What KPMG can offer you

When it comes to extracting more value from their procurement and supply chain functions, leading companies increasingly look to KPMG to help them create and embed enduring change.

Our clients have very high expectations of us. We respond by recruiting truly outstanding people, providing them with opportunities to grow and learn across a range of industries and clients within Australia and globally.

As one of KPMG's respected procurement and supply chain professionals you'll show clients how to cut costs, enhance business security and support future growth. You'll find our end-to-end approach covers:

  • strategy
  • operational management
  • planning
  • source-to-contract
  • contract and supplier management
  • purchase-to-pay
  • fulfilment
  • manufacturing.

Our people also understand how to get the most from the key enablers that support these processes:

  • operating structure, leadership and people
  • technology, governance and performance
  • sustainability
  • cost, cash and risk.

KPMG's procurement and supply chain practice is growing rapidly. It's why we are looking for talented people with varied backgrounds, experiences and skills sets. Our aim is to grow both within our existing city hubs of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra, as well as establish new bases in other places such as Perth.

Our work is varied, exciting and often fast-paced, involving everything from opportunity diagnostics and specific improvement projects through to large-scale full transformations. We help blue-chip and emerging organisations within such diverse markets as financial services, infrastructure and mining; as well as government departments, agencies and public sector utilities.

As part of KPMG's Business Performance Services team, our procurement and supply chain practitioners work collaboratively with professionals in allied disciplines to provide multifaceted solutions. Further, as part of a global network of member firms, we can access KPMG people and knowledge around the world. Specifically, we regularly tap into our global procurement and supply chain community with significant presence in the UK, North America, South Africa and Singapore.

We will support you with advanced methodologies and tools as well as helping you to upgrade your capabilities and personal qualifications. Our thought leadership is an important source of lead-in conversations with existing and potential clients. Recent KPMG publications include:

  • Beyond Purchasing: Next Steps for the Procurement Professional
  • The Industrial Perspective: Long-Term Contracts
  • Rethinking Cost Structures.
Video: Cutting through complexity
Procurement thought leadership publications
Beyond Purchasing: Next steps for the procurement profession.
Procurement has the opportunity to become an important strategic player in organisations. It will achieve this by aligning itself with business priorities, and making its planning, sourcing, and vendor coordination central to the creation of value and savings in contracts.
Published July 2008
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Strategies to help vendors optimise their long-term global contracts.
In today’s cost-sensitive business environment, global diversified businesses are leveraging external vendors to add value to their customers and as a means of reducing costs. To be successful, vendors providing services and solutions for these companies should take a thoughtful approach to long-term contracts.
Published May 2010
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