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AS SPRINT’S CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER (CPO), MARIANO LEGAZ SITS IN A VERY HOT SEAT INDEED. There’s no more competitive or cut-throat business than the US telecommunications market, in which familiar names like AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile present figures to claim their network is the largest or fastest growing

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ariano Legaz has inhabited the frenetically evolving world of telecoms since he joined Verizon International in Argentina in 1995, at which time he was still a student. He moved to the United States in 2000, and it’s significant that he remained with Verizon until his appointment at Sprint in April 2016.

He brought with him a deep understanding of the business, having served in senior roles in planning and engineering. He eventually became Verizon’s director of capital planning and analysis, managing an annual budget of $17bn. It was not until 2009 that he

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put on a specifically supply-chain hat as vice president of Strategic Sourcing and subsequently VP of global supply chain services.

Legaz’s appointment was a key component in Sprint’s turnaround strategy. For 10 years, until 2015, the company had been losing customers and staff, burning cash and watching its margins dwindle. Since Japan’s SoftBank acquired Sprint in 2013 for $21 bn, and despite billions of dollars in investment by its new parent, Sprint continued to struggle and lay off employees.

“We think of 2015 as our

recovery year; last year

we call our comeback year” – Mariano Legaz, Senior Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer

Mariano Legaz Senior Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer Mariano Legaz is senior vice president and chief procurement officer at Sprint Corporation.

He is responsible for Sourcing, Procurement, Supply Chain management, and Real Estate operations across the organization. Under his leadership, Sprint is maximizing supplier relationships, driving operational efficiencies, and enabling their winning strategies.

The transformation To achieve this, tightening up the supply chain management function was essential, and Legaz is happy with the company’s progress so far – his organization has contributed substantially to the company’s recovery, but he is the first to recognize a shared effort.

“Over the last two years or so we have made great strides and have produced significant results,” Legaz says. “First, we have started growing again. We think of 2015 as our recovery year; last year we call our comeback year because we won back business, showed growth, and became cash positive for the

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Before joining Sprint Corporation, Mr. Legaz was the Verizon Wireless Florida Regional President, where he was responsible for sales, operations, marketing, distribution, customer service, and financial performance. During his 20 years at Verizon, Mr. Legaz also served as Senior Vice President, Supply Chain Services; Vice President, Sourcing; Director, Capital Planning and Analysis, as well as several other roles in the network technology organization, both in domestic and international markets.

Legaz holds an engineering degree in Electrical/Electronic Science and a postgraduate degree in Telecommunications from the Catholic University of Cordoba in Argentina. In addition, he received his EMBA in Economics from Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.

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Mariano Legaz – the career path to the CPO’s office • Educated at Universidad Católica de Córdoba in Argentina where in 1997 he obtained degrees in Electronics, Engineering and Telecommunications.

• Moved on to Southern Methodist University’s Cox Business School to earn an executive MBA in 2003.

• Between 1995 and 2015 worked at Verizon, progressing through director of Capital Planning and Analysis; VP Sourcing; senior VP of Supply Chain Services; and President of the Florida Region.

• Appointed Chief Procurement Officer at Sprint, responsible for Sourcing, Procurement, Supply Chain Management and Real Estate Operations. Legaz says, “My job involves enabling the business while driving operational efficiencies, reducing costs, and maximizing supplier relationships – and getting better every day!”

Lean credentials: Married and a father of three, Legaz is an accomplished distance runner and has participated in several marathons. Among his most recent achievements was a top three finish in his age group at the October 2016 Waddell and Reed Kansas City Marathon.

first time in a decade or more.”

Customer churn - the ratio of customers switching away to new customers gained - is the key indicator in this business. In 2014 Sprint lost 1.5mn (net) customers, but in 2016 it got them back and gained 930,000 (net), reversing the negative churn.

“The fact is that in two years we have gone from losing more than a million to gaining almost a million,” he adds. “Put another way, that was almost a 2.5mn-customer swing, and that is remarkable in our business.”

Sprint’s rating has improved, he

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says, and it is rated the number-one voice network across the country.

