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months Marques has visited every one of the company ’ s manufacturing sites in China , India , Europe and Australia to explain and facilitate the learning needed to get these systems working in an integrated way . Another good example of a vendor that assists integration and the taming of raw data to assist decision making is Mihlfeld & Associates ( M & A ), which makes sense of the huge bulk of logistics data that ’ s available . “ We have more than a million logistics invoices a year so we work with M & A on technology to audit , analyze and pay these invoices – and we continuously improve on that ,” Marques adds .
The plan is delivering . Flowserve
“ I DON ’ T NEED TO TALK ABOUT SUPPLY CHAIN BECAUSE THE BUSINESS IS TALKING ABOUT SUPPLY CHAIN . THIS IS NIRVANA ”
2.0 is on its way . 2017 targets were reached with two months to spare . “ We are not driving an initiative , we are driving a full service strategy . We are driving cross-platform change in areas like indirect spend and logistics . We listened to the business leaders and the VPs , sales and operations people and the plant managers , and we adapted our plans to drive their plants . What ’ s not to like ? On top of that we layered in the corporate initiatives , the cross platform initiatives and then the roadmap that I presented , together with the whole strategy , to the board . They gave us full and unanimous support .”
A major win for strategic sourcing was a drive to rationalize the global payroll . 46 countries were served by 38 different suppliers and internal HR resources , so consolidation was a must . The plan had been to make phased changes , with Europe , the Middle East and Africa sorted out over two years and Latin America following in 2019 . “ I got the guys together , and said why don ’ t we do this all at once ?” Marques adds . The result was unbelievable , enabling not
– Ronaldo Marques , Vice President – Supply Chain , Flowserve