Closer ties with IT lead to improved spend analysis
28 August 2012
Purchasers should forge closer ties with their IT departments to make sure their systems work more effectively, according to a leading analyst.
Pierre Mitchell, vice-president at AMR Research, told the eWorld Purchasing and Supply conference in London that IT systems often left purchasers unable to effectively analyse their spend and supplier quality, meaning they were unable to control what they couldn’t measure.
In the conference keynote speech, he said purchasers needed to be empowered to take...