At the Annual Procurement Industry awards held in Melbourne, Portland Group has been recognised with a special Achievement
Award, the first time such an award has been made to a procurement services provider. In presenting the award, David Noble,
Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), said as follows:
"This year, CIPS would like to recognise a strategic contribution to the procurement profession from the local service
industry here in Australia.
In Procurement we are dependent on our suppliers much of the time; … increasingly as Procurement Professionals we are also
dependent on our service providers as well - increasingly as our economic cycles become more pronounced.
One service provider in particular has delivered a number of things that have changed the landscape of the service sector
in Australia:
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They have provided a real, and local, alternative to the big 6 consultancies – and are now listed first by these firms
as their principal competitor
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They have consistently presented a twin offering covering the breadth of two closely related disciplines - Procurement
and Supply Chain Management consulting
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They have also provided a local alternative for managed services provision – making the concept accessible for smaller
requirements
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They have made the independent boutique consulting approach valid in Australia, and opened up the possibility of considering
smaller firms – even for the big jobs
In recognition of a decade of work building Portland Group into the acknowledged contributor it is today, CIPS Australia
would like to present this special Achievement Award"
Portland Group would like to thank all of our employees and clients for their contribution to our success over the last decade.
We look forward to continuing to drive innovation and excellence in the procurement services sector in the Asia Pacific
region, for the benefit of all of our stakeholders. With the global support and capabilities of our parent company, Infosys,
we believe we are very well positioned to continue to lead the sector for the next decade.
About Infosys Portland
Infosys Portland is a subsidiary of Infosys BPO Ltd., a part of Infosys Ltd. Our mission is to make our clients successful
by increasing their profitability through procurement and supply chain improvements. We are unique in providing services
to improve efficiency and effectiveness across our clients’ complete procurement and supply chain functions, ranging from
innovative, high-end strategy through to effective, low-cost operations and transactional processing. The resulting transformational
benefits for clients include lower costs, reduced risk and improved service from client suppliers.
About Infosys BPO
Infosys BPO Ltd. (
www.infosysbpo.com ), the business process outsourcing subsidiary of Infosys Ltd., was set up in April 2002. Infosys
BPO focuses on integrated end-to-end outsourcing and delivers transformational benefits to its clients through reduced
costs, on-going productivity improvements, and process reengineering. Infosys BPO operates in India, Poland, the Czech
Republic, the Netherlands, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Costa Rica, the United States, China, the Philippines, Japan and
Australia, and as of December 31, 2013, employed 27,894 people. It closed FY 2012-13 with revenues of $583.1 million.
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and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration,
restrictions on immigration, industry segment concentration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced
demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks or system failures, our ability
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of the companies in which Infosys has made strategic investments, withdrawal or expiration of governmental fiscal incentives,
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