“Previously we were losing customers at a rate of 2% a month, but in 2016 our churn fell to about 1.5% and it is still coming down.”

Just as important, brand perception surveys have raised Sprint to a four-year high, leading all competitors in places as diverse as Colorado Springs, Cincinnati, Portland and St. Louis. So much has been achieved already, and remember this is only year two of a five-year transformation program.

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Already Sprint has shown it can defy the odds and execute one of America’s most iconic turnarounds, not only in reversing its customer decline but in also now being recognized as one of the top places to work, according to The Atlanta Journal Constitution.

The value of procurement One of the pillars of the transformation was necessarily cost reduction.

Instead of the $30bn the company spent in 2013, it now spends about $22bn. “That means we’ve achieved a better than 20% reduction in our costs

during a time of growth. That is what I mean when I call it a transformation!”

Although he is not minimizing the part his organization has played in this achievement, Legaz emphasizes that it has to be a company-wide effort with every individual and every department playing its part.

“Throughout my career I was always being asked about how to validate procurement against cost savings value and efficiency. At Sprint the same questions also arise. Naturally we measure our internal productivity in light of negotiating savings and the

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Bottom lines HIGHLIGHTS FROM SPRINT’S TRANSFORMATION • Fiscal year 2016 net operating revenues of $33.3bn grew for the first time in three years, including fiscal fourth-quarter net operating revenues of $8.5bn, which grew 6% year-over-year.

• Fiscal year 2016 operating income of $1.8bn and Adjusted EBITDA of nearly $10bn. o Highest operating income in 10 years and highest Adjusted EBITDA in nine years (22% growth year-over-year). o $2.1bn of year-over-year reductions in cost of service and selling, general, andadministrative expenses in fiscal year 2016. o Fiscal fourth quarter operating income of $470mn and Adjusted EBITDA of $2.7bn.

• Fiscal year 2016 net cash provided by operating activities of $4.2bn and adjusted free cash flow of $607mn.

internal processes of procurement, how we drive efficiency and the like.

But when it comes to the precise savings, I can just look at our annual report and see operating expenses going down by a billion to $2bn every year, so there is no doubt that the job is being done! Procurement is just one component of this transformation.

I do not by any means try to say we are driving all of those savings.

Clearly a lot of savings are being

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generated at the company level, and we can happily point to those efforts and say we are a part of that.”

Legaz says procurement has become an integral part of the decision-making process, a truly strategic function, embedded in the company to help balance its needs and expenses. That said, and despite his humility, in just over a year he has made identifiable and measurable improvements.

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For the first time in the company’s recent history, we were tracking sourcing savings at the project level and we were also tracking all the cost-reduction initiatives when negotiating new contracts.”

This also meant a change in the

“We’ve achieved a better than 20% reduction in our costs at a time of growth. That is what I mean when I call it a transformation!”

– Mariano Legaz, Senior Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer

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way Sprint acquired services or products. “We started tracking all of that at the project level,” Legaz adds. “We now have very good metrics. We can measure how much we are saving by organization, by project, and even by individual.”

Creating these metrics gave Legaz visibility over the company’s costs.

Additionally, he introduced regular meetings with key executives across the business to assess current demand, their forecasts, and the major

projects they had in hand. He strongly believes that his organization should support finance, marketing, HR and so on. Because traditional procurement is no longer a major driver of value, the relationship should be hands-off.

“The procurement process doesn’t need to be exclusively led by the procurement team – we stay in touch, but we don’t always need to get deeply involved,” Legaz

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says. He is proud of the team he has formed over the last year, taking the opportunity provided by natural attrition to refresh the talent. It is now as lean and efficient as any.

“I can put our team against comparable global teams and we will definitely come in the top quintile,” Legaz says. “With about 200 people handling procurement operations and also inventory management and logistics, we manage over $10bn of annual spend.”

Note: This does not include the real estate side of the business,

which he also oversees. It’s a very active space as the company builds new stores across the country and converts the portfolio of former RadioShack stores it acquired from the latter’s restructuring. Much of the acquisition processes involved here are outsourced as Sprint increases its high street presence in under-represented locations.

