“ WE TAKE EVERY and Supply . Purss has more than two decades of experience in the gaming and hospitality sector and has managed analytics and reporting , ERP and procurement data management , cost control and inventory management teams across Crown ’ s Australian resorts since 2014 . At that time , he says , the available data was held in a disparate manner – each site was responsible for its own information and with very little crossfertilisation within the business . “ There was really no consistent reporting ability on our expenditure . Getting the information out of the ERP system was difficult unless you had knowledge in that area , and when management called for an overview there was a lot of telephoning .” He recalls that there was just one individual within the group who knew how to access it all – the spend data was reconciled annually , and preparing that report took up to four months .
Enter smart procurement What was needed was a smart procurement management system ( PMS ) that would permit the team
OPPORTUNITY WE CAN TO IMPROVE OUR FOOTPRINT AND OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH SUPPLIERS , REDUCING COSTS ON BOTH SIDES WHILE BEING MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY ”
– Justin Purss , Procurement Systems and Compliance Manager
to standardise sourcing processes , give clear visibility into the different categories of spending , and streamline the time-consuming manual processes that were being used . The major benefit from this would be that it would enable analytics to be applied through artificial intelligence and introduce a UNSPSC ( United Nations Standard Products and Services Code ) taxonomy of
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