John Wookey is back at SAP , helping procurement up its game , bringing a CX approach to intelligent spend management
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INTELLIGENT SPEND MANAGEMENT WITH A CX APPROACH
John Wookey is back at SAP , helping procurement up its game , bringing a CX approach to intelligent spend management
WRITTEN BY : LAURA V . GARCIA
As one who loves procurement , there are some people I deem myself lucky to meet . Mr John Wookey , President of SAP ’ s Intelligent Spend and Business Network Group , is one of those people . Wookey has spent much of his career changing the face of how we work , and as the enterprise technology industry continues to evolve , Wookey continues to do just that .
Having boomeranged to his old stomping grounds at SAP , Wookey is once again smashing silos and building bridges . Wookey re-joined SAP in October of 2020 , after spending most of the previous decade at Salesforce during a time when they were going through some pretty expeditious growth . Wookey had left SAP for Salesforce back in 2011 when the company consisted of about 5,000 employees . By the time Wookey left Salesforce that number was nearing the 49,000 employees that it reports today .
Prior to his departure , Wookey had spent a few years at SAP building the first set of on-demand applications to take to market . This marked the beginning of the cloud journey . Years later , Wookey reconnected with a few board members . As Wookey explained , “ We had a very strong alignment in terms of where we saw the market going , and the criticality of things like cloud computing and the operating model for software in the future . We also agreed that some of the new emerging technologies like artificial intelligence needed to come into applications in a much more integral way
“ Every CPO is trying to think about how to make their suppliers a more integral part of their innovation strategy and get them more engaged in the process ”
JOHN WOOKEY PRESIDENT , INTELLIGENT SPEND AND BUSINESS NETWORK SAP
22 April 2021