RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., June 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- University of Colorado Associate Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer Sandy Hicks addresses her University’s experiences in developing a strategic supplier partner program as a critical element in eProcurement digital transformation on the current edition of JAGGAER’s InsideSpend webinar and podcast series. The University of Colorado’s Procurement Service Center manages approximately one billion in annual spend for the University’s four schools: Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver and the Anschutz Medical Campus.
Hicks delineates all the steps necessary for identifying and developing strategic suppliers, and provides an overview of the value these types of relationships bring to an organization. These include how to leverage an eProcurement system to provide maximum visibility and data insights, identifying potential partners in your supplier network, and developing new efficiencies based on bidirectional data sharing with partners.
“JAGGAER’s solution enables us to pull data from many different sources, including our marketplace, our ERP tool, P cards and travel cards, to get a full view of our spend,” says Sandy Hicks. “It’s important to pick the right partners. We look for innovation, potential enterprise wide impact, mutual goals, and suppliers who are willing to innovate by demonstrating that they are tops in their field,” she adds.
“JAGGAER has been working with the University of Colorado and hundreds of other colleges and university campuses for over two decades, helping build optimized supplier networks and the software to support, interact and manage supplier relationships. Kudos to Sandy Hicks and her team for utilizing our solutions to foster innovation, with the development of internal programs like their strategic supplier program. Her experiences will provide valuable lessons for the entire education industry,” says Robert Bonavito, CEO of JAGGAER.
A link to the webinar can be found here.
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