2023 Results - CIPS Excellence in Procurement Awards

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Best Approach To Risk Mitigation

Transformation of 3rd Party Risk Management

AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is dedicated to transforming the future of healthcare by unlocking the power of what science can do for people, society and the planet. To do so, we need high confidence across our activities and also those of our third parties. We transformed our third party risk process in 2022. The was a highly complex programme, integ...

highly commended

SABIC Supplier Base

SABIC

SABIC Supplier Base project was launched to build a systematic and dynamic approach to bring real-time visibility to all SABIC suppliers, globally, along with their scope of supply. Providing a value-added tool for buyers, which will optimize the sourcing process and competitive pricing as well as boost the local content. SABIC supplie...

Big Data in the Supply Chain: nth tier concentration & managing operational resiliency

Lloyds Banking Group

With a mission of Helping Britain Prosper and in a cost of living crisis, the ability of Banks to maintain and improve services for customers is more important than ever. Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) annually spends c.£5bn with 2,600 suppliers, with our technology suppliers playing an increasingly vital role in providing services to mill...

Bring Aventra Home

Alstom

The Alstom UK Material Panning team successfully managed the material availability risk while the UK factory went through the production ramp-up. In less than 6 months, while the production has increased by 50%, there have been no production line stoppages due to material shortages. Under the leadership of Chris Jones and Chris Hall, s...

CO2 Risk Mitigation

Molson Coors

Due to escalating Natural Gas prices resulting in severe disruptions and shortages of CO2 across the whole of mainland Europe and the UK, production at Molson Coors and our contract pack partner production sites were left in an extremely vulnerable position. Molson Coors had to work quickly, diligently and cross functionally in order t...

Risk Mitigation through Diversification of Retail Cash Management channels

Shell India Markets

Shell’s Mobility India established a new contract with existing partner. Research in existing solutions in the market to benchmark competitive cost & identify risk for the contract duration helped excellence in contract finalisation. Scope was historic with manual interventions creating more work and risks like errors, data leakage, ro...

Best Collaborative Teamwork Project

Hotel Room Of The Future

Whitbread

Whitbread’s Premier Inn brand is the world’s leading budget hotel brand, but to stay top, you must innovate! Our Procurement team led the cross-functional transformation of Hotel Room Of The Future, with ground-breaking innovation which form our core product for the next decade around the three key elements of a good night’s sleep: -c...

Build and Develop Supply Chain Executive Dashboards

Safaricom

Build and Develop Dashboards to drive Realtime Analytics and Insights for Data-Driven Decision Making, creating a single source of truth for supply chain and Senior leadership Team. The dashboards built a resilient, efficient and an agile procurement organization. This project promoted data driven decisions, high operational efficien...

Demand Management as an End-to-End Partnership

Philip Morris International

PMI radical business transformation towards a Smoke-Free future requires rigorous cost management to fuel the future. Demand Management is End-to-End Partnership project that implemented new ways of working, enhancing collaboration and integration between Procurement, Business and Finance, to guarantee visibility over future spending/s...

Pathfinders: Collaborating for a greener electricity grid

National Grid Electricity System Operator

To achieve its net-zero commitment by 2050, the UK must connect significant volumes of green generation like wind and solar. At the same time, there is a growing need for new network services to keep the grid running smoothly during this green energy transition. Since 2021, National Grid’s Procurement team has worked collaboratively wi...

Roadmap to Zero

Santander UK

In 2020, Santander UK commenced an ambitious business-wide programme, Transformation for Success (TfS). The goal was to deliver a digital-first leading customer experience whilst significantly reducing cost-to-income ratio. Given the impact on customer experience, total cost and sustainability goals, Mail & Print was viewed as a key...

Winning together through frictionless supply synergies

Virgin Media O2

We believe that this project perfectly exemplifies the power of effective cross-functional collaboration in achieving profound success in vendor management. Our efforts have resulted in benefits not just for our business, but for our partner and customers too. In summary: Virgin Media O2 secured £6m in discounts from a key partner, un...

Best Commitment To Carbon Reduction In Supply Chains NEW

Upstream decarbonization - The Zero Carbon Project

Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric engaged 1000+ suppliers, accounting for >65% of emissions from purchased goods and services. >70% of suppliers have no previous knowledge of emission calculation and reduction. Extensive support, including >150 live trainings, free digital tools- including GHG calculators, emission reduction roadmap, decarbonization...

