“ It ' s not a magic bullet , but our partners will learn that if they do more on these pillars , they will score higher and win more business . And that allows us to translate that purpose vision during the supply chain .”
– everybody can see during the pandemic that ' s a good thing to do . The second pillar is around diversity and inclusion , both in the workplace but also in our supply chain . And then the third pillar is around planning . And we think there ' s a fundamental opportunity for both our company Vodafone , but also for supply chains to really reinforce the point that we ' ve only got one planet .
“ I think if you ' re in supply chain and there ' s an opportunity to drive some real systematic change , then I think we should take it – and we ' ve taken that opportunity . Our tender documents now have 20 % of the scoring based around purpose . So we ' re not just talking about it , we ' re actually putting it into tenders because we know if we do that then over time it will change behaviours .
Key Partners Being a global telecommunications giant means Vodafone inevitably works with householdnames from the consumer technology world . That obviously means Google , Facebook , Apple , while Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) and Oracle are “ key partners for Vodafone ”.
The company also works with infrastructure partners including Nokia , Ericsson , Huawei and Cisco . On top of those , Wilson estimates Vodafone works with around 11,500 suppliers across the group . However , when considering organisations that are helping Vodafone to transform supply chain , then Wilson highlights some strategic partners that are of particular significance .
“ There ' s probably four or five partners who are really important to us ,” he says . “ First of all , we have a real strategic relationship with SAP and SAP has become the backbone for a lot of our digital enablement within supply chain – whether it ' s inventory management , PO processing , or actually helping us work through awarding tenders . So SAP Ariba is there . Above that , we ' re using S / 4HANA , which holds all of our data , but then what we ' ve done is built niche products on top of that , to make sure that we could really capitalise on tools that help us visualise performance .
“ We pull that data from S / 4HANA and we then visualise it with a tool called Celonis – a German unicorn . It ' s a fantastic company to work with . And they ' ve really helped us visualise all of our key metrics and scores , both on compliance and efficiency .
“ The second to the company we ' ve worked with is SirionLabs . They helped us with commercial contract management , capturing
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