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In 2010 , co-founders of IT giant Tradeshift – Christian Lanng , Mikkel Hippe Brun and Gert Sylvest – launched the company with one ambition in mind : to connect every business in the world . Having achieved success five years earlier in 2005 through the unveiling of Easy Trade , the world ’ s first open-source trade platform , the three men collaborated together again to create Tradeshift as the firm became a leader in supply chain payments . Now , the company is responsible for connecting 1.5mn businesses across 190 different countries , processing half a trillion dollars annually in transaction value as Tradeshift has continued to go from strength to strength .
We spoke with Sylvest and Roy Anderson , Chief Procurement Officer ( CPO ) and Digital Transformation Officer , who both believe the acceleration of digitisation has been key to its firm ’ s supply chain transformation , as technology becomes increasingly prevalent to companies worldwide . “ If you ’ re trying to digitise in the supply chain , everyone is going to ask why they should change their processes and pay hefty consultant fees to move data out of accounting systems in order to accommodate one particular buyer from more than 100 buyers ,” affirms Anderson .
AUGUST 2019