VODAFONE PROCUREMENT COMPANY
Ninian
Wilson describes Vodafone Procurement ' s Digital Transformation
due to probably three drivers . We mentioned autonomous sourcing , machine learning , and artificial intelligence becoming real and deployable in business as usual activities .
“ And yes , supply chains have come into very sharp relief through the pandemic because ,
“ We will be making some more digital investments to make sure that we maintain that resilience
NINIAN WILSON CEO , VODAFONE PROCUREMENT you know , does your supply chain work ? Does it work in a pandemic ? Is it resilient ? Will it continue to be resilient ? And I , for one , I ' ve never had more airtime with the executive team here at Vodafone – you are high profile as a supply chain function right now . I think it ’ s a tremendously exciting time , a lot of risk to manage , but a lot of new things coming as well .”
The Vodafone Procurement Company -VPC - was well prepared for the pandemic when it really hit home . A lot of digitisation work had already been done . Within three weeks of the company experiencing its first case close to the business , they moved 98,000 working from home . So one of the big learnings was their investment in digital was how that helped them continue .
Wilson also recalls back in December 2019 that some Chinese partners mentioned , during a coffee break in London , that something ‘ really bad was happening ’ in a place called Wuhan .
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