THE CHALLENGE Unable to Support Unique Sourcing Needs with Homegrown Tool Brunswick was using a homegrown internal data warehouse system. As a common failure point, most groups, including procurement, found the internal system was challenging to use. The situation was made worse when IT stopped supporting the system, making it extremely difficult to get any utility out of it. With seven disparate financial systems within Brunswick, procurement found it virtually impossible to retrieve credible procurement data using spreadsheets and manual analysis. Moreover, since Brunswick operates several different divisions, the homegrown system was a huge barrier to supporting the unique sourcing needs for each line of business. Nancy Jorgensen, Director of Indirect Sourcing and C

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