Discover how Mars is evolving their GPO roles from operational oversight to strategic leadership, driving measurable savings across the organization. This session delves into a transformative program focused on preventing cash leakage within the Invoice to Cash cycle. Through hands-on initiatives within Global Business Services, dedicated project teams analyze end-to-end processes, uncovering front-end business issues and identifying policy and procedural gaps that impact cash flow. Leveraging insights from tools process mining tools, this team continuously feeds improvements back into the GPO framework. Join this session to gain insights from their journey and learn how a proactive, data-driven approach can enhance your company’s financial resilience.

Key Takeaways:

• Approaches for empowering GPOs to drive strategic cost-saving initiatives with end-to-end visibility.
• Insights into building cross-functional project teams to resolve front-end business issues.
• Best practices for creating policy and process frameworks that support sustained cash flow improvements.