{"id":2871,"date":"2010-05-27T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2010\/05\/27\/go-right-in-the-procurement-bpo-dancefloor-is-getting-more-crowded\/"},"modified":"2021-07-27T08:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T12:22:40","slug":"go-right-in-the-procurement-bpo-dancefloor-is-getting-more-crowded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/go-right-in-the-procurement-bpo-dancefloor-is-getting-more-crowded\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Right In:  The Procurement BPO Dancefloor Is Getting More Crowded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, international package shipping giant DHL announced that it was going to begin offering outsourced procurement services. This is a bit of a surprise given that DHL\u2019s core competency is driving trucks and flying planes, but it is as equally intriguing.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>Does it actually make sense that a company involved in moving materials should also be involved in ordering, routing, and perhaps even negotiating for those same types of materials?<\/p>\n<p>Spend Matters\u2019 Jason Busch shared a thoughtful perspective recently by blogging that shippers like UPS and FedEx \u201care one step closer to the movement and management of direct materials than the great majority of the procurement BPOs,\u201d implying that this type of provider entering the procurement BPO market was indeed very logical. Jason cautions us \u201cdon\u2019t think for a minute that [DHL will] be the last\u201d of the big shippers to enter this market. I don\u2019t doubt that Jason\u2019s crystal ball may indeed be accurate. UPS has been offering procurement consulting services through UPS Supply Chain Solutions for a few years now, though it seemed to abandon the building of what was becoming an impressive whitepaper library.<\/p>\n<p>What tempered my surprise a bit was that Xerox entered the procurement outsourcing market in 2008. Though I confess to not knowing all of Xerox\u2019s capabilities, my perspective is that Xerox is further from a supply chain core competency than DHL. After all, according to this article on cfo.com, Xerox said that it got into the business simply because one of their clients \u201casked us to do <em>for<\/em> them what we\u2019d done <em>to<\/em> them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s going to be the next one crashing the procurement BPO party? 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