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making this a truly lean company .”
Attention has now turned to a vendor optimisation programme . Here the target is to knock a nought off the current 4,000 strong vendor base , with 80 percent of the spend focused in between 50 and 80 key partners . “ We are taking this journey hand in hand with these vendors because we want them to reap the benefits of cutting out manual processes and communicating effectively over systems that talk to one another . Our vision is to be able to transact seamlessly with these partners , with minimal human intervention .”
The supplier community needed some convincing to get them on board . Carey and Harrold travelled the length and breadth of Australia with a roadshow at which every vendor had the opportunity to learn at a face to face session and have their questions answered . Some reluctance was to be expected . Suppliers often have to pay fees to access client systems , and even have a percentage of each invoice passed to them . With that in mind , Coupa is free to Ausdrill ’ s vendors .
Ausdrill has become a more dynamic company at all levels . It is more competitive . This is a business on a never-ending quest for improvement . By the end of this year all the Australian businesses should be equipped with the hardware they need to move out of paper-based requisitioning and getting used to completing a purchase in minutes
68 November 2016