NZ Region
Welcome to the New Zealand Region Page
| New Zealand Regional Chair: | David Freeman FCIPS |
| New Zealand Regional Vice Chair (Wellington): | Peter Cooper MCIPS |
| New Zealand Regional Vice Chair (Auckland): | Chris Morgan |
| Contact Email: | newzealand@cipsa.com.au |
| CLICK HERE FOR NEW ZEALAND EVENTS | nzevents@cipsa.com.au |
Latest New Zealand News
Open Training 2008
The Open Training Course dates (and other Events) for New Zealand in 2008 are as follows:
Wellington
31st July - Socially Responsible Procurement (Please note new date)
25th-26th August - Supplier Evaluation & Risk Management
Auckland
22nd October - Supplier Relationship Management
Other courses you may be interested in:
4th September - Fundamentals of Contract Law (Melbourne)
22nd-23rd September - Introduction to Procurement & Improve your Procurement skills (Parramatta)
8th-9th Oct - Introduction to Procurement & Improve your Procurement Skills (Melbourne)
CIPS Wellington appoints new Vice Chair
We are very pleased to announce that Peter Cooper MCIPS, an e
xisting member of the CIPS NZ Regional Committee, has been appointed to the position of Wellington Vice Chair. This voluntary position provides vital support to the CIPS leadership in NZ toward securing our aim of building vibrant local communities of procurement practitioners as a basis for sharing knowledge, networking, and local representation of our profession.
Peter is currently the acting Asset Manager for the Ministry of Justice. He was accredited as a member of CIPS (MCIPS) in the UK in 2003. Peter has extensive procurement experience in both the public and private sectors, including helping to establish an in-house procurement capability for Accenture Consulting in the UK. On accepting the appointment, Peter said:
“I am somewhat daunted by the prospect of following in the footsteps of Babs, who has invested a huge amount of energy and passion into establishing CIPS in New Zealand. Her commitment and talents will be difficult to emulate. Having seen the tremendous difference procurement can make to the efficiency and effectiveness of organisations in NZ and offshore, I am however greatly looking forward to building on the work Babs has done to foster a community spirit, facilitate knowledge sharing, and raise awareness of procurement as a favourable career choice.
I believe the arrival of CIPS in New Zealand has been timed perfectly. The drive toward improved environmental, social and economic sustainability outcomes will only accelerate the demand for professional procurement skills here. The challenge is to attract people into a profession that most are relatively unfamiliar with. We also need to encourage those already involved in procurement to seek professional recognition of their skills and knowledge through accreditation.
Procurement has provided me with a challenging and rewarding career. I have taken tremendous enjoyment and pride in the changes I have been able to instigate and influence. I hope my involvement with CIPS will help provide similar opportunities to others.”
Peter takes over the reins from out-going Vice Chair Babs Klÿn, a founding member of the CIPS NZ Regional Committee.
Reflecting on her experience as Vice Chair, Babs said: “Having launched only in February 2007, we have achieved a great deal in a short space of time. We are running successful events in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, involving some 170 procurement professionals, and have helped to grow CIPS membership numbers from just 18 to around 300. The level of commitment from this voluntary team and sense of achievement I felt from the turnout and positive feedback at events made my decision to resign a difficult one. I am stepping down to focus my efforts on helping to establish procurement education pathways in NZ and to further develop my own subject knowledge by participating in the first Wellington CIPS Assisted Study Programme (ASP).
I have every confidence that Peter, alongside Chair David Freeman FCIPS and Auckland Vice Chair Chris Morgan, will lead the Committee to ensure CIPS efforts in NZ are effective and well-targeted. Congratulations on your appointment Peter - I wish you well and look forward to seeing you all at future CIPS events.”
One great event in two great locations
The Benefits of Modern Procurement: A Business Perspective presentation
Internationally recognised procurement expert, Richard May FCIPS (Practice Manager NZ, PMMS Consulting Group), demonstrates why investing in modern procurement capability makes good business sense.
When: Thursday 21st August, WELLINGTON
& Wednesday 27 August, AUCKLAND
What time: 5:00pm - Registration and networking
5:45pm - Speaker and discussion
7:15pm – Networking and close at 7:45pm
How much will it cost?
CIPS & Chamber members $30
Non-members $40 (includes GST).
Includes complimentary registration for your Chief Executive/Snr Management representative.
Catering: Complimentary drinks and canapés will be provided.
RSVP: Registration opens in July. For any queries contact Jayne on 021 278 8511 or email nzevents@cipsa.com.au
Download the full PDF brochure here (Wellington details on flier).
