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How Procurement Can Enable Insurance Companies to Deliver Value to Claims Management

Posted: 08/22/2020 - 02:36
Procurement’s key metric is vendors’ value contribution, not cost.

At U.S. insurance companies, policyholders’ claims represent 70% to 75% of the total cost. This makes complete sense, of course, since policyholder benefits are the sole reason why anyone buys insurance products and services.

The problem is, at insurance companies, procurement is limited to supporting indirect spend — real estate, marketing, finance, etc. — which accounts for less than 10% of the organization’s total costs and severely limits our ability to provide substantive value.

Rising Star Interview: Morgan Gandee

Posted: 09/21/2019 - 06:08

How did you get into this field – was it purposeful or by accident?

At Goodyear, my first engineering manager was promoted into the Global Purchasing organization. Within a short period of time he gave me the opportunity to join his team as a buyer where I became hooked on procurement, negotiations and sourcing and I have never left the profession.  
 

In what ways do you hope to influence or transform the industry?

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