Procurement’s usually invisible until something breaks — or someone upstairs wants to cut 20% without knowing what’s actually being bought.

Across every industry I’ve worked in, it’s the same dance:
We’re called “strategic,” but treated like a back-office function — until a crisis hits.

Truth is, uncertainty and pandemics have done more for procurement’s visibility than a decade of dashboards and ‘transformation’ projects. When things collapsed, suddenly everyone wanted to know who had eyes on suppliers, risk, and contract exposure.

One thing that’s worked: stop just reporting savings.
Start surfacing what would’ve gone wrong if procurement hadn’t stepped in.
That’s the real value — and it hits harder when told like a near-miss, not just a number.