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EUROPE suppliers that we work with in Europe . We wouldn ’ t be able to manage such a large network without our supplier portal . This is a problem that many other companies have , and nobody ’ s solved it until now .
“ This means we ’ re putting decisionmaking back into the hands of our client teams rather than a centralised procurement function making the decisions ,” she continues . “ We ’ re giving business managers the tools they need to make the right decisions around which suppliers to use .”
COMMITTED TO COMPLIANCE Compliance is one of the most deeprooted challenges in the supply chain discipline today and with a broad footprint spanning across continents , CBRE has ensured this

“ We build relationships with all suppliers , small , medium , or large . It ' s not a process , it ' s not SRM in its theoretical term , it ' s about how we deal with suppliers on a dayto-day basis . SRM to us is a real living and breathing philosophy that everybody is involved in , it ' s not just a process run by the procurement function , it ' s our dayto-day business ”

RACHEL LEE , VP , GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSFORMATION
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