Wins
$10.6 M In Year Savings
in 2018, we were able to achieve $10.6 M in in-year impact across 35 projects.
Microsoft
After 6 long challenging months of negotiations and 6 proposals, Procurement renewed this EA agreement with a 32.5% discount worth $12.9 M annually.
Meredith Mansinne and Kyle Synoweic
IT Procurement added 2 new members to the team in 2018.
$44 million
IT Procurement was able to source this amount of annual spend across 68 initiatives, which is about 21% of the $213 million in addressable IT spend.
2018 Top 3 Savings Projects Delivered with IT Procurement involvement
IGF PC Lease Buy-Out ($1.98M) in AMS where we negotiated a buy-out of 7,500+ assets where the lease has expired,
Cognizant Managed Services + Negotiations in AMS, EMEA & APAC ($1.4M) where we enhanced SLA protection and pricing tiers for application support, and
Cisco Hardware in AMS & EMEA ($1.4M) a CapEx Impact , where the discount was increased to 65% across on all products and streamlined tech standards globally
Argus Enterprise Agreement Renewal
After long negotiations, Procurement was able to renew our EA with Argus and reduce our annual commitment to reduce our cost by $1.1 M.
GTS ELT
In order to ensure #OneGTS and #OneCW alignment, we set a goal to review functional strategies and ongoing Supplier Initiatives with each of these individuals once per quarter.... totaling 36touchpoints in 2018.
Workday License Renewal
Procurement supported Sal Companieh's corporate applications team with the negotiation of a 3 year renewal. Workday is a business critical application deployed globally as our single source of truth for HR & Financial data with single audit trail. Thank you Sal and team for your constant support and partnership.
$8.5 M Run Rate
In 2018, we were able to achieve $8.5 M in run-rate impact across 35 projects.
Engage Salesforce CRM
During 2018, we supported business stakeholders in procurement efforts and managing key relationships. one of these efforts was a product that helps transform client experience by connecting sales and marketing to a robust database. It is a big part of #WhatsNext for C&W
Supplier Business Reviews
One of IT Procurement's goals in 2018 was to engage vendors 16 times through strategic and operational dialogue. We closed out the year with 22.
Biggest lesson learned in 2018
That nothing is possible without the support of our GTS team and leadership.