Warwick Shaw
Principal · Practical Procurement
Warwick has spent more than two decades leading procurement transformations across consulting engagements and senior organisational roles. Practical Procurement is the consolidation of that work into a single operating system: the Collaborative Procurement Operating Model, built on the Added Value Sourcing philosophy.
Why transparency changes everything.
Most procurement methodologies are built on leverage. Get more suppliers. Create competition. Drive the price down. The Added Value Sourcing model is built on a completely different premise.
When you truly understand what something should cost, when your stakeholders feel heard and empowered, and when your suppliers see you as a genuine partner in their future, the value you create together far exceeds anything you could extract through traditional negotiation tactics.
Done with you, not to you.
Stakeholders don't resist procurement. They resist being processed. Suppliers don't withhold value. They withhold trust. The engagement model at Practical Procurement is designed so that everyone at the table — internal and external — feels listened to, not abused.
It is done with your organisation, not to it. That is the difference that makes the difference.
Let's find where the value is hiding.
A 45 minute, no-obligation conversation. You'll walk away with something useful regardless.