Procurement Magazine June 2021 | Page 154

TELUS

TELUS

Health ’ s IT Procurement Transformation

"We ' ve built very strategic partnerships that have allowed us to build the fastest , highest quality network in the world "

MARIAM SAAD DIRECTOR OF PROCUREMENT , IT & TECHNOLOGY SERVICES , TELUS standpoint I support IT software , cloud , and the technology business ."
The organisation has a clear goal : to become a software-first , cloud native organisation . Within procurement , key strategic aims are to reduce purchase order cycle time , and drive end-to-end integration across all TELUS platforms . To do this they are leveraging automation , artificial intelligence , and data analytics , all of which are helping them accelerate their digital capabilities .
Saad explains that this digital transformation is delivering four major benefits : reducing time , reducing risk , leveraging more innovation , and creating more actionable insights . " I would say the benefits are reducing time to source , reducing risks , leveraging more innovation
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