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New Victorian ChairAfter exactly one year in the role, Tania Seary, Managing Director of The Faculty will step down as founding Chair of the CIPSA Victorian/Tasmanian region at the end of September. Tania said, “I greatly enjoyed setting up the first CIPSA regional committee for VIC/TAS, building a superb team on the regional committee and developing the VIC/TAS business plan. But I feel the time is now right to step down and allow someone else to take forward the Victorian/Tasmania region to the next stage”. CIPSA MD, Jonathan Dutton said, “we are grateful to Tania for doing a great job and thank her for founding the VIC/TAS committee, developing a business plan, driving forward an innovative events programme and starting some excellent work on the professional agenda”. Vice Chair, Malcolm Shimmins, Procurement Manager at Jones Lang La Salle has accepted the position of chair with effect from 1st October 2006. A new vice chair will be appointed in due course. |
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Recruitment is BuoyantFurther signs of a buoyant recruitment market within the procurement profession in Victoria were evident during July. CIPSA was invited to speak to two significant events hosted by different procurement agencies that have specialist procurement teams – Hudson and Michael Page. CIPSA Managing Director, Jonathan Dutton, spoke to a significant Hudson audience of procurement professionals and HR managers and outlined the importance of professional standards in procurement – currently the fastest growing profession in business and future skills required of the profession. The private Michael Page event is on 23rd August. On Saturday, 8 July 2006alone there were six major job advertisements for senior procurement positions in The Age newspaper Section One. In fact, CIPSA has been monitoring all national newspapers and major regional newspapers that have advertisements for significant roles in the profession. This monitoring research is tracking the buoyancy of the recruitment market for procurement professionals and the results of the research will be published soon and fed into a seminar session at the annual conference in Melbourne on 18th October. The seminar will address the difficulty of recruiting and retaining high quality procurement professionals within the current market environment. The seminar will feature a ‘talk show’ type debate with a panel of experts comprising a leading procurement manager, recruitment agency, HR consultancy and a “head hunter” to discuss the issues involved. In addition to Hudson and Michael Page, other recruitment agencies with specialist procurement teams active in Melbourne include Hayes, Tanner Menzies, BOMweb and ProcureNet. |
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Inaugural Hobart Event
Hobart was host to the first CIPSA networking event in Tasmania on July 27th. It was a great day for sweet tooths and procurement professionals alike. The event, kindly hosted by Cadbury’s Bob McCreadie was well received. 85% of the local CIPSA members came along to share lunch, a tour of the chocolate factory and to hear Bob speak about procuring services, spares and equipment for a complex manufacturing environment. After taking in the sights and smells of the Cadbury chocolate factory, participants left with a show bag of treats to remind them of their day. |
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PACCER Applies for AccreditationThe Victorian Government Procurement Board’s training program, PACCER, has formally applied for accreditation as a pathway towards MCIPS. PACCER have undergone some substantial redevelopment over the last year and the Victorian Finance Minister, Hon. John Lenders MP, relaunched the new program on 17th February 2006. The accreditation process is ongoing presently and a decision is expected on accreditation of PACCER in due course. |
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Happy 1st BirthdayThe CIPSA Victorian Regional Committee is officially one year old during September. The Committee plan to celebrate with a first birthday party. Full details will be revealed nearer the time … |
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APICS ConferenceThe APICS annual conference is on 21 and 22 August at the Crown Towers Hotel in Melbourne. Full details are available from www.apics.org.au |
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Annual Conference Speaker Line Up RevealedA panel of world-class keynote speakers are to address the second CIPSA annual conference on 17 and 18 October 2006 in Melbourne. From the UK…
From Amsterdam…
From Sydney…
Plus more…. In additional to the nine keynote presentations under the theme of innovation and procurement, the conference will also include 20 seminars on hot topics relevant to the modern practitioner’s day-to-day job. The invitation-only CPO Masterclass stream will take place on day one. The conference dinner on 17 October will feature awards for the winners of the CIPSA National Essay Competition and the Queensland Scholarship Prize as well as after dinner speaker, Jeff Kennett. Further details can be found at: www.cipsaconferences.com.au or members can book now by calling 07 5529 3892. |
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Third Regional Chairs’ MeetingThe Chairs for each of the CIPSA Regional Committees will meet again for an all-day business meeting on 16 August 2006 at the CIPSA offices in Melbourne. The agenda will include a thorough update on all CIPSA activities, updating the regional business plans, regional event programs and detailed coordination of all work on the professional agenda within each region. A list of the top ten regional issues facing procurement today will be compiled – consolidating the top ten issues identified by each region. The marking scheme for the CIPSA National Essay Competition and the selection process for the Queensland Scholarship Prize will also be discussed. Details of all items in the agenda will be revealed to members in the coming months. Members with suggestions for topics to be addressed by the Regional Chairs meeting are free to contact their Regional Chair at any time directly through info@cipsa.com.au |
