Oscar Ommert MSc is a successful Procurement Practitioner, Manager and Consultant. His focus is on Performance Improvement, in which he is influenced by his experience in Post-M&A and Corporate Recovery situations His entrepreneurial spirit led him to relocate from The Netherlands to the San Francisco Bay Area, arriving there in early 2020. In his quest to drive ultimate procurement performance, this blog is a record of his adventure and an invitation to respond, share, connect and collaborate.
Oscar is available to achieve similar results for your organization in a permanent position. Projects, gigs and consulting are also possible, either in an hourly rate, a fixed-fee or no-cure-no-pay construction.
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- 9% of work time spent on switching between applications!I’ve seen it happen, but a study featured in Harvard Business Review (HBR) has once again shown that the toggling tax is real. It could even be more in procurement teams that are interacting with suppliers through several corporate firewalls. What would be the effect on your P&L if that % was significantly reduced. What…
- Thanks to Microsoft, RPA is going mainstream.
Phil Fersht of HFS Research posted an interesting development in RPA’s technology adoption. https://www.horsesforsources.com/rpa-is-alive_030321 From my perspective; for a technologies to become widely used (like e-mail and smartphones) they must be; 1. easy to use, 2. offer a high value to cost ratio and 3. must have an enabler that can scale them. RPA’s primary… - Smarter Together: It’s Procurement and Finance’s Time to LeadOver the last week I’ve attended Sourcing Industry Groups Global Executive Summit. The Keynote was by Coupa’s CFO Todd Ford on “Smarter Together: It’s Procurement and Finance’s Time to Lead”.In it Todd shared a couple CFO insights on interdepartmental collaboration that are core to Procurement Performance Improvement. First: over 60% of CPO’s report into the…