WEWORK
“ We are creating processes and systems that are really allowing us to scale and grow ”
GARY LEVITAN GLOBAL HEAD OF PROCUREMENT , WEWORK
Data ’ s role in organisational efficiency In his role , Levitan is not only responsible for managing the company ’ s global furniture-and-fixtures supply chain but also for procurement , category management , sourcing and spend control .
Of data , Levitan says : “ It ’ s incredibly important . I know everybody says this , but we want to use data in a different way . Typically within procurement , sourcing and supply chain data is often underused in designing an efficient organisation and the employees needed to effectively run its operations .”
He adds : “ Typically , building a procurement organisation is based on spend under management . There are industry benchmarks that most chief procurement officers use to guide staffing needs . So for example , a common industry metric is that for every US $ 50mn that you manage , there are benchmarks to say that you need X amount of full-time employees , then on top of that , the complexity of the category dictates the level of experience but typically that is then the end of the data . The major weakness of this analysis is that
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