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CIPSA National Essay Competition closes 31 AugustThe closing date for entries for the CIPSA National Essay Competition, sponsored by CQU and Curtin Business School, is 31 August 2006. Entrants stand to win $1,000 in each region with the national winner picking up a further $1,000 prize and all expenses paid trip to the second annual CIPSA conference in Melbourne on 17 18 October 2006. Full details of the essay competition are attached in PDF. |
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The Knowledge Club 3CIPSA is pleased to announce that David Freeman has been elected to the RoW seat on the international CIPS Council-the growing body of CIPS worldwide. David is the Strategic Sourcing Manager at Telstra Clear Ltd in New Zealand. A full profile on David and the CIPS council will feature in the next issue of PP magazine. |
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A Practical Guide to Ethics and Probity in Procurement PracticesThe Victorian Regional Committee are running a workstream to define a set of practical guidelines, covering procurement ethics and best practice probity for day-to-day use by practitioners in all segments of the profession. The work incorporates the standard CIPSA code of ethics (available on the CIPSA website: www.cips.org) and the Commonwealth Procurement Guidelines. Members with a point of view or suggestions on guidance for day-to-day implementation of a working guide to ethics and probity in procurement should contact the Victorian regional committee directly through info@cipsa.com.au |
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Members Renew in DrovesTotal CIPSA membership numbers exceeded 2,000 paid members for the first time in early June 2006. However, 81% of CIPSA members’ subscriptions are due for renewal during June, July and August. At the time of writing over 50% of the members due for renewal had already renewed their membership early. The current “firm decline” rate of only 1.9% is exceedingly low by membership organisation standards. A renewal campaign is currently in place to remind members who have not yet renewed to do so by 31 August. All members are requested to renew promptly to avoid missing the extraordinary range of member benefits at CIPSA. Members can renew any time simply by calling the team in the CIPSA office on 1300 765 142. |
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SMART 2007 Call for PapersCIPSA is again endorsing the SMART Supply Chain Conference, held by biannually in Darling Harbour Conference Centre, Sydney. SMART 2007 is to be held between 20 and 21 June 2007, and falls in the midst of an extensive CIPSA conferencing program to be hosted in each state capital as well as Canberra throughout the 2007 season The call for papers for SMART 2007 will be released in August. Full details can be found at: www.smartconference.com.au |
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Magic and LogicIn collaboration with the leading associations for advertising agencies and marketing practitioners (the IPA and ISPA), CIPS has published a new paper in the UK ‘Magic and Logic: Redefining Sustainable Business Practices for Advertising Agencies, Marketing and Procurement’. The paper describes how procurement and marketing can work together for a ‘win win’ situation. The paper can be accessed at: www.magicandlogic.co.uk CIPSA has worked closely with the Advertising Federation of Australia (AFA) over the last year to drive forward similar developments in the Australian market. In addition, the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI) presented at the ‘How Do We Measure Up?’ conference on performance measurement in Melbourne on 29 June. An article by the AFA is planned for the next Procurement Professional magazine: PP9, due out 17th October as the conference issue. |
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The Corporate Award 5 and 6Programs 5 and 6 are now being finalised for The Corporate Award – the applied learning process leading to MCIPS. Both programs are open courses in Melbourne and Sydney/Brisbane respectively. These courses are expected to start in late September and just a few places are still available on either course. Program 3 and 4, for Parmalat and Norske Skog, both started in May. The original programs 1 and 2 for Australia Post, BHP Billiton, Coles Myer and Telstra, come to a conclusion in August after 17 months. 29 delegates from programs 1 and 2 are expected to graduate imminently. Final marks are still awaited prior to a graduation dinner being arranged for late August. Should the delegates from Corporate Award programs 1 and 2 be successful, the total number of full members MCIPS in Australia will exceed 130. |
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International Federation of Purchasing and Supply ManagementKen James, CEO of CIPS, was appointed President of IFPSM early in 2006 for a two-year period. The recent IFPSM Board meeting in Minneapolis, USA reached agreements on a new business plan and key priorities for their programme of work for 2006 and 2007. In March 2007, CIPS will be organising and hosting a major knowledge-sharing event for IFPSM in the UK. Representatives from each of the 42 professional body members of IFPSM are expected to attend. The event will run alongside the IPSERA conference, which CIPS UK are also helping to organise. It is possible that the next event in March 2008 will be held in Perth, WA and hosted by CIPSA. |
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