Why is Karisma specialised in Purchasing and Procurement ?
In our fast moving and competitive world, companies need more than ever business minded, results oriented people who are able to anticipate future tendencies and trends and have the necessary skills to develop purchasing policies in line with the global strategy and business goals of the company.
Purchasing today is moving fast…and plays a totally different role than it did even 10 years ago. The Human Resource requirements have clearly changed. The new roles and responsibilities of Purchasing today require different profiles with different skills.
We know through many years of experience from our various relationships and our hands on experience in purchasing that the success of your purchasing organisation depend very much on the people who manage it.
Purchasing objectives are directly in line with the global strategy of companies in terms of quality, innovation, services, financial results, customer and shareholder satisfaction. Purchasing increasingly holds the attention of executive boards’ attention and is an integral part of companies’ global strategy.
People in purchasing target different goals, play different roles, endorse different responsibilities . They buy to sell and no longer to produce. As a consequence, different skills, abilities and personal characteristics are needed.
In the past, Purchasing was only about cost out, bottom line, reducing cost.
Today, whilst cost out has still enormous potential in multinationals, a new objective is to use purchasing and suppliers pro-actively to drive forward top line growth through product innovation and ‘speed-to-market’, in order to answer changing consumers needs.
Certain benchmark Multinationals have transformed their purchasing organisations so as to optimise all ‘cost out’ and ‘value in’ opportunities… but in many cases, there is still enormous potential to be exploited and a huge gap to be filled in terms of the resources that are allocated to the procurement organisation.
Purchasing requires high level, quick thinking, ‘street wise’ people, to master, implement and use new types of tools and processes. But more than ever, purchasing requires today business-minded people who have a deep understanding of what is the real value added of purchasing and its potential impact on company performance and shareholder value.
Our expertise in purchasing allows us to understand these strategic and operational roles and these new needs in terms of human resources.
