The Elephant in the Room: How To Make Your Year-End Performance Review Count by Roz Usheroff

Editor’s Note: As I read this post by Roz Usheroff on performance reviews, I could not help but wonder how procurement professionals see this process in terms of ascertaining their value to their organization.  After all, it wasn’t that long ago that a study found that the vast majority of CFOs did not see purchasing has a function that delivered any real value in critical areas including the bottom line. With the recent ascent of former supply chain executives at Toshiba and now GM to their company’s highest executive seat, one cannot help but believe that this will help to change this perception, as well as the way in which procurement professional contributions are evaluated.