Reading about the projects undertaken by the winners of this year’s Procurement Leaders Awards gives a sense of just how far procurement has come in just a few years and how the function continues to evolve.

A topic touched on by all our guest speakers at the World Procurement Congress was the education of procurement professionals and what skills they will need to become the leaders of the future.

The World Procurement Congress closed today on a question and answer session with some of the leading CPOs and thinkers in procurement.

Marc Engel, CPO of consumer goods giant Unilever, took to the stage at the World Procurement Congress to talk about how he has created the ‘headroom’ in his function to allow for true strategic procurement.

Every supply disruption, according to Rick Hughes, is an opportunity. The CPO of P&G described to the World Procurement Congress how the consumer goods companies has changed and grown from past disruption.

Follow this feed throughout the Procurement Leaders’ World Procurement Congress to keep up with the presentations and roundtables from the London Hilton on Park Lane. You can follow the event on Twitter using #wpc.

The owner of the ‘Procurement Leader Award’, Delphi procurement chief Sidney Johnson makes no bones about it, you have to strive to be the best at knowing how to provide value to the organization.

“The future is faster, faster than we think,” was the opener to Tom Linton’s presentation at the World Procurement Congress at the Hilton London on Park Lane this morning.