What It Provides

The PIU provides a fully categorised, central resource delivering a range of intelligent information services and tools for corporate procurement professionals.

A focus on both common and individual priorities including key agenda topics, industries and markets, suppliers and competitors, best practices and strategy development support provides our members with practical intelligence and planning for both enhanced alignment and advantage, supporting:

  • Short-term and long-term decision making; 
  • Market preparedness; 
  • Enterprise positioning and opportunity to influence decisions; 
  • Role as supply chain data and knowledge integrator; 
  • Continuous function improvement and development.

Essentially, through the expertise of our analyst team, associates and members, as well as our unique access to the wider community, the PIU provides an intelligence source that allows your procurement team to:

  • Eliminate duplication of effort to save time, cost and valuable resource through the efficient shared-first approach; 
  • Access new concepts and thinking; 
  • Bullet-proof and test strategic plans and measures, benchmarking against peers; 
  • Drive savings and process improvements through operational and executive best practices; 
  • Measure the procurement function's current capabilities;
  • Test and develop procurement strategy and transformation plans; 
  • Learn from the experiences and innovations of procurement peers and industry leaders; 
  • Examine category value drivers, market competitiveness and dimensions to support or drive decision-making;
  • Manage risk by tracking market trends, suppliers, competitors; 
  • Build functional alignment and credibility through intelligence; 
  • Meet sensitive or individual research needs through bespoke projects; 
  • Help shape the PIU research agenda.

 

Find out more about Our Audience here.