Boost Your SAFe Implementation with Lean-Agile Procurement (LAP Alliance Whitepaper)
LAP Alliance Whitepaper | September 2025
By Dan Murphy, Mirko Kleiner, Simon Reindl
Unleashing Speed, Flow,
and Value-Creation at Scale.
By integrating Lean-Agile Procurement (LAP) into the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), procurement evolves from a gatekeeping function into an embedded organisational capability. Agile Teams, Agile Release Trains (ARTs), and Solutions take end-to-end responsibility for sourcing, contracting, and partner management, supported by an Agile Procurement Platform Team that provides tools, insights, enablement, and guardrails.
Leading companies such as Roche1 or Haier1 have already applied these principles.
This model delivers:
Up to 800% faster sourcing for strategic vendors / partners
Improved commercial outcomes by up to 80%
Long-term co-innovation partnerships that fuel competitive advantage
Procurement cycles aligned to PI Planning cadences and Value Stream delivery
The result is a scalable, compliant, and innovation-friendly procurement model that matches the pace of modern delivery—unlocking both speed and strategic value.
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This LAP Alliance Whitepaper is inline with other publications such as:
The future of Procurement: From Function to Capability - A survival Guide for Leader that want to transform their procurement organization (co-published with WorldCC)
Complex sourcing with faster and better outcomes - Lean Agile Procurement (LAP) is a rapid and highly collaborative sourcing methodology. Practitioners are benefiting from enhanced outcomes (co-published with CIPS)
Lean-Agile Procurement Competency - Knowledge Paper for SAFe (co-published with ScaledAgile)
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