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Innovations in Supplier Performance: Supplier Management: Step One in Microsoft's Digital Transformation Journey
Microsoft successfully transformed its supplier management, product development, sourcing, and supply chain processes from disjointed to one fully-integrated and seamless design-to-deliver process for Surface, Xbox and other hardware products. Now, Microsoft's product development team has early visibility into the cost impact of design decisions. In addition, Microsoft reduced COGS by millions and accelerated its product development cycle, as the time required for the engineering to supplier management handoff decreased significantly. Learn how Microsoft and its partner SAP Ariba co-innovated to make this possible.
About the Future of Sourcing Awards
The 2018 inaugural Future of Sourcing Awards program recognized organizations that showed innovation, leadership and transformation in categories critical to the sourcing industry. The Awards brought together some of the brightest minds, the best insights and the most relevant topics and created a truly remarkable experience. In eight categories our esteemed judges selected three finalists from many innovations in sourcing, outsourcing, third party management, supplier performance, digitization, governance/compliance, talent management, and sustainability.
Each nominee was invited to discuss their innovations in a podcast for The Sourcing Industry Landscape as well as a Ted-style Talk at the SIG 2018 Fall Global Summit. Finally, each nominee was asked to provide a handout for their Talk.
Sourcing Management
Performance Management
Third Party Management