Jumpstart to Digital Procurement: Pushing the Value Envelope in a New Age [Hardcover]

This book shows how digital transformation has the power to revolutionize the way procurement operates, and discusses how especially buyer decisions are empowered through artificial intelligence. Depending on a companys strategy all desired outcomes are possible, including doubling savings, innovation, sustainability, quality, speed, and halve the risk. Jumpstart to Digital Procurement is a hands-on guide on how companies can grasp the opportunities offered by digital transformation.

A New Concept of Procurement.- Value: Whatever Matters to the Business.- Enablers: What Really Makes It Work.- Digital Foundation: The Basis of all our Decisions.- Finally, a View on Technology.- Utopia versus Dystopia: A Brief Look at Decades Ahead.

Wolfgang Schnellb?cher is a Managing Director and Partner of the Boston Consulting Group in Germany, and leads the procurement practice in Europe and the Middle East. Over the last 12 years, he has been working with leading procurement organizations across industries to generate savings, help streamline existing processes and incorporate new technologies and ideas. Here Wolfgang`s special focus has been on giving Procurement a wider mandate to enable significantly increased savings but equally strong improvements in innovation, sustainability, speed or quality. Wolfgang`s doctoral thesis applied the game theory to procurement negotiations, and showed the difference between face-to-face and digital negotiation set-ups. Based on his thesis he has built the AI Negotiation Coach as first solution bringing artificial intelligence to life in procurement. The big passions in his personal£”