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Sunoco outsources indirect purchasing to IBM

31 Aug 2010

Source: Supply Management

Petroleum manufacturer Sunoco is set to hand over indirect procurement to global service firm IBM as part of a wide-reaching outsourcing deal. The companies said that IBM would improve a number of Sunoco’s back office processes by using its experience in the oil and gas industry. Sunoco said the deal would enable it to “focus more of its resources on critical growth initiatives”.

IBM is due to provide services to Sunoco from its global operations centres, enabling Sunoco to better manage its improvement and maintenance of application software, finance and accounting, and indirect procurement processes. In February, IBM won a US $74.4 millioneight-year deal to upgrade the procurement system used by US federal agencies and their suppliers.

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