New Zealand Members - tell your colleagues to start writing now!
CIPSA National Essay Competition
Would you like the opportunity to win $2000 plus an all-expenses paid trip to the 4th Annual CIPS Australia National Procurement Conference in Melbourne, October 2008? Submit your entry into the CIPS National Essay Competition to be in with a chance!
By submitting an essay of 1500-2500 words on one of three questions by the 29th August, 2008 you could become a regional winner of the competition and win $1000.
Questions:
- How does the procurement profession avoid “green wash” and ensure truly sustainable sourcing solutions are presented to stakeholders?
- Are a socially responsible procurement policy and a low-cost country sourcing strategy mutually exclusive?
- As the generic cost of production falls, and the generic cost of freight rises, how will carbon trading affect supply chains?
The winner from each region will automatically be entered into the national competition with the chance to win a further $1000, and the aforementioned trip to the 4th Annual CIPS Australia Conference on 14 October.
The competition this year, has been generously sponsored by Curtin University.
Review: 14 May CIPS Leaders’ Forum
On 14 May some 65 CIPS members and other professionals attended the second of four premium CIPS events being held in Wellington this year - the Leaders’ Forum.
This event, generously sponsored by Fuji Xerox, enabled us to reflect on the current state of procurement in New Zealand. We were fortunate in having Jonathan Dutton MCIPS (MD CIPS Australia & New Zealand) lead the Forum.
The panellists were Kevin Brady (Controller and Auditor-General); Bruce Anderson (CE Leadership Development Centre); Suri Bartlett (MD Tenzing Ltd) and Tim Allen (Non- Trade Procurement Manager The Warehouse Ltd). Coming from different backgrounds, each panellist was able to answer Jonathan’s questions from a different perspective.
To give you a taste of how the discussion unfolded, attached are some of the questions put to the panel.
This event was generously sponsored by Fuji Xerox.
Review: Auckland Event, 28 May 2008
Presenter: Richard Lothian, Head of Sourcing for Westpac
Topic: “How your function can drive value”.
60 people attended Auckland’s latest CIPSA event on 28th May 2008 to hear Richard Lothian, Head of Sourcing for Westpac discuss “How your function can drive value”.
Richard has a legal background and for the past 12 months has been leading the transformation of sourcing at Westpac.
He challenged those who would argue over what the procurement function should be called, saying that names are of little importance to customers. What is important, he determined, is that we are agents of change and drive value for our business. That value can be delivered in numerous areas. For example, unit cost and demand management; process change; facilitating continuous improvement; participating in make-buy decisions; encouraging new competition; supplier selection; strategy development; and involvement in budget setting.
There are a number of things that impact the perception of what sourcing functions can deliver, and Richard argued that it is important that achievements are linked to stakeholder value. CFOs, for instance, are interested in margin, profit, and cash flow. The sourcing function impacts all of these and so achievements should be communicated in these terms when relaying them to a CFO. And it is important to measure and monitor the sourcing function’s contribution to demonstrate effort as well as value, and highlight leakage.
While savings are not the sourcing function’s sole competency, they are very important. It is critical therefore that measures are agreed with the finance function, so that the CFOs know how much to see at the bottom line.
All metrics need to be understood by the business, and aligned to the business strategy. Information is powerful and one of procurement’s functions is to provide management information to our stakeholders to help them manage the business. In doing so, it is important that the sourcing function ‘calls out’ achievements, and doesn’t just rely on them to speak for themselves. Communicate, communicate, communicate, your achievements!
Thanks to Richard for his insightful presentation, and to Lawson Williams for sponsoring the event.
11 April Christchurch event review
We were delighted with the turnout to the Inaugural South Island CIPS breakfast event in Christchurch on 11 April. Almost 50 attended (including senior executives and a good mix of public and private sector professionals). This far exceeded our expectations and confirmed that the procurement community is alive and well down South. Thanks to sponsor Solid Energy, we were able to accommodate everyone by holding the event at The George hotel.
Our South Island committee member, Karen Speirs of Hudson, did a fantastic job of making everyone feel welcome and begin networking. CIPS NZ Vice Chair, Babs Klyn, kicked off the formal proceedings by encouraging attendees to take advantage of CIPS training and networking opportunities now available in NZ. Guest speaker Andrew Melville, National Procurement Manager at Solid Energy, shared his organisation’s procurement journey, providing insights into how internal views on procurement had changed and the ‘pain’ that his team endured to get to where they are today. In line with advice given at Wellington’s Inspiring Positive Change Event the night before, Andrew stressed the importance of taking people with you when implementing change “it’s all about PEOPLE, PEOPLE, PEOPLE”.
