“Signify has been engaged in an intensive digitalization program for several years. Our goal is to use state-of-the-art tools, processes, and experts to transform the role of procurement toward more focus on supplier innovation, cost efficiency, and sustainability, with a high degree of automation. Procurement has been a support function …

“I work with hundreds of machine shops across the US, anywhere from 30-person shops to 300-person. And they’re all having the same problem. They all have a sign out front: ‘now hiring machinists.’ And no one is going to get around this problem without doing things differently.”