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Suppliers & SCM
Safaricom seeks more SaaS partners for small biz push
Diversification-focused Safaricom is looking for strategic alliances with SaaS providers to help it build up a comprehensive portfolio of cloud-based business apps for small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Suppliers & SCM
Vodafone mega RAN tender results coming “soon”
It could be days or weeks, but Vodafone expects to announce “pretty soon” the suppliers for its global radio access network as the procurement process enters the final stages.
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Suppliers & SCM
Vodafone’s scaleup hothouse pivots to address telco ‘risk aversion’
Connected Britain: Tomorrow Street CEO Kenny Graham talks up JV’s role in educating Vodafone execs of need to take risks to leverage emerging technology.
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Suppliers & SCM
BT Sourced turns to AI agent for easier, faster supplier negotiations
BT Group Chief Procurement Officer Cyril Pourrat says “don’t be afraid” of AI as the buying unit employs digital agent from German startup nnamu, saving time and money in supplier negotiations.
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Suppliers & SCM
Vodafone buying chief: ‘creeping protectionism’ destabilising telecom supply chain
Group Procurement Director Ninian Wilson warns that dynamic has changed in Europe, with rising US-China tensions making for difficult decisions in telco buying. Vodafone SCM strategy now prioritising resilience, despite trade-offs…
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Suppliers & SCM
Battle of the bots: BT and Vodafone procurement chiefs forecast AI-driven buying
BT’s Cyril Pourrat and Vodafone’s Ninian Wilson discuss future of procurement, with AI at the core and negotiation bots taking on each other as tech matures. Read more…
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Suppliers & SCM
And then there were three: Telefónica ‘drastically’ simplifies IT supplier base
Capgemini, Inetum, and Minsait said to be recipients of four ‘lots’ of a major IT contract awarded by the Spanish operating business.
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Suppliers & SCM
Telefónica to ‘drastically’ cut IT suppliers from 40 to four or five
Report says operator is close to finalising new IT contracts worth up to €500m.
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Suppliers & SCM
Vodafone video surveillance partner Digital Barriers not rattled by revenue drop, bigger loss
UK-based video surveillance scaleup stood by “positive” long-term growth prospects as it reported significant revenue decline and a bigger loss for fiscal year ending 31 March 2023.
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Suppliers & SCM
EuroTeleSites switches to Sitetracker in bid for efficiency boost
A1 Telekom Austria spinout plans to complete migration of asset management software to a new, “state of the art” platform by the end of 2024.
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Suppliers & SCM
Amdocs wins more Deutsche Telekom business in Austria, Hungary
Magyar Telekom signs up for Amdocs Policy to improve 5G monetisation.
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Suppliers & SCM
Vodafone to add e& to mega RAN tender
Procurement collaboration would be another dimension in strategic alliance between Vodafone and United Arab Emirates-based e&.
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Suppliers & SCM
BT Sourced chief: procuretech Globality now ‘core’ to Group buying
Cyril Pourrat heralds autonomous sourcing specialist as “way beyond indirect”; now handling two-thirds of BT Sourced spend. Foresees procuretech platform consolidation, driven by AI and users…
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Suppliers & SCM
BT’s buying chief Pourrat injects risk management into the Sourced DNA
BT Sourced CEO on how instilling “culture of risk” within organisation’s DNA has enabled it to “react immediately” to supply chain disruptions.
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Suppliers & SCM
SAP trumpets role in transformation gains at BT
ERP player SAP declared success for solution deployments fulfilling commitments made in a strategic partnership signed in 2019.
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Suppliers & SCM
BT taps scaleup partners for carbon-cutting progress
Reworked Division X names Green Tech Innovation Platform alumnus iOpt an “official supplier”, takes ownership of collaborative platform venture.
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Suppliers & SCM
Germany seeks high-risk compromise as operators maintain reliance on Huawei
Vodafone and its peers may get time to wean themselves from Huawei dependency as Germany looks set to water down high-risk restrictions.
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Suppliers & SCM
‘Data is everything’: Quantexa supports Vodafone CX revamp
Vodafone’s Chief Data Officer Miryem Salah says Quantexa partnership is underpinning customer experience transformation project in the UK.
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Suppliers & SCM
Deep dive: Telefónica engages suppliers to fight Scope 3 emissions
Keynoting at Achieving Net Zero in the Telecoms Industry, Daniel Santana lifted the lid on Telefónica’s initiatives to actively tackle emissions across its value chain. Learn more about how this impacts its supply chain, where hundreds have been tagged ‘high risk’, and its ‘circular criteria’, SME outreach, peer comparatives… ...
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Suppliers & SCM
T-Mobile turns to Amdocs for FWA customer support
T-Mobile signs up for Amdocs’ Home Operating System to support 5G Home Internet.