Tim Woods, Group Purchasing Manager of PPCS, then introduced us to the meat industry – a video clip, not for the faint hearted!, showed just how technologically advanced the industry has become. Tim presented two case studies proving procurement is ‘not just about cost’ (also the theme of last year’s annual CIPS conference in Melbourne). Tim’s approach of having an open mind to solutions and not selecting on price alone led to significant savings and other benefits, including award winning health and safety improvements in the case of knives. Members of the audience participated in an amusing box assembly competition to demonstrate why the ‘$1 box’ isn’t the panacea it was once thought to be.
Many stayed afterwards to continue networking over coffee, which feedback suggested was long overdue for procurement professionals in the South. We have already invited procurement expert Richard May of PMMS to speak in Christchurch on 18 September and there is interest in keeping the ball rolling with more networking breakfasts – so watch this space!
10 April Wellington event review
Our first ‘premium’ event, sponsored by Starfish consulting, in Wellington was a huge success – some said it was the best event they had attended! Around 60 attendees came along to learn how to improve their capability to inspire positive change, many arriving in time to enjoy pre-event networking, refreshments, and spectacular views from room kindly provided by the Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Both speakers were very well received. The first, Hamish More, Principal of HP Consulting, covered a range of theories and models of change, arguing that none are right, but some are useful. Through examples he demonstrated the inevitability, process, reaction to and increasing rate of change. Hamish proposed that the key to successful change lies in communication and the effective transfer of ideas – just how tricky this can be was brought home through a lively audience participation exercise involving guessing the title of a song based solely on the tapping of a pen. As change is emotional and it is in our nature to resist, Hamish emphasised the importance of giving organisations and the individuals within them a meaningful reason to change.
Dr Patrick McCarthy gave a highly entertaining presentation explaining how our response to change is linked to our perspective on life. Patrick used role play to show how pessimists and optimists might react differently under the same set of circumstances. Based on theory developed by Professor Martin Seligman, Patrick taught us how to recognise pessimistic and optimistic thinking from the language people use – a useful skill for predicting how stakeholders might react to change. As slight pessimism tends to be the most realistic perspective, Dr McCarthy recommended that we adopt this perspective in our business dealings. To help us bounce back from adverse events in our personal life, he recommended learning to adopt a moderately optimistic perspective.
The feedback we received was extremely positive and we are looking forward to holding another successful event on 14 May, the Leaders’ Armchair Forum. A large turnout is expected - so mark your diary and secure your place early!
Contribute to your local news
Always considered yourself a bit of a Clark Kent? Procurement Super Hero by day, sleuth journalist by night? Well we would love to see your talent, and even if you don’t have the talent, we would still love to hear the gossip from your region. Got any news on movers and shakers, big contracts awarded, something local to your region, or country? Send in your article, or link to an article on the web and if we think its newsworthy we will publish it in the monthly newsletter. Deadlines for each newsletter is the last week of each month, so get in your submissions now. Submissions will be by-lined by agreement. Email news@cipsa.com.au with the subject line <Your Region> Newsletter Submission.
Ric Imrie visits Auckland - Feb 08
The CIPS New Zealand branch began its 2nd year with 54 people attending a presentation on the topic of talent identification, retention and development.
Ric Imrie, currently Vice President, Strategic Sourcing for Corporate Express based in Denver, Colorado gave us an interesting insight into the current challenges facing the procurement profession in the international market, how these challenges relate back to operating in the New Zealand environment and how Corporate Express attracts and retains top sourcing talent.
One of key points that came out the presentation was the importance of 'soft' skills such as motivational drivers and emotional intelligence of potential candidates and how these skills compliment the traditional sourcing skills of influencing, negotiation, programme planning and communication.
Category-specific skills knowledge was not necessarily seen an advantage. Given that a sourcing team's success is dependent on their ability to act as a catalyst for change management within their organisations, today's sourcing leaders are looking at process facilitation and strong communication.
Ric also touched on some of the new skills required for success in the global sourcing marketplace, including a brief overview of negotiation planning and the use of e-sourcing.
Ric's Presentation is available for download here..
Meet your Chair and Vice Chairs
New Zealand Chair: David Freeman FCIPS
Senior Category Manager, Westpac
David Freeman has been re-appointed NZ chair. While David has already taken great strides to increase the awareness of CIPS in NZ in a relatively short time, many challenging times still lie ahead as CIPS continues to establish itself in New Zealand. Previously employed as Strategic sourcing manager at TelstraClear Limited and with Vodafone (NZ) Limited as supply chain manager, David has also worked as group purchasing manager with First Group and head of sourcing for Société Générale. Prior to this, he was purchasing manager at Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong; head of purchasing for FINA Plc; and held management roles at British Airways, as well as an engineering role with Rolls-Royce.
