JABIL
16 to us for thought leadership , market benchmarking and product proof of concept support . It ’ s a very collaborative approach .
“ Then you have a third kind : customers that are really up-and-coming and don ’ t have to rectify historical issues . They can concentrate on what they ’ re good at and say to Jabil , ‘ I want you to run my supply chain ’. Their perception is that they ’ re not going to invest in those capabilities , when we can do it for them .”
At the same time , Jabil is transforming how it runs its own supply chains , and is implementing a digital initiative around the platforms it utilises to deliver its services , signalling a move towards cloud-based infrastructure . The size of the business – over 100 factories in 29 counties , hundreds of customers and a supply chain of 17,000 companies – means the transformation is one of real scale .
New technologies have already transformed how Jabil operates from a procurement perspective , says Caltabiano . “ The size of our company means we have hundreds of contract negotiations going on at any one time . It ’ s critically important for us to expedite report generation , quickly produce analytics , drive rapid negotiations and produce results that help our custom-
OCTOBER 2018