SupplyChain Magazine September 2018 | Page 89

USA sale of more than 5.5mn units valued at over $ 40bn through its auctions . Ronald Wright is Senior Director of Enterprise Optimisation at KAR and it is his job to ensure support and supply across the company . Just don ’ t use the dreaded ‘ p word ’…
“ We don ’ t even use the word ‘ procurement ’ here ,” he says , speaking from his Indiana office . “ We call our operation ‘ Enterprise Optimisation ’. We don ’ t talk about procurement
because that ’ s too narrow of a focus of what we do . If there needs to be optimisation of a process , we ’ re there . If there needs to be optimisation of a particular project , we ’ re there . If there needs to be optimisation of how we bring value , again , we ’ re there . If there needs to be optimisation in cost , we ’ re there . That ’ s why we ’ re enterprise optimisation . We ’ re not sourcing , we ’ re not a supply chain , we ’ re not procurement . Moreover , this umbrella of
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