Corporate IT carbon footprint mapping & baselining

AXA UK & Ireland

AXA Procurement managed and leveraged an opportune RFP process, to drive the creation of an initiative to discover a meaningful picture of greenhouse gas emissions arising from AXA’s dependency on its IT systems, infrastructure and services. The modelling and learning to date is already informing AXA’s sourcing and system design decisi...

Driving a sustainable supply chain

Lloyds Banking Group

Tackling the climate crisis goes hand in hand with Lloyds Banking Group’s (LBG) purpose of Helping Britain Prosper. This includes taking accountability for the emissions generated through our supply chain. In 2022 we delivered a programme at pace that: •Quantified our scope 3 supply chain emissions. •Enabled a public commitment t...

Fleet Solid Support (FSS) Ship Aquisition Project

Ministry of Defence

The Defence Equipment and Support’s (DE&S) Fleet Solid Support (FSS) project has pioneered the Royal Navy’s ship acquisition approach to net zero 2050 by procuring ships that will dramatically reduce their carbon impact at start of life whilst enabling the transfer from diesel to zero carbon fuels over their in-service life. In doing s...

Implementation of PPN 06/21 to decarbonise Public Sector procurement

Cabinet Office and Crown Commercial Service

The Cabinet Office introduced a world leading procurement policy, requiring suppliers bidding for major contracts to publish a 'Carbon Reduction Plan' (CRP) in support of the UK's Net Zero targets. This measure has already been applied to over £200bn of procurements, resulting in thousands of suppliers across the world publicly commi...

Juice your truck with electricity!

innocent

Innocent’s new carbon neutral factory ‘blender’ is a factory that has thought about sustainability at every-step of the design process. By locating it in the Port of Rotterdam, the supplychain was shortened by 20%. We’re all about inspiring wider-change, so to take steps further, zero-emission transportation was introduced on the main ...

Redefining our value - pivoting Procurement to deliver on our carbon agenda

Sainsbury's

With a bold corporate commitment on carbon reduction, the Sainsbury’s Procurement team embarked on a major journey to deliver these ambitions. We leveraged this opportunity to "redefine our value” in the organisation and put business priorities at the heart of Procurement. We achieved this by thinking differently about how we set up as...

Best Initiative To Build A Diverse Supply Base

Supply Chain Diversity Programme

His Majesty's Government (HMG) & Boeing

A joint UK Government (multiple departments) and industry team (Boeing US & UK) has worked to deliver a bespoke programme of activities to support and promote opportunities for smaller suppliers within the aerospace sector. This multi-part programme is designed to help grow and develop smaller suppliers in order to diversify UK and glo...

Building a diverse supply base is at the heart of mutuality

Coventry Building Society

Coventry Building Society’s place-based strategy means that giving people the power to be better off through life focuses on people and the economy in the West Midlands (which is 38% non-white). They have increased the number of diverse suppliers (local firms, small businesses and organisations owned and managed by underrepresented gro...

Building Diverse Supply Chains: ONE Team - Endless Opportunities

Sellafield

Sellafield Ltd predominantly relies on the supply chain to delivery of its purpose, i.e. to create a clean and safe environment for the future generations. With almost £1.5B of annual spend, diverse demand, as part of the complex work carried out, requires diverse supply chain to deliver our objectives. Acknowledging the supply chain a...

Launch of Pfizer Supplier Diversity program in 35 markets (Europe and Developed Asia)

Pfizer

Pfizer has committed to achieving a breakthrough goal of increasing spend with diverse supplier by 50% by 2025, this lead to the implementation of a standardised diversity program across the IDM commercial region. Working with key advocacy groups, business stakeholders and procurement colleagues an education and inclusion project was u...

SABIC Supplier Base

SABIC

SABIC Supplier Base project was launched to build a systematic and dynamic approach to bring real-time visibility to all SABIC suppliers, globally, along with their scope of supply. Providing a value-added tool for buyers, which will optimize the sourcing process and competitive pricing as well as boost the local content. SABIC supplie...

Supplier Diversity Programme

Pinsent Masons

We wanted to transform and diversify our supply chain, making it a strategic asset for the firm. Our programme: • Established a team with buy-in from senior management; • Changed buyer perceptions of diverse suppliers; • Forged strong relationships with external organisations; • Used technology to impact change. Major succe...

Technology Sourcing Programme (TSP)

HMRC

HMRC faced a once in a generation challenge of disaggregating a handful of monolithic contracts, that had run for 25+ years, were worth over £1bn in IT spend pa, were due to expire yet accounted for the majority of IT services across the estate. It could be argued that the services affect more citizens than any other organisation in th...

