Supply Chain and Procurement Network

 

Strategy / Innovation / Best Practice

 

The Supply Chain and Procurement (SCP) Network is a membership network, bringing together leading organisations to identify and share best practice, generate new insights and opportunities for their organisation and make new professional and personal connections, all in a professionally facilitated programme of experience sharing.

Evolving each year for the last decade, today's network harnesses its members' formidable cross-sector experience to address the most timely and business critical issues in transformation, at the strategic and operational levels.

Network themes for 2010

  • Driving cost out and value in: supply chain and procurement as sources of business advantage
  • Sustainability and CSR in the supply chain: carbon, business design, ICT
  • Risk management (guideline released, March 2010): a best practice framework and the role of SRM
  • Practice design and management: governance, management and control of operations
  • Business engagement in the sourcing process: planning and cross functional working
  • Outsourcing, shared services and managed services: managing an external procurement process
  • Operating models for demand management
  • Globalisation of processes: management models for delivering consistency
  • Consumer driven supply chain: better customer outcomes through supply chain and procurement
  • Capability building and talent management strategies: in supply chain and procurement teams, and in the business

Member benefits

Benefits are quantitative and qualitative and include:

  • Learning from and sharing with the best: regularly accessing 'real' innovation and best practice
  • Financial return: invest wisely, access new improvement ideas, reduce cycle times and assure programme quality
  • Improving performance: Find practical new ideas based on cross-sector experience
  • Generating credible evidence for the Board: based on the experience and evidence from world leaders in change
  • Qualifying investment priorities: distinguish rhetoric vs. reality, what really works and what does not 
  • Generating new insights: innovation comes from cross-sector exchange 
  • Risk reduction: with better targeting of resources and spend
  • Building long-term professional and personal connections
  • Enriching your knowledge base and thought leadership development: from regular cross sector engagement (private, public, service provider)
  • Understanding sector and market changes: better and more reliable market intelligence
  • Benchmarking effectively: in depth comparisons of success and learning across sectors
  • Executive development: talent development through engagement in rich thematic debate

Members include

British Council, Carphone Warehouse, CIPS, ITV, Metropolitan Housing Partnership, Royal Mail, SAP, Thorntons, Value Wales, Virgin Atlantic, Whitbread

What does membership include?

  • Experience sharing groups (ESGs) 
  • Thought leadership discussions
  • Best practice development groups and guideline publication
  • Case studies and site visits
  • Member team engagement and briefings 
  • Document sharing 
  • Member only best practice knowledge store (access to five year's of network guidelines, best practice meeting insights, confidential presentations from members)

Programme Details

Supply Chain & Procurement Network Programme

Supply Chain & Procurement Network Guidelines

Supply Chain & Procurement Example Agenda

Meeting Types

Thought leadership discussion

Experience sharing groups (ESGs)

Industry insights: best practice development