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Procurement 4.0 will change dramatically “what we buy” – and “how we buy”. Leading Swiss Procurement Professionals from flagships like @ABB, @Amcor, @Glencore, @Roche or @Daniel Swarovski discussed with us during our @h&z Management Consulting “Procurement 4.0” book release at the historical @Hotel Widder in Zurich on May 4th.
@Ralf Schulz, Partner at h&z, and co-author of the book described the major impact of Industry 4.0 on the procurement function. “Procurement will increase its corporate value significantly as an innovation ’catalyst’ by linking suppliers value contribution to ensure market leadership and company growth. In a time where external value creation will reach up to 70–80% procurement will more than ever be a key C-Level function.”
@Jochen Weyandt, Executive Vice President and Head of Business Unit Automotive Solutions @ OC Oerlikon AG, explained that it is key to identify the engineering ideas of the supplier base and to work permanently together on innovations. He proclaimed #SEI (supplier enabled innovation) is key to success and his first commandment for data analytics is:, “you have to keep your master data clean first – before you can enter into harvesting your data treasures”.
Deep insights were then followed by inspiring discussions with all participants. To discover the strategy of Ralf Schulz to keep up with the latest challenges of digitalization.