Best Initiative To Deliver Social Value Through Procurement

Harnessing CBRE Procurement Spend to Drive Social Value

CBRE

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) UK has changed the way it engages with clients and suppliers to ensure helping people and protecting our planet are at the heart of its approach. It’s harnessed its significant procurement budget to deliver greater social value. First, by increasing spend with social enterprises, organisations with...

Driving Social Value

National Highways

National Highways has developed a multi-faceted strategy to driving enhanced social value outcomes from our projects. Having consulted with stakeholders to agree social value imperatives, we have engaged extensively with the supply chain to communicate these and provide clarity, consistency and focus that allows us to work together to ...

Education Bursary funded by social value contributions

Hammersmith & Fulham Council

Socioeconomic outcomes for young people leaving local authority care are much poorer than for others entering the labour market. The Education Bursary project optimises supplier social value contributions, to reduce inequality in education, training, and career prospects for under-funded Hammersmith & Fulham’s care leavers. The projec...

Healthcare Quality Management and Procurement Collaborate to create social value contributions through improved quality patient care

Evercare Group

As an impact driven healthcare Organisation, it is our mission to provide accessible, safe and quality healthcare to the patients and the communities that we serve. Operating in emerging markets presents an opportunity to educate and bring impact in quality healthcare and thus creating social value. Our Procurement function delivers so...

HS2 Main Works Civils - C23

EKFB

EKFB are delivering 80km of civil engineering works for HS2. ESG goals and objectives form a golden thread throughout EKFB’s procurement and supply chain management, forming a core theme within procurement policies, plans, and processes, where social value is considered during acquisition planning, sourcing, selection, and performance ...

Lower Otter Restoration Project

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

In Defra, we deal with a vast range of issues that profoundly impact on everyone’s lives. Responsible for England’s environment, countryside and rural economy, the food and farming sectors together with mitigating impacts from natural threats and hazards. Our mission is to restore and enhance the environment for the next generation, le...

Project LOCALVANTAGE

MTN Group – Global Sourcing & Supply Chain

MTN Group is dedicated to the growth and support of Small & Medium Enterprise Suppliers (SMEs) and Women-owned businesses. With a vendor base of approximately 21,000 suppliers, a significant portion (about 30%+) of these suppliers are SMEs, spread across 19 different markets in Africa. Recently, we launched "LOCALVANTAGE". This B2B P...

Social Value Supplier Engagement Event

Northern Ireland Water

In 2021, the Northern Ireland Executive approved a policy, whereby in June 2022 all tenders (above threshold) must include a minimum of 10% of the total award criteria to social value. With this significant change in public procurement, NI Water wanted to ensure that their Commercial Procurement team, existing and potential suppliers a...

Supply Teachers Framework

Welsh Government – Commercial Delivery

This submission details the re-procurement of a framework for supply teacher recruitment agencies across Wales. It demonstrates how, through the procurement and subsequent contract management of this framework, we have addressed problems with low pay rates for workers, transparency of agency fees, access to professional development opp...

Best Practice In Supply Chain Integration

Retal Supply Chain & Finance Digitalization Process

Retal Urban Development

Retal Urban Development is the fastest-growing property development company in Saudi Arabia, with a well-earned reputation for trustworthiness and exceeding expectations. Its most recent project is an exemplar of how it earned this reputation. Within nine months it converted its procurement system from an isolated, manual system to a ...

highly commended

Improving Urgent and Emergency Care through Digital

NHS Lancashire Procurement Cluster

At East Lancashire NHS Hospitals Trust, the Emergency Department was under increased pressure and were looking for a solution to free up clinical staff hours back to patient care and reduce patient waiting times. We rapidly deployed the Dynamic Inventory Management System - Atticus - in parallel with an increased staffing model to t...

Enabling Successful Procurement Planning

Sellafield

Sellafield is the largest industrial complex and second biggest construction site in the UK, delivering circa 600 live construction projects, has 6,000 buildings across 6km2, 20 external site locations, with the supply chain playing a vital part in the delivery of the mission with spend more than £1.5bn annually. The Operational Exce...

Implementation of a 4PL Solution for European Rail Logistics

BP

bp utilizes Rail Logistics services to transport products from refineries in Germany to customers throughout Europe. The activities include managing daily operations, rail tank car maintenance and leasing activities, management of commercial contracting activities (including tendering, invoice management), and performance management of...

