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the journey that we ’ re on . I think back to those early days , what we used to collect information from , all of our different systems and spreadsheets .
“ It was very heavy workload just to put it all together in sensible categories , even assuming the data was correct . Then , we went over to the category managers who would look in their categories , and their job really was to manually cleanse the data and make judgements about supplier categories or look the reasons for increased spending .
“ Over the last few years , what we have done is automate a lot of that work , and freed up our teams to use their time more effectively . We ’ ve eliminated a lot of the administration that ’ s needed just to bring them together , and we have been pretty successful in building business rules
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