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was also a great opportunity to impress top management and show how procurement can bring additional value to the business ,” he notes .
STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION
Perhaps one of the biggest transformations , however , is how Turkcell ’ s internal procurement function has evolved .
With over 30 companies under the Turkcell umbrella , the digital operator consolidated its group spending into one centralised procurement team .
“ Consolidating group spending and bringing the different procurement units under one umbrella was one of the toughest challenges we faced ,” notes Türk candidly .
“ However , the company has not only profited from the increased budget , our smaller group companies were also benefited by the unified processes and contracts which helped to deliver savings .”
In the midst of Industry 4.0 , digitisation has also had a ripple effect on the company ’ s procurement function .
The Turkish-based company has created a digital cockpit which monitors the company ’ s supply chain management , sales , network operations , marketing and HR in real time . With the help of this digital cockpit , Turkcell has made dashboards which combine different reporting tools , on the same platform , using different data sources . By developing and customising its current infrastructure , this digital cockpit makes access to information possible in real time monitoring .
On top of this , procurement has also developed a supplier integration project with one of its vendors for real-time order monitoring .
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