National Highways TVO

National Highways

The National Highways’ (NH) methodology for major enhancements and renewals has moved away from the traditional lowest price purchase of materials on a scheme-by-scheme basis and towards an all-encompassing cost and value perspective on a programmatic level. The move was first seen in 2018, with the award of the Regional Delivery Partn...

UK Road Transport Management Insource

British Steel

Brexit, COVID-19, driver shortages and changing laws led to an unacceptable risk of disruption to our product and material distribution in the UK. Coupled with a lack of data from our provider, a multi-functional team took the strategic decision to insource UK road deliveries. With nearly 2 million tonnes of material moved annually, th...

Best Procurement Transformation Programme

“SpendVision” Realizing the Nation's Vision through Smart Spend Management

EXPRO

The challenges posed by the public procurement process were a major obstacle to Saudi Arabia’s 2030 vision. Over $100 billion, accounting for 35% of the national budget, was being channeled through public procurement across 500+ government entities, that lacked agility. A central Government Procurement Unit was established, achieving ...

highly commended

Stronger Together

NHS

North West London Integrated Care System (NWL ICS) is a collective of 9 NHS Organisations (8 Trusts and an Integrated Care Board (ICB)). Prior to this transformation programme, procurement across NWL ICS was decentralised with 140 staff working across seven different procurement teams (in different legal entities). The Stronger Toge...

Building One FCDO Commercial

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

In June 2020, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office merged with the Department for International Development to form the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office. Prior to the formation of FCDO in 2020, DIFD and the FCO each had two commercial directorates that were similar in terms of size of spend and functional cost. The merger req...

Building stronger foundations for procurement excellence in the Construction Industry

Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty's financial struggles around 2014 were partly attributed to ineffective and inefficient procurement systems and practices. Within the "Build to Last" transformation strategy, the Procurement function has since undergone a major transformation under revised leadership who aimed to eliminate cost, generate cash, and transf...

Intellisense 360 -- E2E Procurement Digital & AI Strategic Solution

Micron Technology

In 2021, Micron’s Smart Manufacturing team and Global Procurement team started a joint initiative to develop a state-of-the-art solution using best in class frameworks and the latest AI technologies to manage procurement more efficiently and effectively. With this objective, Intellisense 360 – an in-house AI based solution was develope...

Procurement Solutions Digital Playbook

CBRE

The CBRE Procurement Solutions Digital Playbooks operate on a global platform with a single-access point to all category management knowledge, ESG programming, CBRE Consultancy, supplier relations and performance content, including other primary procurement workstreams delivering the latest relevant category resources and market intell...

Transformation at Speed & Volume During a Global Pandemic

Randox Laboratories

During the global pandemic, with disrupted supply chains, Randox built and sustained amongst the largest PCR laboratories in the world. 80,000 sqft of laboratories were operationalised and 25 million PCR tests processed; capacity increased from 300 to 120,000 tests/day. Critically, laboratory processes were never hampered by supply sho...

Transformation for Success

Santander UK

As part of the Transformation for Success programme, the Santander UK Procurement team commenced our journey in 2021. Our vision was focused around around the deployment of strategies to: - Build significant capability - Align behind the business - Release significant value This provided the rare opportunity to reimagine the rol...

Best Supplier Relationship Management Initiative

LEAP Partnership for Sustainability

Leonardo

AD&S Industry is facing a period of increasing challenges, with an unprecedented need to accelerate the speed of products and processes innovation and the introduction of new technologies along the value chain. It is a business opportunity for the most qualified suppliers, but requires supply chains to make a leap in terms of strength,...

highly commended

Implementing Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) across the Technology Sourcing Programme

HMRC

Having established a best practice approach to managing its strategic suppliers, the HMRC Supplier Relationship Management Team faced the challenge of implementing Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) through the disaggregation of its IT services. Within 10 months, it embedded it’s Best in Class SRM approach with its 3 legacy supplie...

Collaboration with our most innovative partners

CBRE

A core element of our Partner Excellence Program (PEP) is how we collaborate with our partners on innovation. This is a true differentiator in our industry, supporting CBRE, our suppliers and clients. No other integrated facilities management company does this. Our framework provides training, support, and tools to procurement teams fo...

Going Global: Transforming our approach to contingent labour

National Grid

In a tight employment market where talent is at a premium, National Grid works with contingent labour to support its UK and US operations. In 2021 the Procurement team embarked on an ambitious journey to replace our existing regional model for managing the contingent workforce with a global contract working with a single strategic part...

