EDGEWELL PERSONAL CARE
“ We want to align with suppliers that really share our vision and values and to include more active participation from suppliers in terms of sustainability” — Nirav Mehta, Vice President of Global Procurement at Edgewell Personal Care (EPC)
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its digital foundations to provide the right
possible and streamline processes.”
level of data integrity and governance.
“We have digitized our sourcing
“If you don’t have sound fundamentals
capabilities to a great extent by imple-
to build upon, you can easily end up
menting new technological solutions
spending millions of dollars on some
for Spend Analytics, eRFx, Contracting
technology and spinning your wheels but
and Procure to Pay solutions. We are
not get the most out of it,” reflects Mehta.
also looking to transform our vendor
“We have deployed technology-enabled
life cycle management,” says Mehta.
solutions at every stage of the procure-
“What constitutes the onboarding of
ment value stream, with the objective
new suppliers, vendor master automa-
to reduce redundancies, automate where
tion and self-service, to performance
MARCH 2019