Why We Are Different
By primarily focusing on common, cross-industry areas of interest while also providing a quality-driven bespoke service, the PIU delivers a cost-, time- and resource-effective method for gathering critical information for making informed decisions.
In addition to the depth of PIU analysis, fully categorised services are provided at both the executive (what to do and why to do it) and operational (how to do it) levels, ensuring value across the entire procurement or sourcing team, from CPOs to category managers to buyers.
The PIU is driven by the needs of the community and their feedback. The unique suite of services assists members in consolidating, understanding and analysing the multitude of topical information, which can impact upon their decision making effectiveness and performance.
The detailed and strategic focus of PIU services also provides procurement leaders with an invaluable information resource as they face increasing demands to deliver tangible benefits to the wider business.
Community Focused
- The PIU research agenda is driven off the needs of the community and their feedback, in order to focus on the most critical market pressures and topics.
Global Network
- Through an extended network of global procurement practitioners, the PIU speaks with and studies the approaches and successes of cross industry practitioners thus solving real life problems and opportunities through real life examples.
Range of Services
- The unique suite of PIU services provides a variety of ways for members to consolidate, understand, share and analyse the multitude of topical information, which can impact upon their decision making effectiveness and performance.
- The full suite of services also enables subscribers to access and share procurement intelligence in their preferred manner.
- Providing a depth and breadth of intelligence, research and benchmarking services at both executive and category levels, providing a consolidated resource for the entire procurement team.
Central Resource
- The PIU provides a central and cost-effective resource for accessing strategic information, as well as the tools, case studies and the shared learnings of peers, which reduces project time, consulting budgets and the need for time consuming and costly information searches.
- By operating under a shared model, the majority of PIU research findings can be shared back across the subscriber base, thus also eliminating the need for replication of effort.
Content Delivery: Focus on outcomes
- Another key differentiator of the PIU is not only the ability to provide a centralised resource for global procurement intelligence, but also the ability to deliver key learnings and insights in a pragmatic and concise way taking account of the time pressures facing its clients.
Sparks for Innovation
- The innovative and strategic focus of PIU services provides procurement leaders with an invaluable resource for new thinking and concepts, as they face increasing demands to deliver tangible benefits to the wider business.
