Business Chief Europe Magazine February 2020 | Page 21

21 “We ’ ve developed a range of inhouse bespoke solutions in terms of technology ”

— Ian Jones , Head of Procurement , Arriva UK Bus a comprehensive project tracking tool , running circa 100 projects every year . This supports programme management , business communications , financial reporting and automated MI . It ’ s a key conduit between finance and procurement portraying the breakdown of the value that ’ s delivered by region .” Such bespoke equipment includes a sophisticated spend categorisation tool and an engineering parts usage anomaly tracking tool . “ The spend categorisation tool is intelligent enough to
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