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    Indirect Procurement Report 2025

    2025 INDIRECT PROCUREMENT REPORT

    Tackling the cost of Business: Explore what's inside

    The 2025 Indirect Procurement Report produced by RS, in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS), explores the key challenges in relation to supplies for maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO). Key themes include:

    • A challenging landscape - Procurement continues to wrestle with significant issues, which include inflation, reduced operational budgets and risk.
    • ESG takes centre stage - Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) has become part of business and strategy. Tactics for reducing carbon footprint, sustainable products and tools and techniques used for assessing suppliers, are explored.
    • Staying in control – Managing the category of supplies for MRO is complex. Suppliers, spend, KPIs and digital procurement are explored.

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    Explore the Key Themes

    MRO procurement business pressures

    Those working in MRO procurement face a convergence of internal and external business pressures, driving them to develop strategies to meet cost savings targets while ensuring security of supply

    Upping the ante on ESG

    As organisations come under more pressure to reduce carbon emissions and improve their sustainability credentials, procurement must now demonstrate how it can play its part. This means looking internally but also at the wider supply chain.

    Getting a grip on MRO spend

    With MRO costs increasing, organisations are seeking to develop closer relationships with suppliers, so they can identify opportunities for efficiencies in their category management strategy and reduce the risk of counterfeit items entering the supply chain.

    MRO procurement technology

    Digital systems can help procurement professionals get better visibility of their MRO procurement process and control who they buy from.