While most procurement teams are still debating whether to use ChatGPT for writing RFPs, forward-thinking organisations are beginning to let AI agents make significant sourcing decisions with increasing autonomy. Here’s the reality: procurement is experiencing its most significant transformation since the introduction of e-procurement systems. But this isn’t about incremental…
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With over $80 Bn of benchmarking
spend data, 20,000 participants in
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20 years of Australian experience
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Meet Benjamin Shute
Qualifications
- FCIPS, Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Honours)
- Cert IV Training & Assessment
Specialisations
- Category Management, Social procurement
- Maximising Your Leadership Potential
- Negotiations and Supplier Relationship Management
- Procurement Transformation and Data analytics
Overview
Ben is the CEO of Comprara – his vision is to support clients to ‘gain more ground’. Ben leads the Comprara team who deliver services, tools, training and technologies to organisations in both the public and private sector.
Every service accelerates clients efforts to deliver more with the same, or the same with less. Ben was rated in the top 35 of under 35’s by ‘Supply Management Magazine’ and ranked as one of UK’s rising stars (2005).
Ben has held distinguished roles including Head of Sourcing Strategy for Ericsson in the UK and Head of Procurement Practice for the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS).
Comprara works with ASX 200 companies (including some of the largest organisations in Australia and New Zealand) giving clients insights into how well they are performing against others and in the context of their own unique strategies. With insights gained and roadmaps developed your capacity will grow to do ‘more with less’ or ‘more with the same’.
Recommendation:
“Ben is a highly professional, extensively skilled procurement and sourcing specialist with an uncanny ability to keep things simple and focussed. I encourage anyone to discuss sourcing needs with him, whether it be for a small enterprise or multinational business.”
– Duncan Munro, Director, Operational Innovation
Articles authored by Benjamin Shute
Beyond ChatGPT: How Agentic AI is Transforming Procurement Strategy
The Procurement Operating System: How the 5P–7R–3C–7S Model Creates Procurement Excellence
The Problem with Procurement Models Here’s something that should make us pause: Walk into the most sophisticated procurement departments today, and you’ll encounter a curious contradiction. Teams are armed with the 5 P’s of Procurement, the 7 R’s of Procurement, and the 10 C’s of Supplier Evaluation, yet many still…
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Procurement Data Analytics: Your Competitive Edge in the C-Suite
In a room full of confident voices, the one with the facts leads. At a time when CFOs are scrutinising spend, CMOs are chasing agility, and CIOs are under pressure to deliver transformation at scale, procurement has a unique opportunity: to be the unifying force that drives clarity, action, and…
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The Butterfly Effect in Procurement: Navigating Randomness and Complexity
Let’s talk about those unforeseen disruptions that keep procurement leaders awake at night. You know the ones: a single ship, like the Ever Given, runs aground and suddenly 12% of global trade is stuck in limbo; or a global chip shortage hits, spawned by demand spikes and pandemic-driven slowdowns that…
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