Christine Hipp
Christine Hipp
TITLE :
ACQUISITION SERVICES MANAGEMENT , CENTER OF EXCELLENCE LEADER
COMPANY : LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY
INDUSTRY : SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LOCATION : US defence , medicine , government and space exploration . At present , this functionality is available to these sectors only in the US , but SAP has plans to also serve regulated industries outside of the United States .
LANL ’ s procurement transformation kickstarted in 2019 , when it began its move from Oracle e-Business Suite to SAP Ariba . “ We were seeing significant growth in our procurement demand and needed to modernise our tool set ,” explains Hipp . “ We chose Ariba as our source-to-pay solution and implemented it between January 2020 and June 2021 .”
A key reason for the switch was because Ariba , in Hipp ’ s words , “ allowed us to
At LANL Christine Hipp leads the
ACE ( Agility , Capability , Excellence ) programme for procurement . This includes implementing new technology , and , she says , “ adopting robust spend analytics and focusing on strategic sourcing and category management for procurement ”.
Hipps adds : “ Los Alamos is a government contract-run laboratory for the Department of Energy . We are run by a company called Triad , which is made up of a combination of Battelle Memorial Institute and the University of California .
“ It ' s always been run by educational institutions . Historically , LANL was created as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II . We ' re known as the birthplace of the atomic bomb . Today , we do all kinds of work , from R & D and science to genome sequencing for the Covid-19 vaccine .
“ We maintain a heavy presence in US national security , being stewards of the nation ' s nuclear weapons programme . So it ' s an interesting place to work ".
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