Procurement Magazine December 2024 | Page 50

» I walk out of a lot of those meetings and I go back to our Head of Project Engineering and I say , I ’ ve just come back from Australia , I ’ ve just come back from Singapore and in 70 % of those , they were asking this very specific question about how to identify who the suppliers were locally in Australia , they ’ re trying to really direct sources to their local indigenous suppliers . So whether it ’ s a regulatory or geographic goal or something about that material in the chain , that ’ s what we can take back and try to build .

» As any technology company will tell you , you can ’ t do everything . That ’ s where I like an event like this where you get to know some of the other providers that are out there . Just yesterday at the Global Procurement and Supply Chain Awards we saw some of the upstart technology providers who are focused on supply chain risk . It ’ s really about the ecosystem of providers . In the sustainability space EcoVadis is a player that came up quickly to solve a need .

“Technology ultimately is about data and getting access to data is hard . You don ’ t always have suppliers who are willing to provide that data ”