Implementing SRM during global organisational & digital transformation

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

The FCDO has a global operation with 270 posts world-wide, 24,000 users, and a high cyber security threat profile. With the implementation of an ambitious digital strategy, there was a need for improved SRM with our strategic technology suppliers to ensure delivery against an increasingly complex environment. SRM was successfully estab...

Supplier Relationship Management Strategy

National Highways

As a significant procuring authority, National Highways recognises we has a role to play in meeting the challenges of the day: carbon reduction, improved productivity, skills shortages, etc. We also recognise that this cannot be done in isolation - the talents, capacity and experiences of our supply chains are crucial to our long term ...

Best Sustainability Project Of The Year

Juice your truck with electricity!

innocent

Innocent’s ‘the Blender’ is a factory that has thought about sustainability at every step of the design process. It is one of the world’s first carbon neutral factories, built mainly with locally sourced materials which has been certified BREEAM NL Outstanding. By choosing the Port of Rotterdam as its home, the Blender has shortened in...

highly commended

Downer Branded Clothing_Recycling Programme

Downer New Zealand

Manaaki Taiao means care and respect for our environment and is one of Downer’s core values. To embed this into daily business, Downer’s Procurement team have formed a partnership with Upparel, who aim to reduce, re-use and recycle textile waste, therefore reducing the greenhouse gas emissions from waste decomposition. The new partne...

CBRE Net Zero Supply Chain

CBRE

CBRE Procurement needed to identify its supply chain emissions baseline, measure suppliers’ actual (primary) emissions, identify hotspots and track improvements. Our supply chain includes 132,500 suppliers, $31 billion of spend directly and managing $55 billion through our clients systems. CBRE has committed to be Net Zero by 204...

Heathrow 2.0 Balanced Scorecard

Heathrow Airport

Heathrow in partnership with global professional services firm Turner & Townsend has developed an innovative new procurement tool that is at the heart of delivering the airport’s ambitious sustainability strategy. The Balanced Scorecard tool has taken Heathrow’s bold sustainability targets and focused them down into a tangible clear se...

Return and reuse of walking aids

NHS England Net Zero & Sustainable Procurement Team

The NHS spends millions purchasing 100,000s of walking aids every year. Walking aids are in the top 20 medical devices contributing to the carbon footprint due to the high carbon intensity of aluminium manufacture. The Delivering a Net Zero NHS report set the target of a 40% return rate by 2025. Activity around walking aids reuse ha...

UPL Procurement Sustainability project

UPL

Within period of last 18 months, UPL procurement team covered 80% of its supplies (by value) under sustainability program. Substantial scale up of program, enabled through e-procurement tool, helped to garner completion of Sustainability evaluation of 70% of global supplies (by value). 30% of supplies were classified as “Sustainable-at...

Best Use Of Digital Technology

AI Enhanced Vehicle Safety Inspections

Shell

In partnership with Shell Oman, Shell’s Digital GameChanger Lab was tasked with identifying innovative solutions designed to enhance safety protocols for our contractor’s vehicles. Since early 2022 hundreds of HSE audits took place, with the purposes of receiving insights into the performance of contractors and their approach to vehicl...

AI Procurement Flow Project

SABIC

SABIC push the limits of technical performance to bring innovative and sustainable solutions to Lead Change and Accelerate Growth with collaboration of data science consultation firms. AI Procurement Flow includes the implementation of digital procurement platforms to automate the entire procurement process, the use of robotic process ...

Everyone Loves Mali

Network Rail

Within Network Rail, delays to procurement of technological innovations can hinder the pace of improvements in safety, wellbeing and customer experience. To address this, a cross functional team was established to digitise the entire tender process. The solution - launched in August 2022 - comprises a robotic process automation bot (‘M...

Portland Community College Improves Contract Lifecycle Management with Agiloft CLM

Agiloft

Problem: Portland Community College needed to improve its contract lifecycle management. Its procurement and contracting processes were jeopardizing the school’s mission of providing world-class education through stellar student services. Challenges: PCC experienced loss of contract data from disintegrated systems, siloed department ...

Sourcing & Spend Optimisation using Keelvar and Sievo

Chalhoub Group

Winning an award for best use of digital technology is significant for our procurement team for a variety of reasons. Receiving recognition and validation for the team's hard work and dedication in implementing innovative digital solutions that have had a positive impact on the procurement process is extremely rewarding. It will show s...

