15 years ago, the topic of discussion at the very first Congress that Procurement Leaders organised, was how the function could better manage complex spend.
Looking back now it seems like a much more innocent time for the function.
There had been no global financial crisis and new technologies were emerging that promised to help cut complexity and help the function get control of more areas of spend.
Marco Cappa
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