This week we’re looking at why Procurement suffers from dodgy data - how it affects the function and what we can do to solve it.

Rich is joined by Susan Walsh - the Classification Guru and Natasha Brown Group Procurement Director of Harland & Wolff.

We cover:

• 0:46 - Why does Procurement suffer from dodgy data?
• 10:53 - What are the key steps in cleansing your data?
• 13:11 - Examples of where poor data has affected procurement decision making
• 15:43 - Importance of being data driven as a core procurement soft skill
• 17:46 - AI vs humans in the next phase of data management
• 21:58 - How do we foster a data driven culture?
• 25:03 - What advice would you give to Procurement teams that are struggling with legacy data?
• 29:56 - How do we influence other parts of the business to get the data we need? 
• 35:43 - The panel's data wishes 
• 39:00 - Data dumping grounds