NORTH AMERICA As part of its business , SCI also offers travel services to help clients travel home to pay their respects – another area of the business to have been upended by technology . “ Working very closely with Carlson Wagonlit , the company has created the CWT platform that all our 24,000 employees through North America and Puerto Rico use to book their airline travel hotels needs and car rentals , for example .” On top of this , the Texas-headquartered firm also has a fleet of 7,000 vehicles which it oversees using a digital fleet management platform .
Data is the lifeblood of any procurement team and , at SCI , Jones points out that data analytics has allowed the company to evaluate and benchmark its purchases . “ I think data is key in everything that we do ,” he explains . “ It drives our decision making and allows us to analyze our purchases to ensure we ’ re driving the right total value for our organization . One key example of how we use data is that it allows us to analyze different trends and forecast whether the price of bronze , metals or other materials is going to rise or fall .”
With a compassionate , empathetic team , SCI ’ s employees have not been neglected by the transformation . Creating a culture that fosters innovation and collaboration , the company teamed up with KPMG to develop
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