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Vodafone supply chain transformation programme. Target was to reduce the company’s external network infrastructure procurement spend through economies of scale. Previously, the 17 operating companies each operated a separate procurement function. Key element of the programme was to pull together the operating companies into a single global procurement ‘community’ The central procurement company acts as the centre for strategic procurement across all categories (network, IT, services and handsets). The company buys from suppliers on behalf of the group and supplies the local operating companies. In 2009 a survey by the International Association for Contract and Commercial Management.