Zalando - How to introduce Procurement into an Agile Culture?

Zalando - Germany

Alejandro told the audience from quite a different story introducing more Professionalism in Procurement into a purely Agile Company like Zalando.

The recording

To hear Alejandro’s talk jump right to 40:25 in the video.

The slide deck

Zalando - How to introduce Procurement into an Agile Company? from Mirko Kleiner

Our Conclusions

• Zalando is a 10 Years old Startup with more than 10,000 Employees, which is already Agile as an organization and introducing more “structure” in Procurement needs to be adapted to the current culture & mindset

• Also at Zalando the Procurement has applied Scrum in their commercial organization, while swarming cross-functional e.g. for making negotions more effective, etc.

• Zalando also applied agile practices such as Scrum in development of their P2P Implementation with awesome impact to time-to-market and customer satisfaction

More about the Speaker

• Alejandro Basterrechea Head of Procurement Excellence Zalando

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