Business Chief Europe Magazine December 2018 | Page 102

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This has helped to foster more robust and strategic sourcing process . “ Our procurement team is fully involved from the beginning of the process and can lead the sourcing of each package . It ’ s fundamental for the turnkey business so we can define the external cost of each project and maintain a sustainable margin . I would say that negotiation of cost and risk management are , for sure , two key aspects that they keep in consideration .” In order to be even more effective today the company decided to restructure the global operations , moving towards a supply chain and construction focused organisation spanning , procurement , manufacturing , logistics , supply chain planning and construction .
For Ansaldo STS , procurement is organised in a global matrix structure under Filippo Fanfani ’ s leadership . On one hand , roles are organised by regions and on the other axle the global commodities . This matrix responsibility provides the reasonable balance between global efficiency and local effectiveness as well as a proper
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