Construction Magazine April 2018 | Page 113

EUROPE is a commitment to developing deep and long-lasting relationships with vendors . Therefore , the team meets with suppliers at company events to keep them updated with the latest CBRE knowhow .
“ Supplier relationship management ( SRM ) is generally approached with large suppliers only because it takes quite a lot of investment from both sides ,” explains Lee . “ We take a different approach . 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 day-to-day business .”
CBRE ’ s technological ingenuity is exemplified by its leading supplier platform , CBRE MySupplier , and for www . constructionglobal . com 113