Seventy-one percent of CFOs report that procurement lags most other functions in terms of rigor and depth of performance tracking
CHICAGO, Dec. 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2015 Return on Supply Management Assets (ROSMASM) Performance Check study, Building a Bolder Legacy: The Procurement Mission Is Under Way, finds that top performing procurement organizations improved their performance versus the 2014 report, with most delivering 10 to 15 times returns. Top performers were also found to deliver 7.5 times the costs and investment base in procurement and are expanding their advantage. These leaders generate about $1.25 million in financial benefits per procurement employee per year.
The second annual ROSMA Performance Check is once again a collaboration between A.T. Kearney, the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), and the Charted Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS). The joint initiative's objective is to build the brand of procurement and encourage the profession to embrace advanced value-management practices and stronger CPO-CFO partnerships.
Joe Raudabaugh, A.T. Kearney partner, states, "Procurement faces a transformational period, similar to other corporate disciplines over the past 30 years. Beginning with manufacturing in the 1980s, and moving on to supply chains, research, engineering, and more recently sales and marketing, the mission for procurement organizations is under way—whether procurement is ready or not."
Although top-performing procurement organizations are already delivering substantial financial benefits to their companies, half of the 226 senior financial executives from Australia, France, Germany, the UK and the United States who were surveyed as part of this study believe that bottom- quartile procurement organizations return less than 1.5 times their cost in value. CPOs from these bottom-quartile teams validated this perspective, reporting dilutive performance results with financial benefits insufficient to cover their activities.
Thomas W. Derry, CEO of the Institute for Supply Management, comments, "The growing interest and popularity of the value-from-procurement topic continues to shape the conversations and forums serving the profession. This is not a disruptive force, but a welcomed constructive change agent that challenges us all to 'raise our game,' both in terms of productivity and overall results."
David Noble, CEO of the Chartered Institute for Procurement and Supply, notes, "We can strengthen the position of procurement as a critical source of strategic enterprise value, establish the CPO as a core executive team member integral to the leadership narrative, and position procurement as a preferred career platform for tomorrow's best talent."
The study finds that performance varies widely across all of procurement's key value drivers, including spend coverage, sourcing program velocity, sourcing project yields and outcomes, compliance rates, and operating costs. Procurement remains a function plagued with inconsistent performance in delivering strategic activities.
Many companies are beginning to embrace zero-based budgeting (ZBB). Companies employing ZBB demonstrate game-changing improvements in shareholder value performance by forcing rigorous alignment of resources and expenses. The transparency of ZBB provides top procurement organizations with the opportunity to bring significant value to financial decisions through knowledge of details, behaviors, and costs.
The study authors also note that procurement organizations have the opportunity to attract millennials if the profession is willing to make changes regarding performance tracking and accountability. Millennials prefer to join organizations with value-management practices, specifically where there is transparency, accountability, and recognition of their achievements. Procurement offers millennials the opportunity to learn the business from end-to-end, secure executive access and exposure, and have a significant impact on business performance.
The report also includes validating insight commentary from one of the largest private equity firms reflecting on the procurement performance of their portfolio companies, CPOs of two Fortune 100 companies, the Americas CFO of a Fortune 500 company, and the CEOs of ISM and CIPS.
To view the full report, please go to https://www.atkearney.com/procurement/rosma/2015
About the 2015 ROSMA Performance Check Study and the Voice of the CFO and Finance Community
The ROSMASM Performance Check Benchmarking study collects the financial performance of procurement as reported by participating CPO organizations. A.T. Kearney began ROSMA Performance Check benchmarking in 2009. The cumulative database has more than 520 completed benchmarking surveys. For this report, insights are drawn from 168 surveys that were completed in the last year. For the Voice of the CFO and Finance Community section of the report, 226 senior financial executives from Australia, France, Germany, the UK, and the United States completed the survey this year, with 384 unique voices cumulatively.
About A.T. Kearney
A.T. Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm with offices in more than 40 countries. Since 1926, we have been trusted advisors to the world's foremost organizations. A.T. Kearney is a partner-owned firm, committed to helping clients achieve immediate impact and growing advantage on their most mission-critical issues. For more information, visit www.atkearney.com.
About Institute for Supply Management
Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®) serves supply management professionals in more than 90 countries. Its 48,000 members around the world manage about $1 trillion in corporate and government supply chain procurement annually. Founded in 1915 as the first supply management institute in the world, ISM is committed to advancing the practice of supply management to drive value and competitive advantage for its members, contributing to a prosperous and sustainable world. ISM leads the profession through the ISM Report On Business®, its highly regarded certification programs and the newly launched ISM Mastery Model™. For more information, please visit: www.instituteforsupplymanagement.org.
About The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply
The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) is the world's largest procurement and supply professional organisation. It is the worldwide centre of excellence on procurement and supply management issues. CIPS has a global community of over 114,000 in 150 different countries, including senior business people, high-ranking civil servants and leading academics. The activities of procurement and supply chain professionals have a major impact on the profitability and efficiency of all types of organisation and CIPS offers corporate solutions packages to improve business profitability.
www.cips.org; @CIPSNews
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