CPO, Karoline Dygas joined Nordstrom in 2019, where, among other things, she supports all of the organization’s indirect spend. At Nordstrom, indirect spend is everything outside of the merchandise sold in the stores. Prior to Nordstrom, Dygas spent five years at Starbucks, where she led the Global Sourcing and Store Development Supply Chain, and before that she was senior director of strategic sourcing at Walgreens.
Suplari Blog
How Procurement Impacts EBITDA Initiatives for Private Equity Firms
Procurement transformation and utilization is a significant EBITDA improvement initiative for Private Equity (PE) firms.
Suplari Announces Integration of Industry-Leading Financial Health Ratings into Suplari Spend Intelligence Cloud in Partnership with RapidRatings
Procurement and finance professionals can now mitigate supplier financial risk through a new early warning system that combines Suplari’s AI-based spend insights and collaboration tools with RapidRatings’ Financial Health Ratings
Presentation: CPO’s – How to Leverage Spend Agility to Get Your Raise
Suplari CEO Nikesh Parekh Discusses why the CPO and procurement function are critical to driving profitability in a post-COVID business environment and builds a case for why CPOs should leverage this opportunity to drive more value and improve their earnings potential.
Broadening Procurement’s Impact: How Telecom Giant BT Drives the Bottom Line and Corporate Resiliency
Profitability is more important than ever — and procurement leaders are more strategic than ever. Procurement is no longer just a cost center, a spender of money made by others in the enterprise. With the right tools and methodology, procurement can maximize every dollar of profit and discover every dollar of cost savings, positioning them to be critical drivers of the bottom line.
Suplari Agile Contracts Makes Contract Lifecycle Management Smarter, More Efficient With AI-powered Predictive Analytics
Introducing Suplari Agile Contracts, a solution that gives enterprise procurement teams a steady stream of predictive insights for monitoring and managing their full inventory of active supplier contracts. Suplari Agile Contracts connects automated contract processes to enterprise spend and supplier data, adding workflow, and delivering actionable business intelligence that alerts decision-makers to the best ‘next’ … Read More
British Telecom Announces BT Sourcing
British Telecom Announces BT Sourcing Exciting news from CPO Cyril Pourrat at Suplari, Inc. customer BT. BT has set up a new innovative, AI-led procurement company called BT Sourced. Suplari, Inc. is the core AI-driven intelligence engine for BT‘s procurement team. We are so proud and happy to be with Cyril Pourrat, Adam Brown Siddharth (Sid) Pandey on this amazing journey.
Effective Contract Management Across the Enterprise is Critical….And Easier To Do Than You Think
When you peel back the Procurement onion, contracts are often an afterthought or the last piece to add to your Procurement Stack of software. According to McKinsey “the majority of organizations invest relatively limited resources in contract development and vendor management.” A third and equally important pillar of under investment is contract management. Up to … Read More
How to Leverage Analytics for M&A Procurement Synergies.
Listen to Greg Tennyson, Head of Global Corporate Services at VSP, and Suplari CEO Nikesh Parekh as they discuss Mergers and Acquisitions in the context of analytics tools.
Suplari Launches New Collaboration Software for Finance and Procurement, Enabling Distributed Teams to Set Goals, Manage Projects and Track Savings
SEATTLE—Nov. 12, 2020—Suplari, the Spend Agility™ company, today announced new tools in its Spend Intelligence Cloud that help distributed finance and procurement teams set goals, manage projects, and collaborate together to optimize spending, cash flow and compliance.