automised onboarding and maintenance of products with increased automisation ; with automatic integration of different data pools , industry databases and so on .
Secondly , they looked into supplier negotiations , which is all about Ahlsell ’ s approach to strengthening supplier relationships . Then they looked at traditional contract management and risk management – “ both increasingly important ”, according to Chinell .
“ So we digitalised all the self-assessments that we would traditionally send out to our
PWC ’ s global procurement survey showed that besides cost reduction , digitalisation was of increasing importance , and it came in as the third most important strategic priority among procurement departments
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