Procurement 2020

VISION 2020

Ideas for Procurement in 2020 by IndustryLeading Procurement Executives

Introduction

Welcome to the Vision 2020 Project!

Starting in late 2010, Ariba joined

forces with leading procurement

practitioners and influencers to begin a

dialogue with two intermingled sets of

procurement executives:

•  he first represents a visionary and

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highly seasoned set of procurement

executives — the people who first

rolled up their sleeves in the early

1990s and conducted the arduous

work of leading procurement from

tactical paper pushing into things like

spend management, strategic sourcing,

supplier collaboration, electronic

commerce, sourcing and procurement

process automation.

•  he second group represents today’s

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vanguard — Chief Procurement

Officers in charge of high-performing

spend management organizations

— who will lead procurement to

new and innovative kinds of value

contribution over the coming decade

and beyond.

The objective is to initiate a dialogue on

the future of procurement and to create

a roadmap for how to get there.

The pages of this eBook contain ideas

about the future that have emerged

from the early rounds of discussion.

Consider the contents of these pages to

be one part prediction, one part hopeful

thinking. And while there is surprisingly

strong consensus among project

participants around the essential ideas

presented here, not everyone agrees it

all can or will be accomplished — by

every organization — in just 10 years’

time. Nor does everyone claim to have

all the answers for how they will get to

each of the aspects presented herein.

Of note is that some of the ideas

presented in these pages have been

kicking around for quite some years,

although the conditions under which

they might flourish have yet to

materialize in more than a handful of

enterprises. The hope is that — with all

that has been accomplished in the past

decade — the time for these ideas may

finally be coming....