Culture
Our engagement survey action planning had this number of distinct actions, including two that focused on our procurement operations team.
What is four?
This deliverable is the responsibility of the category lead and includes steps such as internal and external analysis.
Our sourcing process is generally mentioned as having this many steps (at least in NA).
What is seven?
Jen Shomenta is the owner of this number of capabilities for indirect procurement.
What is six?
This mindset shift was introduced to help teams manage volatility, reduce noise, and focus on work with the greatest impact.
What is ruthless prioritization?
NA Procurement’s overall engagement score came in at this percentage, noted as below the global Cargill average of 86%.
What is 76%?
This is the last step of the strategy development process and should set up the buying group to execute sourcing events and manage the category well until the need to refresh the strategy arises.
What is Execution Plan?
This role is the primary negotiator for sourcing events and should likely have the highest skills in negotiation.
What is Senior Buyer/Buyer III?
Along with looking at our corporate function spend, this capability was our other focus this year, seeking to improve the procure to pay process.
What is purchasing and payments?
One of the CRITICAL THREE focuses on cost impact through execution of buying pipelines and category “big bets.”
What is Deliver Cost Reduction?
One of the team’s highlighted strengths scored 86% and was called out as something to keep building on.
What is Vision & Values?
This type of project will likely start with category strategy and transition to buyer execution, delivering transformational value to the organization.
What is Big Bet?
This procurement role is primarily a consult or inform for most sourcing events.
What is a category lead?
This capability is combined with spend analysis that focuses on transforming internal and external data into actionable insights.
What is Market Analysis?
This priority aims to improve consistency, clarity, and collaboration across the organization by defining how teams interact.
What is Strengthen How We Work by implementing the CPT Operating Model & Business Interaction Model?
This improvement area was identified at 62%, with examples like needing resources to do a good job and eliminating unnecessary procedures.
What is Employee Empowerment?
This deliverable is the primary accountability of the category manager and is the highest level of strategy and planning for their category.
What is Category Business Plan?
This role is the primary approver for check points during the sourcing event process.
What is buying team lead?
We recently renamed the Corporate Strategic Sourcing to this, focusing on the spend of groups like DT&D, Finance, and HR.
What is Corporate Function Procurement?
Only two capability enablement initiatives continued because they directly support maturing sourcing and investing in talent—this one focuses on buyer training.
What is the Training Sprint for the Buying Team?
This was listed as one of the four key engagement survey actions, focused on improving role clarity and ways of working.
What is Clarify the Operating Model and Collaboration Between Category and Buying Teams?
This strategy delivery step includes L3 category prioritization and hypothesis generation and testing.
What is opportunity analysis?
This tool was developed by the buying team this year to ensure alignment prior to and during the sourcing event process
What is Sourcing Plan?
Pam and Summer are starting a program to enhance and accelerate this capability.
What is Sourcing and Category management?
Under the CRITICAL THREE, this type of work is no longer mandated across the organization and is instead prioritized at the team level.
What are supplier management training and supplier partnership plans?