As a true leader of digitalization in procurement and the ‘Digital Garage’ concept, who better than Cyril Pourrat to kick off the new Spend Sessions series with his view on the major challenges currently facing leading global enterprises as they seek to optimize their spend management models in today’s uncertain economic and geo-political environment.
In conversation with Globality's Seth Catalli, Cyril discusses:
- The 'digital-first' principle on which BT Sourced was founded to manage more than £13 billion of the telecom company's global spend.
- Why he puts 2/3rd of that spend through Globality's autonomous sourcing platform and wants to raise the figure to 100% as the platform now caters for "way more than just indirect".
- How the Platform's generative AI enables his team to create accurate sourcing briefs from just one single sentence.
- The close working relationship he has built with his CFO Simon Lowth and how they measure spend management value.