467: Why Self-guided Buying Can Enable the Business to Scale Quickly w/ Elisabeth Schlag-Lawrence and Mita Gupta

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The self-service approach has been used in a number of corporate process areas, such as requisitioning, contingent labor, benefits, employee onboarding, mobility, and travel booking. What’s more, it has been in use for decades - it is no longer an untested method. Procurement must catch-up with stakeholder expectations for scalable, digital enablement in purchasing as well.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At Art of Procurement’s Digital Outcomes event in March, session moderator Philip Ideson had the opportunity to speak with Elisabeth Schlag Lawrence, SVP, Head of Procurement Governance & Enabling at Bayer, and Mita Gupta, Senior Vice President at Globality Inc., about this topic.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The central question was whether self-guided buying can enable the business to scale quickly and easily - and how procurement can adjust to the change as well.</span></p>