Client & Industry Context Region & scale (2022). A medium-sized industrial manufacturer in the Gulf operated 16 factories and worked with ~2,000 active suppliers. Core systems included SAP ERP for procurement and inventory management and OpenText Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) for accounts payable (AP). Day-to-day procurement work, however, still relied heavily on email and spreadsheets, particularly for RFx exchanges, vendor communications, and document trails outside SAP/VIM. Strate [...]
Client & Industry Context Region & scale (2022). A medium-sized industrial manufacturer in the Gulf operated 16 factories and worked with ~2,000 active suppliers. Core systems included SAP ERP for procurement and inventory management and OpenText Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) for accounts payable (AP). Day-to-day procurement work, however, still relied heavily on email and spreadsheets, particularly for RFx exchanges, vendor communication [...]
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If your programme meetings feel like status theatre, you’re not alone. Executives across the EU and MENA are coordinating multi-vendor roadmaps, AI pilots, ERP upgrades and regulatory change — yet progress stalls because decisions don’t get made fast enough. A weekly cadence that unblocks delivery fixes this by turning updates into action: what ch [...]
If your programme meetings feel like status theatre, you’re not alone. Executives across the EU and MENA are coordinating multi-vendor roadmaps, AI pilots, ERP upgrades and regulatory change — yet progress stalls because decisions don’t get made fas [...]
PMOs have never been more visible — or more questioned. Boards want outcomes, not slide packs. Executives in the EU and MENA are juggling multi-vendor programmes, AI pilots, ERP upgrades, and regulatory change. Yet many PMOs still act like traffic police: collecting status, colouring RAGs, producing reports. The result? Slow decisions, weak benefi [...]
PMOs have never been more visible — or more questioned. Boards want outcomes, not slide packs. Executives in the EU and MENA are juggling multi-vendor programmes, AI pilots, ERP upgrades, and regulatory change. Yet many PMOs still act like traffic p [...]
