STM - Procurement and Travel-A Success Story
A growing trend seen in the business travel industry is the shift in the reporting structure of many corporate travel managers to the corporate procurement department. A few travel managers report they spend all their time explaining that buying travel is significantly different than purchasing paper clips. And more than a few corporate procurement departments do "get it" and work harmoniously with travel. Rather than characterizing this new integration as a burdensome process with a labyrinthine series of steps, many travel managers are lauding procurement's benefits of process structure, analytical rigor, facility for auditing and best practice application, which may have been absent before in travel purchasing. Learn the critical success factors that produced a collaborative relationship at Deloitte & Touche between Travel and Procurement and ultimately increased value for the firm.

Presenters:
Mike McMahon, Chief Procurement Officer, Deloitte & Touche
Margaret Moynihan, Director, Global Conference/Travel Groups, Deloitte & Touche