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Awards Categories Most Improved Example of Socially Responsible Procurement This award will be given to an organisation that can demonstrate the significant contribution of its procurement or supply chain teams to the achievement of social, ethical, sustainable, environmental and/or Sponsored by:
Young Procurement Professional of the Year Open to those aged 30 or under at the time of submission, the judges will look for evidence of achievement that is significant and beyond what might normally be expected from practitioners of this age and experience. The impact upon the organisation by the successful nominee is more likely to be at an operational or functional rather than strategic level. The nominee will be expected to demonstrate potential for further growth, evidence of ongoing study or other commitment to the practice of procurement. Individuals may be nominated by their organisations, or they may selfnominate. When self-nominating, the submission must be endorsed by the nominee’s manager. Sponsored by:
Best Process Improvement Initiative Entries in this category should focus on how procurement or supply management processes have been upgraded or changed, resulting in demonstrable improvements to business outcomes. Sponsored by:
Best Supplier Partnership This category requires a joint entry by the procurement team and their supplier. The entry should primarily explain how the two organizations have worked together in partnership to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes that go beyond the normal commercial buyer-supplier relationship. Sponsored by:
Best Cross-Functional Teamwork Project Entries in this category should demonstrate how a procurement or supply management team has worked effectively with another team or business unit from the same organisation to achieve a mutual goal. Sponsored by:
Most Improved Procurement Operation Judges will be looking for evidence of success from a procurement function that has undergone a substantial change resulting in improvement. Entries could range from the establishment of an entirely new function where little or no professional procurement function has previously existed to an established procurement team that has undergone radical change. Sponsored by:
Best People Development Initiative This category covers training or development programmes that have substantially raised the understanding and/or skills of the procurement or supply management team, and/or the procurement/supply understanding or skills of the organisation and helped to deliver real improvements in performance. Sponsored by:
Best Infrastructure & Capital Works Project This category recognises the importance that leading practice in procurement has in influencing the outcomes of major capital works programs in both the public and private sectors and will be given to the best recently completed infrastructure and capital works program. Evidence of procurement’s contribution, quantitative and/or qualitative, to successful project outcomes, such as being brought in on-time and on-budget, is essential. This award is for a project that is enduring in nature and which is capitalised on the balance sheet. Sponsored by:
Most Innovative Use of Technology This is an award for innovation in the deployment of eProcurement, eSourcing or Business Intelligence solutions that have resulted in substantial improvement in procurement processes, practices and outcomes as indicated by quantitative and qualitative evidence. Innovation will be demonstrated by reference to how the nominee’s use of the technology differs from practice of other organisations in the same business sector or jurisdiction or more broadly. Sponsored by:
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