format
- PDF · 15 pages
- Published
- Published Oct 2026
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What's inside
- 01Savings targets no longer explain what procurement is worth
- 02The barriers to value are organisational, not technical
- 03Leaders are measured on enterprise outcomes, and the results differ
- 04Supplier innovation is the clearest route from cost centre to growth function
- 05Resilience is a revenue-protection argument, and procurement owns the levers