CLICK TO WATCH : ‘ APPLUS + BRANDCLIP VIDEO ’ 121 incredibly quickly . That sort of implementation will hopefully allow us to be proactive rather than reactive .” Gathering data from the 70 countries across which Applus + operates has been no mean feat for Empez , who faced initial challenges at home and abroad . “ When I joined Applus +, the first thing I found out was that there were no procurement specialists in Spain . The company had an external procurement department that was just processing local purchase orders and invoices , not doing any procurement as such . So , one of the first decisions I made was to internalise that function ,” Empez recounts .
Outside of Spain , she quickly discovered that Applus + operations in most countries lacked a procurement process , and those that did have one weren ’ t standardised . “ We had no spend visibility and no global deal or agreement in place for our fleet . Applus + has over 5,000 vehicles , which represent one of the most important requests for proposal ( RFPs ) in the company , so that was the first thing I tackled ,” says Empez . After reworking Applus + fleet management ,
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