While the COVID-19 pandemic raised the profile of procurement as an important strategic lever to support organisational outcomes, it also placed huge challenges on procurement leaders, with recruitment and retention more difficult than ever because of talent shortages across the profession.
Blog by Rhian Rogers
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Introducing Cydrannu
Cydrannu is name of our new knowledge sharing series for procurement and commercial professionals in Wales. Cydrannu means ‘sharing together’ in Welsh and is core to what Cyd is all about.
Public procurement’s vital role if we are to reach net zero by 2030
Before I started working on the Cyd (the new procurement centre of excellence for Wales) alpha project, I didn’t quite appreciate the enormous difference procurement teams across Wales could do to help us reach net zero by 2030.
Blog by Angharad Prys.
Launching a temporary home for Cyd
Today we’re launching a temporary website for Cyd along with Twitter and LinkedIn accounts to share progress and start conversations about the project.
What’s in a name?
In this blog, we provide an update on how the ‘Procurement Centre of Excellence’ is developing and shares some findings about what it could be called going forward.
Blog by Victoria Ford.
Shaping the procurement profession for future generations
In this second blogpost from our series about procurement, Warren, a member of our delivery […]
Bringing Wales’ commercial and procurement communities together
In October Rebecca Evans MS, Minister for Finance and Local Government announced that a supplier […]