MTN, Africa’s largest mobile network operator, has a complex supply chain serving its customers in 19 countries across Africa and the Middle East that is managed by its Global Sourcing and Supply Chain (GSSC) division. MTN has recently embarked on “Procurement 4.0” an initiative leveraging digital procurement models to redesign traditional processes. Andrew Savage, Global […]
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Since the 1990s, with the launch of Amazon, there has been a revolution in the way people buy things. Now, the same revolution that started for us as consumers three decades ago, is starting for businesses, Samuel Oppenheimer, head of strategy at Dooka, tells SmartProcurement. It started slowly but became exponential. In 2021 over 2
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(Part 1): The evolving legal frameworks Spend Matters – an Austrian-based company covering procurement technology for supplier management and sourcing – has begun a 3-part series looking into how a combination of process and technology can help root out and combat forced labour and modern slavery in global supply chains. The company’s senior analyst, Bertrand
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Businesses which neglect to embrace Big Data will be left behind in the fast-moving world of procurement technology, warns Swiss-based procurement specialist, Oliver Engelbrecht. In a world where hundreds of social apps and platforms are being developed on a daily basis, while billions of people are sharing copious amounts of information every millisecond, rapid growth
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Thinking of investing in some of the latest procurement technology? If you have not consulted market trends, got a third opinion and done all of your research, you might want to pull on the reins, advises Dan Quinn, Senior Vice President of cloud-based spend management provider Jaggaer (Middle East and North America). Buying procurement technology
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