In one of the more comprehensive reviews ever published about procurement training, Sourcing Innovation (SI) \u2013 one of the leading procurement-related sites for going on a decade \u2013 recently published a multi-part review of the \u201cProcurement KPI\u2019s & Business Acumen\u201d online course series from the Next Level Purchasing Association.\u00a0 In the review, SI editor Dr. Michael Lamoureux wrote:<\/p>\n
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\u201cIn SI\u2019s opinion,\u00a0[the series]\u00a0delivers one of the key lessons a Procurement department needs to master to be seen as strategically contributing to the organization given the current view of Procurement\u2019s role, does a great job of defining business acumen and relating it to a function Procurement should understand well (Sales), and does a deft job of indicating how properly defined synergistic KPIs can generate compound effects and deliver greater results than non-synergistic KPIs. But more importantly\u2026it develops and presents a basic, generic, framework that ties together the key synergistic KPIs for any Procurement organization that can be used by any Procurement Professional. This framework, which is beautiful in its simplicity, is the most innovative encapsulation of a core idea that I\u2019ve seen from a purchasing organization, analyst firm, or consulting organization in years!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In one of the more comprehensive reviews ever published about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"\n