Procurement has come a long way from its traditional focus on price and process efficiency. As businesses face unrelenting market volatility, shifting trade dynamics and accelerating technological change, Chief Procurement Officers( CPOs) are being asked not only to contain cost but to build resilient, digitally fluent and future-ready organisations.
For Proxima’ s CPO report, it sat down with leading CPOs from around the world to discuss the function. Amongst those were – Stefan Grunwald, CPO at Henry Schein; Nina Bomberg, CPO at Hamburger Energiewerke; and Tomas Veit, CEO / CPO at Asahi Global Procurement.
The trio shared how they are reimagining procurement for the decade ahead. Their insights reveal a function rapidly embracing AI, redefining value and putting resilience and capability growth at the heart of its evolution.
90 March 2026