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#Global Procurement In August, the Procurement Department held its regular "Creative Friday" event where it announced the second part of the "We Deliver" program, now called "Changing the Specs". The project has a completely different approach intended to push our team to a new level of efficient cooperation and compliance with procurement procedures. This will improve the current practices and specifications and therefore increase the efficiency of business processes. Who can participate in the project? Any employee of the Russia and Central Asia Cluster who is a procurement initiator, or any employee who is actively participating in the procurement process in projects that have been launched, completed and formalized under contracts with suppliers throughout the financial year. How are the projects assessed? All the projects will be assessed based on the following key criteria: • compliance with the schedule; • compliance with the requirements of the Company’s procedures; • importance/role of a change in the approach to the procurement project implementation compared to the previous approach (for repeating projects) and of the initially suggested approach (for new projects); •  importance/role of changes in specifications or requirements of the procurement project compared to the previous terms (for repeating projects) and of the initially suggested specifications and requirements (for new projects). Please note that the main criterion for assessing the projects within the Program will not be costs and expenses, but the novelty and creativity of the approach or changes in specifications, as well as the importance of such changes for final results in terms of sales amount, time or quality. More details on assessment criteria and statuses of the program will be provided later. achieve better results. I think that 'We Deliver' will help us implement important and necessary changes in 2018, since we will think and act together to achieve better results.” is focused on getting our key partners interested in reconsidering ‘historically developed’ approaches, in order to determine area for improvement and find better solutions together.” Svetlana Lukashevich, Regional Procurement Operations Manager (Russia, Central Asia, Turkey): “Albert Einstein once said: 'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' The work of the Procurement Department should not just be useful. It should help our business to Egor Maksunov, Procurement Specialist (office materials, information systems, motor transport and logistic services): “Progress is not accidental, but necessary, and therefore we are launching the second stage of the incentive program 'We Deliver' with the slogan 'Changing the Spec.' The program Margarita Zakharova, Procurement Specialist (marketing materials and equipment): “When you move, only one of three states is possible: moving closer to the goal, moving away from it or hopeless motion around the goal. 'Changing the Specs' helps our joint movement forward. And when the changes are positive, we can move on faster and in a more effective way.” The Империалист |  | 30