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“ What you need to be able to do as a business is turn that data around in a quick fashion to be able to show the areas where we think we can help them .”
“ This is where we play today . This is the experience we have . That is the conversation you want to be having , with an ability to digest data and pull something that ’ s quick within 24-48 hours as a spend cube .”
Here , Martin highlights the work he has done alongside Mithra-Ai , which allows them to develop spend cubes quickly and efficiently .
“ We had an example of doing that for one of our customers ,” he says . “ Almost overnight we gave them a load of ERP data , they created the taxonomy and they gave us a spend cube .
Martin feels these dashboards – which give procurement teams full customer spend visibility – offer a great advantage , helping to move away from legacy spreadsheets and providing real-time insights and intelligence .
He continues : “ I can sit there with my phone when I ’ m with a customer and tell them ‘ we ’ re saving you X , we think the spend is Y , these are your top 10 suppliers , and these are the next contracts which you ’ ve got coming up that we ’ ll need to work on ’.”
The core offering is Source Hub , which allows customers to interact with the four primary procurement services on offer . This can be project-based procurement , using scale contracts , owning a category from end-to-end or a full outsourcing offering .
This works alongside the training tool , Source Academy , as well as Source Risk , which allows procurement
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