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Procurement Professional is the official publication of CIPS Australasia
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A new way to demonstrate best practice View previous winning submissions
Following the success of our Procurement Professional Awards programme over the last three years, we are delighted to be launching the Procurement Professional Awards for 2010. These awards have now become established, prestigious and popular, with more entries last year compared to the year before, despite the GFC and its drive of humility.
This awards programme highlights the varied contribution that our profession is making to organisations throughout the private and public sectors. This recognition is not only beneficial to the confidence and career progression of individuals working in the profession, but also for their organisations and stakeholders. It will highlight the direct and wide ranging benefits that accrue to them from their investment in professional procurement. This awards programme is a new, modern way to demonstrate best practice for everyone’s benefit.
Procurement may be the fastest growing profession in business, but its individual practitioners rarely promote their hard-earned achievements or accept due recognition. It is still not really part of our procurement ‘culture.’ These 4th Annual CIPS Australia Procurement Professional Awards are just a step in the right direction towards correcting this imbalance.
The judging criteria for the awards will recognise the broad range of skill areas in which procurement professionals excel - including project management, negotiation, supplier management, cost reduction, process improvement, individual initiative, teamwork and growth. In a word it will recognise contribution.
With the adoption of a new category, Most Innovative and Effective Use of Technology, the award categories now recognise all three levers that improve procurement capability – people development, process improvement and the deployment of technology. In addition, following the initiative announced at the last PP Awards dinner, we will again be inviting the Young Procurement Professional of the Year to join the CIPSA Steering Group. This is a great way to hear the future voice of the profession.
Please do not be shy. Enter the awards by 6th August 2010, for the benefit of your stakeholders and your organisation – not just yourself. Show us a new way to demonstrate best practice.
Both the CIPS CEO David Noble and I look forward to seeing you at the PP Awards dinner on the evening of 13th October at Crown in Melbourne, and enjoying the successes that will doubtless be richly deserved.
Jonathan Dutton FCIPS
Managing Director
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