“We’re going after specific target areas to increase penetration in places we think we can do best – the market is responding really well to the quality of service we are now

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THE CPO CONTRIBUTIONS TO SPRINT’S TRANSFORMATION

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Substantial (multimillion-dollar) savings from the negotiations of Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment. By working with several vendors and internal partners, the Sourcing team was able to produce a detailed cost breakdown of RAN elements. This effort, coupled with group benchmark exercises and bundle renegotiations, allowed the team to secure savings.

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Issued an RFP to six suppliers for Sprint’s on-site health clinic and pharmacy business. After the RFP was complete, the savings amounted to 9%. To drive further savings Sprint performed an e-Auction. During the live e-Auction vendors bid against each other, as they were able to see what the leading bid was, and decide whether to lower their bid in order to win the bid package. The e-Auction drove an additional 13% saving.

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Utility Rates Optimization – the Sourcing team obtained bids and negotiated agreements with alternate energy providers in 13 states and Washington, D.C., that offer deregulated electricity. The reduced utility rates will result in a 20% multimillion-dollar annual saving with the new suppliers.

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Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO). Sprint issued an RFP to find a third party to assist with sourcing and recruiting efforts related to the aggressive expansion of the Sprint retail store footprint. The RFP was issued to six RPO firms.

Negotiated a cost per hire rate, for the RPO, which is 35% lower than the internal cost per hire.

ADM Agreements. Sourcing achieved between annualized rate reductions between 5% and 10% for Sprint’s outsourced applications development and maintenance (ADM) contracts.

Savings were achieved by benchmarking the onshore and offshore rates and using the data to negotiate and improve the rates with these outsourcing vendors.

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offering,” Legaz says. However, real estate that supports network and transmission towers is all managed by a dedicated in-house team.

Clarity through analysis Legaz’s team is now turning its attention to analytics as it revamps its spend analysis process, collecting, cleansing, classifying and analyzing expenditure data with an eye to cutting procurement costs further.

At the same time, they are improving efficiency and monitoring compliance.

To this end, the team is creating a new ‘spend cube’ to give great insight into the relationship between commodity, cost center and vendor.

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“At the same time we are launching a full-curriculum training effort to give our people better tools and to increase their capabilities,” Legaz adds. “We don’t believe in dogmatic positions though. There have to be many ways of achieving goals in a diverse business like ours. Some processes are complex and specific to the business

unit that is dealing with them; some are, well, just commodities.”

Diversity in supply Within Sprint there is clearly no bias when it comes to gender or country of origin: Legaz hails from Argentina, and Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure is Bolivian. Equal

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opportunities are at the heart of the company’s ethos, says Legaz, and he hasn’t had much to do to create a diverse sourcing policy.

It’s more of a statement of his position: “We love to provide opportunities to small or minority-owned businesses. That is important because they are the engine of the economy. Over my career I have found that such companies tend to be the most innovative – in the way they do business and find efficiencies, they are a huge generator of new employment.”

It’s very satisfying, he adds, to find that even the large technology corporations that partner with Sprint tend to be leaders in diversity, business ethics and equal opportunities. “But we at Sprint are leading the way,” Legaz states.

“Even in the tough times this company never deviated from its ethical stance or its respect for social and legal responsibility. It is comforting to be a part of such a group.”

As a provider of both telecoms hardware and networks, one very practical demonstration of this aspect of the company is the 1Million Project, which aims to provides devices and service to 1mn low-income students.

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“Even in the tough times this company never deviated from its ethical stance or its respect for social and legal responsibility” – Mariano Legaz, Senior Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer

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Asked to summarize his philosophy, Legaz ponders for a moment before replying: “I believe in process excellence and in data and analytics being a huge enabler to making smarter decisions. A capable workforce is critical, but even more important and critical is to drive engagement and participation and the recognition for your talent. As an organization, we are committed to process excellence and customer satisfaction, but also to providing an environment where people are truly engaged and motivated.”

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