Transforming the buying experience for 35,000 users and 20,000 suppliers globally

AstraZeneca & KPMG

We transformed the buying experience at AstraZeneca through the implementation of Coupa, leveraging KPMG’s Powered Procurement approach. This delivered significant impact for colleagues such as scientists and researchers, by freeing-up time for them to focus on more strategic and value-add activities. User experience scores nearly doub...

Unleashing Digital Supplier Collaboration

British American Tobacco

BAT’s New Categories Procurement team transitioned its operating model to strengthen relationships with suppliers and improve performance visibility. The team identified digital tools as a key enabler of this transition and implemented a combination of strategies including Bill of Materials management, risk assessment, cost modelling, ...

Outstanding Diversity And Inclusion Practices In Procurement Teams

Highway to EDI

National Highways

National Highways does not only see it as a social responsibility to improve equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), but also a way to further business outcomes and environments. Therefore, since 2015 National Highways has set the objective to improve EDI not only internally but also throughout our supply chain. By developing supplie...

Control the Controllable

BAE Systems Naval Ships

Caroline and the team have been instrumental in breaking down the stigma surrounding mental health. Particularly within the operations environment, they have redefined culture to become more open, honest and inclusive. They have ensured everyone has the opportunity to discuss their own mental health, especially those who don’t receive ...

Government Commercial Function Social Mobility Network

Government Commercial Function, Government Commercial Organisation

The Government Commercial Function’s (GCF) Social Mobility Network was first established in November 2021 to raise awareness and improve understanding of Social Mobility and wider diversity and inclusion (D&I) issues faced by staff from lower socio-economic backgrounds (LSEBs). The Network also had the objective of delivering a school’...

Staff engagement and underrepresentation

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Defra Group Commercial have addressed the issue of falling staff engagement and growing underrepresentation of some groups by taking a people centred approach to inclusion and creating an environment where staff feel welcome and supported. We achieved this using employee volunteers to strengthen engagement and inclusion of staff throug...

Women in Procurement

Chalhoub Group

Procurement has a significant impact on organizational culture and supplier practices, and recognition for diversity and inclusion practices validates the team's efforts to promote a more equitable workplace while also influencing supplier practices. Employees today prioritize diversity and inclusion in the workplace, and existing empl...

Outstanding People Development Programme

People Development Project

Schneider Electric

At Schneider Electric Procurement, we continue to transform and create competitive edge by investing in people capabilities through upskilling and reskilling. Post pandemic situation including supply chain shortages posed tremendous challenges and sought for differentiated strategies to compete in the markert. Hence, competency accele...

highly commended

The Contract Management Capability Programme - Realising the Benefits

Government Commercial Function, Cabinet Office

The Contract Management Capability Programme within the Government Commercial Function, established to provide training, development and accreditation to public sector contract managers managing firms supplying services to the taxpayer, experienced a challenging year in 2022. The first post-pandemic year saw central funding restriction...

Building capability and driving value through Commercial Masterclasses

Northern Ireland Water

Northern Ireland Water’s newly established Commercial Function recognised that people and culture would form the cornerstone of delivering its objective of building capability to drive even greater value from our supply chain. To do this we needed to recruit, retain and invest in our people; sharing skills and knowledge from different ...

Evolution of Supplier Management Capability

Lloyds Banking Group

LBG’s Supplier Management Capability Programme ensures; Stakeholder expectations are exceeded by Increasing Supplier Management capability beyond traditional supplier management skills We focus on role importance and invest to attract, develop and retain industry leading supplier management talent We drive consistency in Suppl...

National Highways Roads Academy

National Highways

National Highways' Roads Academy is an industry leading, multi-format training facility designed and operated with the specific purpose of developing existing and future leaders within our industry. It is not just for our own organisation - to be truly impactful it is essential that we support our supply chain partners in developing th...

Procurement Consultancy Project Of The Year

Scope 3 Community

Deloitte, Pearson and Santander

The Scope 3 Community was launched by Deloitte in February 2022, following many conversations with clients and collaborators who commonly identified obtaining reliable Scope 3 emissions data as one of the most pressing issues in the procurement space.This offering has allowed Community members, including founding members Pearson and Sa...

Border Force Commercial Surge Support

PwC

The Home Office faced complex challenges – especially at its borders. With a growing number of asylum-seekers, and a backlog of applications to process, costs of accommodation were increasing. Left unchecked, these issues would waste public money. Behind the issues lay a weight of contracts. Commercial Services were under huge pressure...

