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Sciences Building address our compliance requirements . We have very heavily regulated procurement procedures ; had we not switched many of the requirements we have to follow , they might have prevented us from streamlining and automating procurement processes .”
SAP Ariba configurability ‘ was key ’ Ariba ’ s configurability , she says , “ gave us the opportunity to do exactly this , thanks to its best-in-class solutions around automation ”.
Hipp says LANL its procurement transformation has delivered “ new tools and capabilities ”, and that these have helped it manage the $ 1bn uptick in procurement spend over the past two years . The doubling of its spend in this time “ is an interesting problem to have as a government contractor ”.
She adds : “ The Federal government needs us to expand , and so we ' re acquiring things to facilitate that . Our revenue has grown from $ 2bn to more than $ 4bn , and half of that goes into more procurement . We ’ re also modernising our facilities in Atlanta , so that has also led to a lot of large procurement spend .”
The huge increase in spend has seen LANL ’ s more agile procurement transformation come into its own .
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