{"id":2783,"date":"2009-11-02T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2009\/11\/02\/tip-off-to-a-tactical-procurement-mindset\/"},"modified":"2021-07-19T06:35:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T10:35:44","slug":"tip-off-to-a-tactical-procurement-mindset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/tip-off-to-a-tactical-procurement-mindset\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip-off To A Tactical Procurement Mindset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that you have enjoyed the article \u201cPurchasing Managers\u2019 Worst KPI Mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>This article was inspired by a discussion I read on the Strategic Sourcing &amp; Procurement Group on LinkedIn. That discussion was started by a procurement manager who wanted to know what key performance indicators that others used.<\/p>\n<p>What followed was an absolute barrage of examples of KPI\u2019s. Some were good. Some were\u2026well, let\u2019s just say that they showed that the individual was stuck in a tactical mindset.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main points of the \u201cworst mistakes\u201d article was that not every performance indicator is a key performance indicator. When a senior executive wants to learn what the procurement team considers to be a key performance indicator and the procurement leader replies with performance indicators that are like some of the worst from the LinkedIn discussion, it becomes immediately evident that the procurement department is stuck in tactical mode.<\/p>\n<p>When the word \u201ckey\u201d (or the letter \u201cK\u201d) is used to discuss performance indicators, what the senior executive is looking for is integration \u2013 some type of connection between what the procurement department is doing and what the organization as a whole is trying to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>Providing a mere performance indicator when asked for a key performance indicator is a tip-off that the mindset in procurement is too tactical. 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