“ ONE OF THE STATS WE DON ’ T TALK ABOUT A LOT AT SAP IS THAT THERE ARE MORE THAN 3.3MN BUYERS AND SELLERS ON OUR NETWORK , AND THERE ’ S A NEW ONE ADDED EVERY 60 SECONDS . LOOKING AT THE VOLUME THAT GOES THROUGH THE NETWORK TODAY IT ’ S JUST OVER $ 1.6TRN ” —
Barry Padgett President , SAP Ariba
I think this will be in the next couple of years and there ’ ll be huge changes in these challenges that have traditionally been related to scale . “ Secondly , we ’ ll see a lot of interesting things in innovation that relate specifically to purpose . A lot of companies are weaving a ‘ business with a purpose ’ story into everything they do . It will no longer be a case of ‘ we just procure tech and we go fix a problem ’ and more ‘ we want to do that , but we want it to have some sort of impact on our ethical and sustainable diversity goals ’. How does that relate directly to the role of procurement ? “ A lot of companies are talking about making the world a better place and the impact they have in their communities . Procurement could have a transformative effect on how they interact in their communications and how they drive transparency in the supply chain . I think we ’ ll see great advances on both these fronts . We ’ ll solve a bunch of problems through the cognitive platforms that are becoming widely available to us today .”
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