PP Awards 2008
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Welcome to the 2nd Annual CIPS Australia Procurement Professional Awards 2008. You will find useful information and tips below, and we hope to see your entries coming in soon.
- Introduction - A new way to demonstrate best practice
- 2008 Award Categories
- Tips on Entering - from Chair of Judges - Jim McGuire MCIPS
- Benefits of entering & winning AND How to Enter
- Sponsors
- Entry Form (PDF)
- Entry Form (Word)
- Full Early Bird release brochure for download
- Sample Winning Entries from 2007
A new way to demonstrate best practice
Following the success of our inaugural Procurement Professional Awards programme last year, we are delighted to be launching the Procurement Professional Awards for 2008 earlier to allow for even more entries. I am sure that these awards will build their successful base and grow substantially in future years – as the prestigious CIPS Supply Management Awards have in the UK over the last ten years.
This awards programme successfully highlights the valuable contribution that our profession is making to organisations throughout the private and public sector. This recognition is not only beneficial to the confidence and career progression of individuals working in the profession, but also for their organisations and stakeholders as it will highlight the direct and wide ranging benefits of the procurement contribution. This awards programme is a modern way to demonstrate best practice for everyone’s benefit.
Procurement may be the fastest growing profession in business, but its individual practitioners rarely promote their hard-earned achievements or accept due recognition. It is still not really part of our procurement ‘culture.’
The 2nd Annual CIPS Australia Procurement Professional Awards are a step in the right direction towards correcting this imbalance. The judging criteria for the awards will recognise the broad range of skill areas in which procurement professionals excel - including project management, negotiation, supplier management, cost reduction, process improvement, individual initiative and teamwork. In a word it will recognise contribution.
The award categories themselves highlight the surprisingly wide range of vital activities that are undertaken within organisations by procurement professionals, from maintaining supplier partnerships to process improvement and from cross-functional initiatives to developing their own professionalism – all built upon the management of the organisation’s external resource base.
This call for entries is an interim release, with the full printed version due out in early June. Please do not be shy. Enter the awards by 15 August 2008, for the benefit of your stakeholders and your organisation – not just yourself.
Show us a new way to demonstrate best practice. Both the new CIPS CEO, Simon Sperryn, and I look forward to seeing you at the Awards dinner.
We look forward to celebrating the successes that will doubtless be richly deserved.
Jonathan Dutton MCIPS
Managing Director
CIPS Australia
2008 Award Categories
Best Example of Socially Responsible Procurement
This category encompasses externally-focused social, ethical, sustainable, environmental and community initiatives in a supply chain context. The judges will be looking specifically at the role a procurement or supply management function has played in safeguarding or enhancing an organisation’s reputation and brand values in an SRP context - throughout the supply chain.
Best Cross-Functional Teamwork Project
Entries in this category should demonstrate how a procurement or supply management team has worked effectively with another team or business unit from the same organisation to achieve a mutual goal.
Best People Development Initiative
This category covers training or development programmes that have substantially raised the understanding and/or skills of the procurement or supply management team, and helped to deliver real improvements in performance.
Best Process Improvement Initiative
Entries in this category should focus on how procurement or supply management processes have been upgraded or changed, and the resulting improvements from adopting them.
Best Supplier Partnership
This category requires a joint entry by the procurement team and their supplier. The entry should primarily explain how the two organisations have worked together and what the benefits have occurred for both parties.
Most Improved Procurement Operation
Judges will be looking for evidence of success from a procurement function that has undergone a substantial improvement. This could be an entirely new department where little or no professional procurement has previously existed; alternatively it could be an established team undergoing radical change.
Young Procurement Professional of the Year
Open to those aged 30 or under when the project or initiative was started, the judges will look for evidence of achievement that is significant and beyond what is normally expected from managers of this age and experience. The impact upon the organisation is more likely to be at an operational or functional rather than strategic level. The judges will also look for evidence of further potential, evidence of further study of procurement or commitment to the subject as well as their wider contribution to their team. Nominations may be submitted by an organisation or an individual on behalf of themselves or another person, with their prior permission.
The CIPS Leadership Award
A special award presented by CIPS Australia to the organisation or person who has offered an exceptional contribution to the profession over the year. It may be presented to one of the category winners, or to a deserving person or organisation that has made a special contribution to the profession or demonstrated outstanding leadership of thought or action.
Tips on Entering - from Chair of Judges - Jim McGuire MCIPS
Jim McGuire, Chair of Judges, offers some tips on how to improve your chances of winning
It is an honour to again be chairing the judging panel for The 2nd Annual CIPS Australia Procurement Professional Awards. I am looking forward to reading the numerous high-quality entries which your organisations will undoubtedly be submitting. I’d like to take this opportunity to provide you with some tips that should help you prepare your entries for the 2008 Awards. While I cannot guarantee that these tips will ensure success, I am certain that, if followed, they will significantly increase your chances!
Jim McGuire MCIPS
Chair of Judges
Click here to read the Tips on Entering
Benefits of entering & winning AND How to Enter
Click here to read about the benefits of entering and How to Enter.
Sponsors
Sponsors of the Awards will be revealed shortly. Some sponsor spots are still available, to find out more call Andrew Wynn at BTTB on +61 7 5502 7326, and secure your sponsorship today.
Sample winning entries from 2007
BAE Systems - Submission Best People Development Initiative 2007
Department of Treasury & Finance WA - Submission for Best Process Improvement Initiative
IAG & Blue Star Print Group - Submission for Best Supplier Partnership
Special Achievement Award Winners.
Although the University of Sydney didn't win a category award, they did receive a Special Achievement Award for recognition of the procurement change management effort across a range of award categories. Their submissions for Best Process Improvement Initiative and Best Cross-Functional Teamwork Project are attached.
