Our cover story this month, saw us flying to Dubai to hook up with Dirk Karl, MTN’s Group Executive and Chief Procurement Officer, to see how the rapidly changing Global Sourcing and Supply Chain department is transforming the way the global telco conducts its business.
MTN’s procurement and supply chain strategy is led by the highly experienced Karl, a former Deutsche Telekom man and currently Group Executive and Chief Procurement Officer. Karl was recently recognised by Forbes Middle East in its Global Meets Local Top 50. According to Forbes: “…Under his leadership, the MTN Group has initiated a number of intermediary services agreements with vendors, commercially set up and have added more than 25% in external revenues for the sourcing business. Karl has helped to increase the EBITDA results of the sourcing business by more than 30%. In 2020 he also implemented a new division in data science, developing in-house tools using machine learning and artificial intelligence.”
We met up with Karl at MTN’s Global Sourcing and Supply Chain (GSSC) offices in Dubai to see how the changes in the organisation, underpinned by its Ambition 2025, are transforming the company’s global sourcing strategies.
Elsewhere, we have some major news from ProcureTech regarding its upcoming 2022 ProcureTech100. Plus, we also have five top procurement and supply chain manuals that could revolutionise the way you work.
