KATHLEEN HARMESTON
P2P STRATEGIES
“ For me , the old adage of ‘ build it and they will come ’ applies . If you have simple , effective systems and practices in place then people will engage with procurement organically ”
KATHLEEN HARMESTON SUPPLY CHAIN AND PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST AND CIPS FELLOW
• 41 % say they find adoption of systems difficult
• 47 % say they are vulnerable to disruption , upstream costs , and labour costs
• 43 % say they don ’ t have visibility of their supply chains down to tier four
And so , with this in mind , Kathleen Harmeston , supply chain and procurement specialist and CIPS Fellow explains that even if the function has a really good procure-to-pay ( P2P ) system on board , but it is not adequately integrated
KATHLEEN HARMESTON
TITLE : NED AND BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION ADVISOR
INDUSTRY : SUPPLY CHAIN AND PROCUREMENT
A supply chain and procurement specialist , Harmeston has 30 years of experience in consulting and operating at executive level in the space both in the public and private sector . Her focus has been on large scale transformation and cost optimisation projects , organisation design , and her specialism is supply relationship management .
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