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In an organization like Accenture, you can curate your content, create catalogs for brand-defined or mission-critical purchases the suppliers and negotiated rates you need.

So, we put a "guided experience wrapper" for our folks online, very similar to the consumer experience so that they understand. However, folks may go outside the standard, cost-effective measures and end up with purchases on time and expense reports where they shouldn't be.

"You need policies to guide you through the purchasing decision.

We have about $6 billion of addressable spend and run of greater than 80% of that through SAP Ariba."Įli explains the concept of guided buying, which was central to the project: "Our CIO organization partnered with procurement take the mandate of simplifying and transforming the buying experience for our entire Accenture 450,000-person organization. The following table from research by The Hackett Group summarizes the problem: Procurement innovation should lead beyond cost-savings and efficiency.

Relationships: Rethinking the complexity of enterprise procurement processes can streamline the relationship between buyers and sellers, to help both sides gain mutual benefit.

As one SAP Ariba customer in the oil industry told me, getting rid of this complicated hub-and-spoke approach to purchasing is a high priority. Think about traditional corporate procurement: an employee wants to buy something, so Purchasing does a vendor search, and then serves as an intermediary between buyer and seller.

Simplicity: Historically, procurement has been labor-intensive, slow, and painful for both internal employees and external vendors.

By rethinking buying processes, companies can simplify redundant purchasing arrangements and relationships to save big money.

Transparency and efficiency: Raising the visibility of indirect spend (goods and services that company's do not directly incorporate into their products) can save significant cost.

Transforming procurement can achieve three important business results: