And Sourcing Excellence requires (Strategic Sourcing) Decision Optimization.

As the Sourcing Optimization Grand Master Paul Martyn has clearly stated in his post on how Procurement is at an Inflection Point:

• AI won’t fix Procurement.
• Dashboards won’t fix Procurement.
• Better Data won’t even fix Procurement.

ONLY structured, modelled decision making that gets executed in the practice of true Sourcing Excellence will.

And that structured decision making will be based on true multi-objective sourcing optimization that takes costs, risks, and goals into account to help you, the intelligent human, make the right decision that a dumb machine will never see.

And if you want to find out how that’s done, reach out to the Sourcing Optimization Grand Master himself who has saved Billions in his career WITHOUT increasing risk, liability, or complexity and find out how your organization could be the next to save millions (upon millions) while making less risky and more valuable decisions.