Email David at newzealand@cipsa.com.au
New Zealand Vice Chair (Wellington): Peter Cooper MCIPS
Peter is the acting Asset Manager for the Ministry of Justice accountable for setting and implementing a strategy to improve the standard of property maintenance across the Ministry’s portfolio.
Peter studied for his CIPS qualification in the United Kingdom whilst helping establish an in-house procurement capability for Accenture Consulting in the UK, US, France and Germany. Peter subsequently worked for an American Procurement Service Provider ICG Commerce before returning to New Zealand in 2003.
For the last 4 years Peter has worked in the banking, property government and education sectors as an independent consultant.
Strategic procurement planning, strategic sourcing, sustainability and organisational change have been Peter’s focus since returning to New Zealand.
Email Peter at newzealand@cipsa.com.au
New Zealand Vice Chair (Auckland): Chris Morgan
Chris is the Materials Manager for Auckland District Health Board, an organisation with a turnover of NZ $1.4 billion and 9500 employees. ADHB operates 24 hours a day and is, for many of its services, the hospital of last resort for New Zealand. Chris’ responsibilities include Procurement, Inventory Management, Receiving and Distribution, as well as being a member of the organisation’s Incident Management Team.
Before joining ADHB Chris worked in the UK Aerospace and Defence sector, with roles in Procurement, Production Planning, and Operations Management.
Chris holds an Honours Degree is Aeronautical Engineering from Salford University and is currently pursuing the PDP pathway to full CIPS membership.
Email Chris at newzealand@cipsa.com.au
All in a day’s work...
Corporate Relationship Managers Amanda Lamont and Edward Rayner visited New Zealand in November and incorporated two special events in their visit. First stop was the CIPS NZ Auckland end of year function, which was a brewery tour at Lion Nathan followed by a guided beer tasting by Lion Nathan’s brewers.
The following evening CIPS hosted a table of leading New Zealand procurement professionals at the 2007 Deloitte/Management Magazine Top 200 business awards. The evening was a great opportunity for everyone to network with some of New Zealand's top businesses from both within and outisde the procurment community. Congratulations to all the winners and finalists on the night, at New Zealand’s night of nights for top businesses.
CIPS marches forward in NZ
In September, Corporate Relationship Manager, Amanda Lamont, visited a number of organisations in New Zealand to introduce and explain the CIPS Australia & NZ development activities in New Zealand and get a better understanding of the needs of the NZ procurement industry to enable CIPS to be more effective and better equipped to serve the procurement community in New Zealand.
The visit included meetings with NZ Accident Compensation Commission, NZ Post, ANZ, NZMED, Carter Holt Harvey, NZ Steel, Coca-Cola Amatil, Sanitarium, Air New Zealand, Telecom NZ, Vodafone and Auckland District Health Board.
Since the official launch of CIPS in New Zealand in June this year, significant momentum has been gathering in the procurement space. Having access to resources from a global procurement body like CIPS has meant many organisations have been able to leverage off this in promoting the value and relevance of procurement to stakeholders. For more information on CIPS activities in the New Zealand region email nzevents@cipsa.com.au or call CIPS Australia on +61 3 9629 6000.
Presentations available from Jim Tamm Events in Auckland and Wellington
CIPS recently ran two very successful events in Auckland and Wellington, featuring renowned international speaker Jim Tamm. Jim spoke on building effective collaborative relationships, and how this is a basic 'survival' skill for successful organisations. There are two presentations available from the events, the basic powerpoint presentation (413KB PDF) and a presentation with Jim Tamm Bio and presentation notes (2MB PDF). If you are having trouble downloading it, please send a request to events@cipsa.com.au to have it emailed to you.
15th June 2007. NZ PM promotes New Zealand to Aussies
CIPSA has a handful of DVDs of the PMs speech to give away, if you would like to have a copy of the DVD, please send your request to events@cipsa.com.au. Click here to read more about the PMs visit to Australia...
Delivering a Value-Based Program for NZ Local Government
Article from Procurement Professional 12. April/May 2007
What are the lessons learnt from the last decade of oversupply and undersupply in infrastructure professional and construction services in New Zealand? I would suggest the time is right to use strategic procurement to accomplish complete and value-based program delivery for local government. Click here Delivering a value-based program for NZ Local Government to read more.
