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Supplier Connectivity-the Key to Procurement Agility
Jon VassTradeshift
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Examples from the high street
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How Big Business Used to Work
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Then This Happened
Computing power doubles every two years!
Why do we need agility?
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• Hyper Competition
• Less predictable markets and events
• Exponential Innovation
…. all because of Moore’s law
So, improving agility is a procurement problem
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But it can feel more like this...
Why isn’t procurementagile?
There are two key reasons...
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How can procurement be more agile if the focus
is on cost only?
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Reason 1: Cost Focus
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How Big Business Used to Work
You lower cost per transaction at the price of agility
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Concrete is cheap, until you want to change it
Change can come in high volumes, just like transactions
How can procurement be more agile
when the connectivity is so complex?
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Reason 2: Connectivity Complexity
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Supply chains are essential, but cause
inertia due to complexity
Every connection needs managment
Source; Stefan Zeeb Blog
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and services for core product
line●Complex
supplier relations
hips All processes are manual
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This business was trading in the year AD 398, located in the Eastern Roman Empire.
Shouldn’t we be able to do supplier connectivity a little better…. than them?
...electronic is not just about faster transmission!
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Not a technology problem… (a Roman one!)
• Differing standards of messaging - no standardisation
• Difficult to get suppliers culturally and technically onboarded- fast!
• Many stakeholders in every network node with different priorities
• Inherent risk in onboarding new suppliers
• Existing technology only allows transaction of the formal data sets (no
real collaboration)
• Every business has to build their own network (or galaxy) - no
sharing/overlap
But true supplier networks - like Tradeshift - do solve these problems
What does the research say?
The Hackett Group
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Innovation is A High Priority
98%
62%
33%
30%
32% 35%
8%
Innovation will become a more important competitive differentiator in the next 5 years
Creating disruptive innovation is an important part of our business strategy
Our company has the right KPIs, processes and incentives in place to meet its innovation goals
strongly agree neutral disagree/strongly disagree
1%
1%
Industry agrees on this one...
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Top 2016 procurement priorities
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Agility Assessment - tools
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The lack of connectivity has led to a broken S2P process No foundation of connectivity
Spend
Analysis
Supplier
Assessment /
Qualification
SourcingContract
ManagementProcurement Receiving
Invoicing &
Payment
Real-time supplier master data missing Not enough
suppliers providing catalog content
Cannot send digital POs to suppliers
Supplier invoice not digital
Goods received… or not?!
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Conclusions
● The world is changing at a pace we haven’t seen before
● Procurement is a fundamental business process that has to be agile
● Cost Focus and Complexity make agility in procurement challenging
● It can be addressed by proactive decision making and using the latest technologies to simplify complexity
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Tradeshift and Supplier Connectivity
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Who we are...
Our Mission is to be the supplier network and platform to connect all the companies in the world on one platform.
We want to provide value to everyone participating in the B2B process.
We believe the future of business software is a flexible and open, cloud-based platform for facilitating document exchange and collaboration.
We strive to deliver a modern, state-of-the art user experience.
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Tradeshift unlocks value from all categories of suppliers
High Value High Volume
High ValueLow Volume
Strategic/non-recurring suppliersComplex transactionsMed-large suppliers
Low ValueLow Volume
Low ValueHigh Volume
Strategic/recurring suppliersCritical transactions
>70% of spend
Small/medium suppliersNon-recurring tail spendHigh cost per transaction
Large suppliersCommodity transactions
Recurring tail spend
Transaction Value
Transaction Volume
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Innovative approach to connecting to suppliers
74% of all case customer suppliers were onboarded within 7 months. Today the total is 97%.
