“ I believe in process excellence and in data and analytics being a huge
enabler to making smarter decisions ”
– Mariano Legaz , Senior Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer
2016 , having reviewed all the available software - considering supplier registration , project management , sourcing , contracting , spend analysis and supplier performance from the point of view of usability and functionality - Sprint made its choice .
The solution that combined much better usability than the previous tool with better functionality is Ivalua , a world-class , end-to-end suite of procurement modules .
“ Our focus during the first phase was on simplifying the user interface from our previous tool and on taking advantage of extra things it offered like a more robust auction setup functionality to run more hands-off auctions ,” Legaz says . “ We are currently working on finalizing business requirements for phase two ( contracting , spend analysis , and supplier performance ). We couldn ’ t
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Sprint ’ s Annual Revenue monitor supplier performance before , so we will now have better visibility into our supplier risk and performance .” The Ivalua implementation is the big sourcing story of 2017 at Sprint , but refining the procurement processes and adding analytics functionality is a never-ending quest . As clarity improves , gaps are identified so investments are being made and people hired to fill those gaps .
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