CLICK TO WATCH : ‘ GEODIS – WE LOGISTIC YOUR GROWTH ’ 91 customers . We buy services , resources and technologies from the market and from our sister lines of business or from any other logistics service provider . We assemble these solutions to create an end to end network for our customers .”
With the procurement function transforming on an ongoing basis , Mahler reflects how GEODIS is changing the way it conducts its business to coincide with the latest industry trends . “ On an increasing basis , procurement is becoming more of a science that is based on data . It ’ s based on being capable of forecasting what ’ s going to
happen in the next six months to two years . Forecasting is taking the data from the past and then leveraging all the data announcing the trends and looking at how the world will change ,” he explains . “ I believe one of the biggest challenges is transitioning from human negotiation into a business which scientifically predicts where you should go . It ’ s a huge challenge ; it ’ s the leveraging of Big Data .”
INTRODUCING TECHNOLOGY
With technology enabling GEODIS to make its processes simpler , Mahler
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