TECH & AI
Adding to Holland ’ s comments , Lampe sees smart automation as a valuable asset for the supply chain and procurement industry . “ This smart automation of tasks that can be done across S2P right now , there are a lot of opportunities for the process to be automated where no manual intervention is really needed . Those are no brainers , which provides opportunities for organisations to decrease their costs .
“ There is also decision support , today people need to make sense of data , there is a lot of talk that procurement professionals of the future need to be data analysts , but this doesn ’ t make sense with the current talent market , so an area of opportunity is for technology to be used in data analysis with
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