“akirolabs enables us to manage the heterogeneous requirements of all Bertelsmann divisions whilst maximizing the transparency across our jointly defined category strategies”
Dirk Kunz
SVP Group IT Sourcing
Challenge
Solution
Impact
Bertelsmann creates jointly defined category strategies in collaboration with 7 divisions in akiro and continues to expand the scope across the whole Group.
The collaboration with a growing number of stakeholders has improved category strategies significantly, making them better informed, more focussed, more resilient and, most importantly, more valuable.
The "single version of the truth" approach of akiro has enabled Bertelsmann to provide management as well as stakeholders with transparency at any time. In addition, the integrated approval flows ensure traceability.
akiro serves as a change enabler for all maturity levels across the different Bertelsmann Group divisions. Depending on the need, it is seamlessly applied to provide structure, as a training tool and/or an efficiency boost.
akiro has harmonized Bertelsmann's strategic sourcing process, producing meaningful, comparable outputs across categories and divisions.
akiro serves as Bertelsmann's category strategy knowledge repository for both the procurement/sourcing function and its stakeholders. Due to its intuitive structure, required information is found in a matter of seconds and always up-to-date.
Conclusion
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