Business Chief USA March 2019
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SUPPLY CHAIN<br />
“We have deployed<br />
technology-enabled<br />
solutions at every stage<br />
of the procurement<br />
value stream, with<br />
the objective to<br />
reduce redundancies,<br />
and automate and<br />
streamline processes”<br />
—<br />
Nirav Mehta,<br />
Vice President of Global Procurement<br />
at Edgewell Personal Care (EPC)<br />
strong fundamentals in place for the<br />
business to succeed long-term, including<br />
strong personal care brands under its<br />
umbrella, Mehta is enthusiastic about<br />
the role procurement and supply chain<br />
is playing in its transformation.<br />
“We like to call ourselves a small big<br />
company. It also describes our culture<br />
and our entrepreneurial mindset to<br />
a great extent. Like a startup, perhaps,<br />
but with the resources of a large<br />
organization,” he says wistfully. “We<br />
are not so big that the bureaucracy and<br />
politics of decision making, or lack of<br />
empowerment can stifle our growth<br />
and innovation. I believe this is a great<br />
asset that we have, and we try to<br />
leverage it. Our company’s motto, in<br />
simple words, is ‘challenge to win’. We<br />
consider ourselves challengers to our<br />
competitors in the industry.”<br />
Technology continues to accelerate<br />
the transformation of every industry,<br />
and the consumer-packaged goods<br />
(CPG) and personal care sector is no<br />
exception. Whether it is e-commerce<br />
or direct-to-consumer type business<br />
models. EPC was previously geared<br />
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