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Outside view - Sprint retail store offering ,” Legaz says . However , real estate that supports network and transmission towers is all managed by a dedicated in-house team .
Clarity through analysis Legaz ’ s team is now turning its attention to analytics as it revamps its spend analysis process , collecting , cleansing , classifying and analyzing expenditure data with an eye to cutting procurement costs further . At the same time , they are improving efficiency and monitoring compliance .
To this end , the team is creating a new ‘ spend cube ’ to give great insight into the relationship between commodity , cost center and vendor .
At the beginning of 2017 , Legaz pressed the button on an implementation that will , he is convinced , ensure that the new procurement strategies become firmly rooted . The existing strategic sourcing software suite was neither capable enough nor easy to use , so in June last year Sprint published an RFP to find the best replacement . In August
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