Customer Case Study – Nick Verkroost (Canopy) and Anna Williams (Unispace)

The Procurement Software Podcast

Host James Meads is joined by two guests, this week. Nick Vekroost is the CEO of procurement tech company Canopy. Anna Williams is head of procurement at the office design and build organisation Unispace, where Canopy has been successfully implemented. This is a rare opportunity to speak to a procurement tech provider and one of that provider's clients at the same time. We'll talk about their implementation journey, share their successes and hopefully give you some ammo for making a business case to your CFO or CEO.

Customer Case Study – Nick Verkroost (Canopy) and Anna Williams (Unispace)

Timestamps 2:36 The challenges and advantages of working with a smaller organization vs a larger company.

• Anna's journey in the early stage tech space.
• Challenges and advantages of working with a smaller organization.
• A huge learning curve.
• Implementing canopy as a solution.

7:56 What is the reach of Unispace? How many staff will have access to the data?

• The reach of Canopy within Unispace.
• How many staff will eventually have access to Canopy?

10:05 The supply chain is so critical to everybody's business.

• No business would survive without a supply chain.
• The most important supplier in 2020.
• Accounting for the system and building structures.
• Integrating with different ERP systems.

14:43 Canopy is like an intelligence layer that sits on top of ERP.

• ERP systems are rigid and need to be flexible.
• Working with an API or third-party system.
• Granular details of the Canopy platform.

19:46 Risk management and Unispace

• What Unispace is all about.
• Evolving towards a full-stack supplier risk management tool.

22:23 Risk and the Canopy platform.

• Risk is at the heart of every single profile on Canopy.
• How Canopy connects with third party credit agencies and risk management platforms.
• Bridging the gap between cloud-based and on-premise solutions.
• The journey of using Canopy.

28:54 When we say data, what do we mean?

• What Canopy means by data, and why they break it down.
• How Canopy works with customers.

And that wraps up another episode of the Procuretech Podcast. Thanks to Nick and Anna for joining us today, and big thanks to you for listening. We'll be back at the same time next week, so see you there! If you want to learn more about our guests, Canopy, Unispace or Procurement Software, check out the useful links below.

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