Driving Efficiency Performance in the Supply Chain

Curzon Consulting

National Highways (NH) manages road networks through a multi-tiered Supply Chain. We supported NH to enhance effectiveness in managing its Supply Chain by strengthening NH’s ability to: •Lead data and intelligence-based dialogues with the Supply Chain on solutions and sourcing alternatives. •Initiate and conduct productivity perform...

Infosys Portland & NEOM Shared Services: Global Professional Services

Infosys Portland

Supporting one of the worlds largest start ups. Infosys Portland worked with NEOM to transform their Professional Services Category to deliver substantial value. Driving compliance, deliverying savigns and building local capability in Saudi Arabia.

Labor Services Procurement Transformation

BearingPoint

BearingPoint assisted Dow in their quest to transform its labor services procurement. Starting with an assessment of Dow's cross-functional work process and analyzing gaps, BearingPoint designed and implemented Comengy (powered by AES/32), SaaS solution for contractor management. As a result, Dow was able to automate the contract-to-pa...

North London Heat and Power Project

Arup

The North London Heat and Power Project (NLHPP) is a ten-year programme to build an Energy Recovery Facility, replacing the existing plant at Edmonton Eco-Park, London. The new facility will be the most efficient in the UK and be built using advanced technology, generating 70 megawatts of electricity to power 127,000 homes and providin...

Preparing for global disruptions

PRISM

•BT Sourced and PRISM worked together to build a risk management system for long-term global disruptions such as political and economic volatility. •We brought together the best of country research, AI monitoring, and innovative delivery methods to embed global risk information throughout the organization and its culture. •We develope...

Project Raptor

PwC

Facing a strong customer challenge in 2021 on the projected costs for Batch 2 of Type 26 Frigates, BAES asked PwC to work collaboratively with BAES, suppliers and MoD to realise over £100m of savings. Project Raptor drove cross-functional teamwork to identify savings opportunities, then established rigorous governance to qualify, secur...

Public Procurement Project Of The Year

Operation London Bridge

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Queen Elizabeth II passed away on Thursday 8th September 2022. In response to this HMG put into action Operation London Bridge which was the organisation of the 10 day period of national and international mourning for the UK’s longest-serving monarch which included the journey of Queen Elizabeth II from Buckingham Palace to Westminster...

Major Works Investment Programme

L&Q

This investment programme is the most extensive ever proposed in the housing sector and will leave a legacy for L&Q residents. Due to its scale and complexity, it will require a fundamentally different approach to how the programme is procured, managed, and delivered. A fundamental aim is for procurement and supply chain management ...

National Highways' Scheme Delivery Framework

National Highways

National Highways' Scheme Delivery Framework revolutionised our procurement processes, driving choice and competition across the UK. We not only re-imagined how to structure the framework to provide better support localised delivery that reduces cost and carbon, but we also re-designed procurement processes with the specific intent of...

New Prison Capacity Programme

Ministry of Justice

In 2021, MOJ formed a multi-disciplinary construction division to deliver an ambitious programme to rapidly expand the Prison Estate by 20,000 places and drives commercial/construction excellence within the industry. This portfolio involves the procurement and design/build of innovative/complex infrastructure projects nationwide. MoJ d...

Post Office Horizon Programme

Department for Business and Trade

In the 1990s, the Post Office installed Horizon accounting software. However, faults in the software led to apparent shortfalls in accounts. The Post Office demanded sub-postmasters cover the shortfalls, and in many cases wrongfully prosecuted them between 1999 and 2015 for false accounting or theft. This is considered one of the bigge...

Technology Sourcing Programme (TSP)

HMRC

HMRC has one of the most complex IT estates in Europe with over 600 systems/800 terabytes of data/1,000 IT changes a month and a 24/7 IT operation. These are nationally critical systems serving 45m customers/over 5 million businesses taxpayers accounting for £737 billion in tax revenue . HMRC faced a once in a generation challenge of...

UK Energy Bill Support

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

“The world is in the midst of its first global energy crisis – a shock of unprecedented breadth and complexity” (1) – International Energy Authority (IEA) As increased demand during the post-Covid reopening of economies coincided with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Energy Bill Support teams in BEIS delivered nine different schemes...

Upscaling of digital pathology capabilities across the PathLAKE Plus consortium

HealthTrust Europe

PathLAKE Plus, a consortium of 19 NHS Trusts, formed to deliver digital pathology, AI capabilities and laboratory interoperability as part of the OLS Digital Pathology and imaging AI Scale Up Programme. The digitisation of histopathology slides into whole slide images improves efficiency by reducing waiting time for reports. It creates...

