SupplyChain Magazine November 2016 | Page 18

TECHNOLOGY

“ More companies have introduced the role of a CPO and are setting up procurement as a shared service ”

And these investments are critical , because without Asia , there is no global high tech supply chain . Or retail supply chain . Or natural resource chain .
Can you give us an example of a company you are working with in Asia , and how it is using SAP Ariba ? There are more than half a million buyers and suppliers across Asia using SAP Ariba solutions to digitize their supply chains . And they ’ re doing some pretty innovative things . Take AIA Group Ltd . - the largest independent , publicly listed pan- Asian life insurance company .
In 2010 , it was spun off from parent company , AIG . It was operating in 18 markets across Asia Pacific , and suddenly had all the infrastructure
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