PwC to hold Digital Procurement Excellence workshop

Pursuant to its objective of propagating digitalisation and digital procurement, PwC is set to conduct a transformative five-day workshop to be held between January 25 and February 02, 2022. 

The programme will consist of a panel of industry experts and important resource personnel from PwC’s global network. Among the speakers at the event are national and international procurement advisor and former National Procurement Commission of Sri Lanka Commission Member Christy Perera, PwC Associate Director Asanka Wasalathilaka and PwC Director Technology Consulting Mayura Malagala. 

The key topics covered will include good governance and procurement best practices, sustainable procurement and environmental, social and corporate governance in the procurement process, e-procurement, integrated solutions and procurement process excellence amongst others.     

  
Malagala stated, “The modern business era is all about disruption and very often technology is the source of disruption. Though that term does have an intimidating undertone, disruption is only a natural part of evolution. Businesses are using digitalisation as a means to disrupt and recreate their business processes, with a focus on efficiency, agility and transparency. The digitalisation of the procurement process has become more widespread, with good reason: it 
produces many measurable and practical advantages over traditional means.”

Wasalathilaka added, “Excellence in digital procurement is a milestone that many, if not most, manufacturing and trading organisations around the world are striving to reach. The reasons for this are very clear: reduced costs, higher efficiency, better output quality and transparency of information. Through our workshop, we hope to draw on PwC’s global experiences in implementing digital procurement systems to educate, inform and transform the understanding that Sri Lankan businesses have with regards to digital procurement and join hands with them so they too could strive towards Digital Procurement Excellence.”

This transformative five-day programme is ideally suited for senior professionals working in procurement, high-level professionals from manufacturing and trade organisations as well as entrepreneurs and businesses that rely on procurement as a 
critical function.