What are the key 4-6 roles (e.g. Buyer, Commodity Manager, etc …) common to all public procurement organizations that help you align the “right skills” with the “right roles”, to achieve procurement and mission outcomes? By way of context, everyone on your team need not be experts in everything and so we define roles that emphasize “groups of skills” that team members in their respective roles need to have.
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Ash Bedi
Managing Director
Public Spend Forum
Washington DC
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These sort of open-ended questions routinely seem to break down into semantics┬ádebates.┬á Rather ask what are the top 3 critical enablers of outcome excellence –however you want to define it. (please see attached article).
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Joe Sandor
Retired Professor
Michigan State University
Lecanto FL
(517) 488-8931
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-22-2018 10:32
From: Ash Bedi
Subject: Key Roles in Public Procurement
What are the key 4-6 roles (e.g. Buyer, Commodity Manager, etc …) common to all public procurement organizations that help you align the “right skills” with the “right roles”, to achieve procurement and mission outcomes?┬á By way of context, everyone on your team need not be experts in everything and so we define roles that emphasize “groups of skills” that team members in their respective roles need to have.
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Ash Bedi
Managing Director
Public Spend Forum
Washington DC
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Attachment SCMR1411_F_MeasureSCgoals.pdf
It would be great if others can provide examples of roles they have within their organizations.
Ash – in terms of common roles I’ve seen, these include:
There are of course many other roles that may be specific to the type of organization. 
Raj
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Raj Sharma
Public Spend Forum
Washington DC
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-22-2018 19:38
From: Joe Sandor
Subject: Key Roles in Public Procurement
These sort of open-ended questions routinely seem to break down into semantics┬ádebates.┬á Rather ask what are the top 3 critical enablers of outcome excellence –however you want to define it. (please see attached article).
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Joe Sandor
Retired Professor
Michigan State University
Lecanto FL
(517) 488-8931
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-22-2018 10:32
From: Ash Bedi
Subject: Key Roles in Public Procurement
What are the key 4-6 roles (e.g. Buyer, Commodity Manager, etc …) common to all public procurement organizations that help you align the “right skills” with the “right roles”, to achieve procurement and mission outcomes?┬á By way of context, everyone on your team need not be experts in everything and so we define roles that emphasize “groups of skills” that team members in their respective roles need to have.
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Ash Bedi
Managing Director
Public Spend Forum
Washington DC
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In the contract execution category, I used to hear a lot about different types of CO roles in the federal government. Terminating Contracting Officer, Administrative Contracting Officer, etc. Some of the leaders I worked under were advocates of bringing those roles back, suggesting that not every 1102 should aspire to be a “jack of all trades” procurement professional.┬á
Wonder what some of our other leaders here would have to say about that?
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Frank McNally
Director, Learning & Content Development
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-26-2018 14:59
From: Raj Sharma
Subject: Key Roles in Public Procurement
It would be great if others can provide examples of roles they have within their organizations.
Ash – in terms of common roles I’ve seen, these include:
There are of course many other roles that may be specific to the type of organization.
Raj
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Raj Sharma
Public Spend Forum
Washington DC
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-22-2018 19:38
From: Joe Sandor
Subject: Key Roles in Public Procurement
These sort of open-ended questions routinely seem to break down into semantics┬ádebates.┬á Rather ask what are the top 3 critical enablers of outcome excellence –however you want to define it. (please see attached article).
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Joe Sandor
Retired Professor
Michigan State University
Lecanto FL
(517) 488-8931
Original Message:
Sent: 03-22-2018 10:32
From: Ash Bedi
Subject: Key Roles in Public Procurement
What are the key 4-6 roles (e.g. Buyer, Commodity Manager, etc …) common to all public procurement organizations that help you align the “right skills” with the “right roles”, to achieve procurement and mission outcomes?┬á By way of context, everyone on your team need not be experts in everything and so we define roles that emphasize “groups of skills” that team members in their respective roles need to have.
