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News-Ticker 02/2024
We would like to introduce you to our new NEWS TWITTER. Every month you'll receive 5-10 links to the most exciting news, stories, disruptions, developments, etc. around Agile, Supply Chain, Leadership, Ecosystems, ..
Enerkem boosts their procurement process with Lean Agile Procurement for the EcoPlanta project
Learn how Enerkem, an innovative leader of the clean tech, sourced a strategic engineering partner in less than 3 months for deploying their technology at the heart of EcoPlanta, which will produce biomethanol and circular methanol from non-recyclable waste.
News-Ticker 01/2024
We would like to introduce you to our new NEWS TWITTER. Every month you'll receive 5-10 links to the most exciting news, stories, disruptions, developments, etc. around Agile, Supply Chain, Leadership, Ecosystems, ..
Trust-Based Development of the COVID-19 Vaccine
Find out why BioNtech, Pfizer and Fogun chose to work together in a trust-based way, rather than what you might expect from a contract. Tim Cummins, President of the WorldCC, along with Ugur Sahin, CEO of BioNtech, shared this story at the World Agility Forum 2024, co-hosted by the LAP Alliance this year.
Awarded success Story with the Dunedin City Council
The Dunedin City Council won an award for Outstanding Cooperation & Collaboration at the 2023 World Commerce and Contracting (Asia Pacific) Innovation and Excellence Awards – Congratulations to both the team and the new partner!
Current Trends & Crisis in Procurement - How to integrate this with Lean-Agile Procurement
The world has become very unpredictable (supply chain disruptions, inflation, ..), new trends arrive every other day (ESG, circular economy, sustainability, diversity, ..) while the demand in procurement is increasing. So how to integrate all this, and do we need to adapt anything in Lean-Agile Procurement?
Roche - The Agile Journey of Roche Procurement
Most have heard of ‘Agile’ by now and the theory sounds promising - to setup your organisation, team and ways of working to be ready to respond and innovate quickly in a world that is changing at an unprecedented speed. In Procurement and Contracting, the Agile success stories that come from IT and App building can feel remote and hard to translate to our world. In Roche, these pressures sit alongside the need to constantly bring ‘value beyond savings’ from suppliers and contracting. Join Colm Diamond and Mirko Kleiner spoke at the European Summit 2022 of the WorldCC about Roche’s journey on how the Procurement and Contracts function are changing their structure, how they think and how they work fundamentally to try to get Agile to work for them and how it’s going in reality.
Agile Contracting in Banking using Lean-Agile Procurement
In this case story, Rivo Head of Procurement at Candriam shares how Lean-Agile Procurement was used to procure a complex solution in banking, in the matter of weeks not years.
Agile Contracts - The only Template you’ll ever need!
Agile collaboration became the new normal to deal with the ever-changing demands of today’s business. Often this collaboration isn’t supported enough with an as agile contract.
Scaling Agile beyond Companies
In this article you’ll learn why Tesla never had a chip shortage, how you could select new strategic partners in DAYS instead of Months and so how to start scaling agile beyond your company with your preferred Agile Framework and Lean-Agile Procurement.
Zalando - How to introduce Procurement into an Agile Culture?
The COVID-19 crisis has emphasised the importance of new -more agile- approaches in procurement. But is it just another buzzword, or has it become reality?!-Learn from Zalando - How to introduce Procurement into an Agile Culture?
AGCO Int. - How Collaboration with Vendors / Competitors increases Innovation
The COVID-19 crisis has emphasised the importance of new -more agile- approaches in procurement. But is it just another buzzword, or has it become reality?!-Learn from AGCO Int. - How Collaboration with Vendors / Competitors has increased their Innovation.
AGILE BUDGETS. AGILE CONTRACTS. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN FINANCIAL NEED MEETS MARKET REALITY?
Market and business uncertainty has created an unprecedented need for agile and adaptable systems and processes. Finance is at the forefront, struggling to set and manage budgets, forecasts and cash flow in today’s unpredictable conditions. Learn from our Panalists Tim Cummins, Rikard Olson & Mirko Kleiner
SwissCasinos - Is it possible to source an ERP System in just 4 Weeks?
The COVID-19 crisis has emphasised the importance of new -more agile- approaches in procurement. But is it just another buzzword, or has it become reality?!-Learn from Daniel how SwissCasinos sourced an ERP System in just 4 !-This story was recently awarded as the Winner of the World Procurement Awards 2020!
APA Group - How Agile is changing an Industry & Lives!
Henriette introduced us in how applying Agile is currently changing a whole Industry and also her Live!-In other words she’s talking us trough how Lean Agile Procurement has helped to shape significant change in individuals, teams, organisations and supply chains within the energy industry.
6 Success Stories - Agile in Procurement just Talk or Reality?!
The COVID-19 crisis has emphasised the importance of new -more agile- approaches in procurement. But is it just another buzzword, or has it become reality?!-Learn from 6 cases all around the world how agile in procurement impacted their business positively. One of the stories just won the World Procurement Award 2020!
AirFrance KLM - How to Outsource a Critical Project with Lean-Agile Procurement
With a challenging six-month time frame, Air France looked to a new innovative approach to procuring the right team for the job.
Air France KLM Cargo Operations needed to improve the efficiency and productivity of its door-to-door cargo. Time is essential in freight and any delay or break in the chain would lead to product waste and unhappy customers. It was critical that a new system was created to improve the efficiency.
A new booking system was required within six months, how were Air France going to assemble a team that worked cohesively and remotely, thought innovatively, understood the cargo industry, and produce the product within the challenging time frame.
There are NO Agile Contracts!
Similar as there are no unicorns, even no cats with one :-), there also don’t exist agile contracts!-In my opinion we not just need get rid off this term, we also need to rethink how we come to an agreement.
In this blog post you’ll find out why and learn alternatives to overcome the dilemma of Business Agility and handling the legal aspects with your partners.
Big Room Event - How to co-create an Agile Contract in less than 2 days with 3 parties simultaneously
The fascination with Lean-Agile Procurement lies definitely in the big room events, where we gather customer needs with 100+ end users or co-create a Lean-Agile Agreement (Contracts) with e.g. 3 parties each or even let them form alliances as they go. People that hear that often think this isn’t possible, it sounds like magic because up till now it took us months to just finalize a contract!-In this blog post we’d like to share with you the secret sauce and some tipps-n-tricks around it, preparation!
Agile Sourcing, how to plan for uncertain? (LAP Nuggets - Episode 2)
Have you ever wondered, why some of the strategic sourcing cases failed and others were successful?-In a series of episodes we gonna introduce you, what we’ve learned from our LAP Alliance networks’ multiple engagements and successful sourcing cases with LAP. With the LAP Nuggets we’ve furthermore developed and assembled applicable tools, that are easy to understand and will reduce your risks during strategic sourcing significantly!
In this episode we’d like to answer the question: „If we can’t plan uncertainty in strategic sourcing cases, how we can source it then either?!“