Procurement Team Of The Year - SMALL ORGANISATION

ForgeRock

ForgeRock

In 2021 the ForgeRock board committed to establishing a greenfield procurement function to support key strategic priorities including YoY revenue growth, driving towards sustainable profitability, rapid procurement supporting the sales and marketing functions to grow the business, improving colleague engagement and enhancing the custom...

London Luton Airport

Tasked with driving the recovery and growth of London Luton Airport (LLA) following the devastation of the pandemic, LLA procurement team focused on supporting the local supply chain and local community sustainably. Key achievements were: •Adoption of the Real Living Wage (RLW) for suppliers •Increasing local supply spend - 53%...

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing

MTVH are proud to submit their Procurement Team in this category. This submission details how the team has flexed and grown, if not by numbers, instead in terms of effectiveness, impact, and status, over the last 2 years. From operating quickly and efficiently during the global pandemic, to embedding a culture of trust and confidence p...

Retal Urban Development

Retal Urban Development’s procurement team have demonstrated foresight, resilience, and leadership this year, as they spearheaded an initiative to migrate all procurement operations across Retal, its sister companies, and vendors. Within only nine months, the team identified the opportunity, gained leadership buy-in, helped to design ...

UCAS

To meet our customers’ changing needs and grow our customer base, UCAS has had to quickly develop our approach to engaging with third parties. Our procurement team has driven this change, working collaboratively with teams across the organisation to build the commercial capability, plan procurement activity and resource, and implement...

Vectura Fertin Pharma

The VFPh Procurement team ensures its pharmaceutical and medical device supply chains work to world class standards and ensures that supplier relationship management (SRM) and risk mitigation processes operate to good effect. The team has collaborated cross-functionally, shown great personal resilience and developed an enviable reputat...

Procurement Team Of The Year - LARGE ORGANISATION

MTN Group – Global Sourcing & Supply Chain

As Africa's largest mobile network operator, we manage over USD 12 billion in annual spend across 21,000 suppliers and manage complex supply chain operations. Our procurement transformation program was aimed at achieving a complete overhaul of Sourcing operations. Unlike most procurement transformations that focus on specific projects...

highly commended

Sainsbury's

We set out to ‘redefine our value’, to become leaders in driving Sustainability, Commercial Transformation, Supply Chain Resilience and Digitalisation. ‘The Procurement team have been a driving force behind accelerating transformation and reducing carbon across Sainsbury’s. The team have changed the way we talk about value, challeng...

C. & J. Clark International

Over the last 18 months the Clarks GNFR Procurement Team has been rebuilt into a highly effective and efficient team. This was done in part by increasing team moral, resetting team objectives and giving people clear responsibilities to manage their own spend categories. The team exceeded all their KPIs in 2022 and put the ground work i...

PepsiCo China

In 2022, PepsiCo China Procurement team faced barrage of challenges due to China's strict lockdown measures to deliver elevated productivity, guarantee an uninterrupted supply chain, and ensure employee satisfaction. Packaging is a significant spend category for PepsiCo China. Notwithstanding these challenges, the team developed new ...

Randox Laboratories

Randox Laboratories

During the global pandemic, with disrupted supply chains, Randox built and sustained amongst the largest PCR laboratories in the world. 80,000 sqft of laboratories were operationalised and 25 million PCR tests processed; capacity increased from 300 to 120,000 tests/day. Critically, laboratory processes were never hampered by supply sho...

Virgin Media O2

In June 2021, the UK’s biggest mobile network joined forces with the UK’s fastest broadband provider. Over 16,000 employees came together, and Virgin Media O2 was born. And since then, the Procurement team has been on a journey to build a high performing, integrated data driven and digitally enabled procurement function that proactivel...

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Sustainable Procurement Champion NEW

winner

Christophe Quiquempoix

Schneider Electric

finalist

Dr. Akilah Jardine

Orbis Procurement

finalist

Kevin Victory

Lloyds Banking Group

finalist

Madeline Lodge

Sodexo

finalist

Rebecca Howard

Coventry Building Society

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Leader Of The Year

winner

Anna Spinelli

Young Talent

winner

Kristina Andric

Tetra Pak

finalist

Claudia LeBlanc

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

finalist

Luke Poundall

Bidcorp UK

finalist

Sam Tew

Lloyds Banking Group

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Vince Naylor

Santander UK

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