The Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) has presented the Procurement Excellence Standard Certificate to Seplat Energy Plc.
The global chief executive officer, CIPS, Ben Farrell, made the presentation to Seplat Energy at the company’s office in Ikoyi – Lagos on June 5th 2025. Farrell led a delegation from the CIPS to make the presentation to the Seplat Energy team led by the Chief Operating Officer (COO), Samson Ezugworie; and the General Manager, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Valentine Agwu. Seplat Energy’s application to be assessed against the CIPS standards started in February 2023?
During the period, CIPS-approved assessors reviewed – amongst other criteria – the company’s processes, policies, ways of working, and so on, against 98 elements and across 5 dimensions (categories) used to assess the operations of a supply chain management organisation.
Seplat Energy’s Supply Chain Management (SCM) held the final assessment with a CIPS Advantage Procurement Excellence Programme Independent Verifier on Monday the 21st of January 2025. Consequently, on Wednesday 22nd January, CIPS announced that Seplat Energy Plc has been issued with the award.
The CIPS Global CEO observed that the award has only been issued to a few organisations who have demonstrated to be aspirational, continuingly obsessed with being better and raising the bar.
Farrell said: “We don’t give these Certificates away, because they are serious, meaningful recognition of that ambition. So, it is designed for hard work and to be rigorous, because we want people to feel at the end of it that they are really proficient, and they are capable of all the things it is designed to do. So, it is a real recognition of your commitment and the team’s commitment. Congratulations to you all,” he added.
He thanked the entire SCM Team, led by Valentine Agwu, for making the company proud and further challenged them on a continuous implementation journey towards the Platinum Category of the certificate, such that sustainability becomes the next level of challenge.
