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with that answer in the US , 49 % in Germany , and 41 % in the rest of Europe , so that was by far the number one topic that we have seen as being the key challenge for companies in preparing themselves for the future .
“ When you look back at procurement , it ’ s not necessarily a very strategic function right from the beginning . You can probably say that modern procurement started in the 1950s or 1960s when it was more operation and process-driven , and it has evolved over time , in the 1990s particularly . We were then able to see by going deeper and focusing more , the impact that a company
could create with a professional procurement function that was really huge , both with hard savings and soft savings , looking at the numbers and seeing how they impacted profit .”
Different approaches ? Although there is a shared belief across continents that attraction and retention of talent is the main challenge for the industry , what motivated SAP Ariba and Vollmer to conduct such detailed research was the discrepancy in perception between what executives in the US thought about how to best move forward into the new digital age and then contrasting that with
20 August 2017