Our procurement department is slow. It takes to long to get items approved? Is it turnover or staffing or is it Legal needing more bodies too!
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Procurement with no doubt. It is a mess. It was been that way for a long time and never seems to improve. Wonder if they are chronically understaffed
Having a Chief Procurement Officer who has never worked a day in procurement role prior to this job doesn't help. He was on the chopping block a few years ago but is buddies with Maurice so they took him out of treasury and put him here — with predictable results.
It might be going through the PALS review process. That isn't always quick, as it also loops in Information Security and Privacy along w/ the teams you mentioned. With the current state of cyberthreats, I would not doubt if that team is also giving intense scrutiny to any software being brought in.
software contract approval. I continue to have issues with the change of personnel. Seems that it’s always a new person that is handling contracts. The last comtract took seven months and 3 different people to approve a $78k deal.
What kind of items?