Redefining procurement’s purpose

CPOstrategy meets with Vel Dhinagaravel and Suketu Gandhi, Global Chair at Kearney to discuss the changing nature of procurement and how Beroe MAX powered by Kearney serves the function of the future. Across the interview, they get into: 

• Moving beyond the savings mindset – why annual savings targets are “outdated,” and what measuring for continuous competitiveness looks like instead 

• Reimagining procurement’s purpose – the case for not just automating existing processes, but rethinking why procurement exists in the first place 

• Procurement’s growing strategic influence – how boardroom conversations are shifting from cost control to solving the business’s biggest challenges 

• The human role in an automated future – Vel’s “exoskeleton” framing for AI tools like Beroe MAX, expanding what category managers can do while keeping people at the heart of the decision 

• Talent and leadership for a new era – the commercial, technological and communication skills procurement teams will need next 

Read the full CPO Strategy article here