Pierre Laprée TITLE : CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER COMPANY : SPENDHQ LOCATION : ATLANTA , GEORGIA
Pierre Laprée TITLE : CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER COMPANY : SPENDHQ LOCATION : ATLANTA , GEORGIA
Pierre Laprée is the Chief Product
Officer at strategic Procurement Platform SpendHQ . He joined with the company ’ s July 2022 acquisition of Per Angusta which he founded in 2012 and served as its CEO . Pierre served as Procurement Director and right hand of the global CPO at The Adecco Group . He is a frequent speaker and author on procurement and finance .
to more and more duplicate records and an inability to have a 360 degree view of all information related to a supplier .”
Laprée refers to this all as the ‘ big data problem ’ where the spend , supplier and enterprise data suffer from fragmentation , disaggregation , and lack of connectivity from a central , reliable , source of truth , such as a spend analysis solution .
A patchwork of procurement solutions are put in place to try and manage the problem , but this can have the opposite effect . “ We have observed firsthand that many procurement teams face difficulties in fully utilising the available data ,” he says . “ The data remains fragmented , messy and requires extensive manual intervention to bring procurement data , especially spend data , into a usable state .”
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