Art of Procurement30 Syys 2019

272: Harmonizing Global Procurement Processes and Technology at Deutsche Telekom w/ Hakan Cakir

"If you were to ask me what the 'Art of Procurement' is, I would say it is bringing together the right people and the right partners."

In this week's podcast, we get to listen in on a conversation about digital transformation on a global scale that was recorded at Ivalua NOW in Paris earlier this year.

Hakan Cakir is the Procurement Digitalization & Analytics Product Owner of Sourcing Solutions for Deutsche Telekom AG, one of the world's leading integrated telecommunications solutions with 178 million mobile customers, 28 million fixed lines and 20 million broadband users in 50 countries. DT is best known in the US for their T-Mobile brand.

The procurement steering team that Hakan works within has end-to-end responsibility for all group wide strategic procurement processes and systems including digitization and innovation roadmaps. Given the scope and scale of their project, they leveraged advocates across the company, a key decision that allowed them to harmonize their processes before implementing technology.

In this conversation, Hakan talks about:

Their future state vision for the source-to-contract process and how that informed technology decisions.

How his team emphasized usability and acceptance testing to improve the implementation process and maximize adoption rates.

Lessons learned from a broad global rollout that required change management training and communication.

How DT plans to move forward towards their primary goal of building a fully data-driven procurement function.

The role that emerging technologies such as chatbots may play in DT's global procurement future in the future.

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876: AI with Purpose: Designing Procurement's Next Chapter W/ Gaël De Martelaere

"If you build AI on top of weak foundations, you're going to have a very broken system." - Gaël De Martelaere, Chief Procurement Officer, Hexion AI is driving enormous change in procurement, but succe...

27 Heinä 41min

875: How to Transform Every Procurement Partnership W/ Kate Vitasek

"When you have a great partnership, the value that you can create is unbelievable if you know how to do it." - Kate Vitasek Despite the best intentions, nearly 70% of business partnerships unravel wit...

20 Heinä 47min

EP 11: Provider of the Week: Valdera

Chemical procurement's complexity isn't news, but the pace of change – and risk – is climbing fast. With AI sweeping through every corner of the business, leaders charged with sourcing chemicals and r...

15 Heinä 24min

874: Building Resilience Beyond Tier One: Hard Truths About Risk and Visibility W/ Harald Nitschinger

"Resilience doesn't mean a supply chain that doesn't see risk. That's impossible. It means setting yourself up to withstand shocks and disruptions." - Harald Nitschinger, Co-founder and CEO, Prewave T...

13 Heinä 37min

873: Creating Capacity for Complex Problem Solving W/ Israel Santiesteban

"We need to evolve from procurement professionals into business leaders with procurement expertise." - Israel Santiesteban, Former Chief Procurement Officer and Head of Supply Chain The next evolution...

6 Heinä 39min

EP 10: Supplier Management as a Connected Discipline W/ Jesse Lee

"If your business is getting bigger, then supplier management is going to be ever more important to you." - Jesse Lee, Co-founder, CEO of Brooklyn Solutions Procurement's role in managing suppliers is...

1 Heinä 31min

872: Beyond Automation: Accelerating Agentic AI Transformation in Procurement W/ Vishal Patel

"The future of procurement isn't actually AI. It's people using AI to improve business outcomes and improve their own value add." - Vishal Patel, SVP Product & Customer Marketing at Ivalua Many procur...

29 Kesä 28min

871: The New Rules of Procurement Leadership W/ Gary Mizhir

"I measure success by the number of executives that come to us before they make decisions." - Gary Mizhir, Senior Director Head of Innovation & Excellence, FIS The pressure to move from tactical cost ...

22 Kesä 46min