SUPPLY CHAIN reform its purchasing practices . “ NSW is the biggest purchaser in Australia , spending A $ 20 billion a year on goods and services alone , but because it is done on an individual agency basis we are not making the best use of our purchasing capacity . We are working toward an approach where the NSW government is the purchaser , not the agency .”
From the state level it ’ s a short step to the federal . “ In the public Supply Chain you are accountable to the whole of society not just the shareholders . I always do succession planning . I will be a guest speaker at the upcoming CIPS Asia Pacific Conference in Melbourne in July , where I will be talking about the changes we have made in our organisation . We are working with the federal government to make procurement a formal provision in Australia : at present it is lumped in under general finance .” www . nswtrains . nsw . gov . au 91