KATHLEEN ANNE

HARMESTON FCIPS

C-Suite Director and Coach, Non-Executive Director, Business Advisor & Fractional Interim

Tag: business

  • Has The Quality of Collaboration In Procurement Improved As A Result Of Remote Working?
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    Has The Quality of Collaboration In Procurement Improved As A Result Of Remote Working?

    Kathleen Harmeston

    I define collaboration as high quality cross functional interactions with suppliers, budgetholders and procurement to achieve more than what you would within silo working.Remote collaboration is nothing new. Pre-pandemic many global organisations excelled inremote cross-functional collaboration due to the adoption of robust planning across manytime zones, a percentage of face-to-face meetings planned well in advance,…

  • Procurement’s Role In Protecting and Safeguarding Supply Chains – Ethical Sourcing 
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    Procurement’s Role In Protecting and Safeguarding Supply Chains – Ethical Sourcing 

    Kathleen Harmeston

    What Makes A Sourcing Strategy Ethical?  Ethical sourcing is being able to demonstrate that your sources of supply, at every step in the supply chain, are protected and free from unhygienic, unacceptable, unsafe, or exploitative working conditions. Examples of this would be fair wages for staff,  no evidence of a fear or violence in the…