ACCENTURE
procurement offering which Nowosel is visibly excited about as a practicing Chief Procurement Officer . “ Because this is more than source to pay – which is not all that sexy . We call it Procurement Plus . Procurement Plus gives you a little bit of an indication that our procurement function has a vision that goes beyond a traditional procurement function , that also gives you an understanding about the size of the organisation .” So , what exactly is in the ‘ plus ’?’
“ From a Procurement perspective , I run all venture and acquisitions on a due diligence side and on the commercial synergy side . So , that in itself is already a big team . In the past three years Accenture has completed roughly 70 acquisitions , that is a lot of work to integrate and to bring it into the right process and supplier panel . And we are buying more and more diverse portfolios . So , in the past we bought a lot of IT and now that we own a lot of agencies , we even budget for things like hair , makeup and other logistics for photoshoots and so on – it ’ s getting quite diverse . So , V & A to M & A is one . I also run all accounts payable , so I really have a P2P responsibility in that logic .
“ I also run something which is extremely close to the heart of where I see Accenture and the function going , and that is Supplier Inclusion and Sustainability ,” continues Nowosel . “ So , I run all our corporate social responsibility agendas that are attached to our supply chain . I also run the contractor business – one of the biggest categories I oversee . I basically do all the contractor onboard identification , onboarding , background checking
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