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Ash Bedi
Managing Director
Public Spend Forum
Washington DC
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Larry Giunipero from Florida State and I completed a study for CAPS back in 1999 that identified several of these roles, and the skills and knowledge required at each level.  A copy of the CAPS report is attached here.  In general, most of these also apply to public procurement, although with the digital age there are also Centers of Excellence for Analytics starting to form that require specialized statistical and analysis skills.
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Rob Handfield
Bank of America Distinguished University Professor
North Carolina State University (Poole College of Management)
Raleigh NC
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-22-2018 10:32
From: Ash Bedi
Subject: Key Roles in Public Procurement
What are the key 4-6 roles (e.g. Buyer, Commodity Manager, etc …) common to all public procurement organizations that help you align the “right skills” with the “right roles”, to achieve procurement and mission outcomes?┬á By way of context, everyone on your team need not be experts in everything and so we define roles that emphasize “groups of skills” that team members in their respective roles need to have.
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Ash Bedi
Managing Director
Public Spend Forum
Washington DC
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Attachment giunipero2004.pdf
It is also of interest that although the CAPS study was completed in 2004 ((giunipero2004) it identified several key roles, and the skills and knowledge required at each level.  In general, most of these also apply to public procurement, although with the digital age there are also Centers of Excellence for Analytics starting to form that require specialized statistical and analysis skills.  Some of the major insights include the following:
All in all, not much has changed in the past 15 years!┬á We appear to be very much still on this journey, although there are certainly a lot of new buzzwords around such as “cognitive”, “AI”, and “Internet of Things”.┬á ┬áBut the fundamentals of solid procurement remain the same.
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Rob Handfield
Bank of America Distinguished University Professor
North Carolina State University (Poole College of Management)
Raleigh NC
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-10-2018 08:02
From: Rob Handfield
Subject: Key Roles in Public Procurement
Larry Giunipero from Florida State and I completed a study for CAPS back in 1999 that identified several of these roles, and the skills and knowledge required at each level.  A copy of the CAPS report is attached here.  In general, most of these also apply to public procurement, although with the digital age there are also Centers of Excellence for Analytics starting to form that require specialized statistical and analysis skills.
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Rob Handfield
Bank of America Distinguished University Professor
North Carolina State University (Poole College of Management)
Raleigh NC
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-22-2018 10:32
From: Ash Bedi
Subject: Key Roles in Public Procurement
What are the key 4-6 roles (e.g. Buyer, Commodity Manager, etc …) common to all public procurement organizations that help you align the “right skills” with the “right roles”, to achieve procurement and mission outcomes?┬á By way of context, everyone on your team need not be experts in everything and so we define roles that emphasize “groups of skills” that team members in their respective roles need to have.
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Ash Bedi
Managing Director
Public Spend Forum
Washington DC
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Thanks for the report Rob.┬á Interestingly, I have also sketched out a role grouping named “CORE PROCUREMENT ANALYSIS MGMT”, inclusive of the skills types you mentioned.┬á So far, I have sketched out 5 distinct “role groupings”.┬á Looking forward to reading the report you sent (and happy to run past you a summary of the role groupings aligned with skills that I am pulling together).┬á Thanks again!
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Ash Bedi
Managing Director
Public Spend Forum
Washington DC
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-10-2018 08:02
From: Rob Handfield
Subject: Key Roles in Public Procurement
Larry Giunipero from Florida State and I completed a study for CAPS back in 1999 that identified several of these roles, and the skills and knowledge required at each level.  A copy of the CAPS report is attached here.  In general, most of these also apply to public procurement, although with the digital age there are also Centers of Excellence for Analytics starting to form that require specialized statistical and analysis skills.
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Rob Handfield
Bank of America Distinguished University Professor
North Carolina State University (Poole College of Management)
Raleigh NC
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-22-2018 10:32
From: Ash Bedi
Subject: Key Roles in Public Procurement
What are the key 4-6 roles (e.g. Buyer, Commodity Manager, etc …) common to all public procurement organizations that help you align the “right skills” with the “right roles”, to achieve procurement and mission outcomes?┬á By way of context, everyone on your team need not be experts in everything and so we define roles that emphasize “groups of skills” that team members in their respective roles need to have.
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Ash Bedi
Managing Director
Public Spend Forum
Washington DC
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