BAE LEVERAGES COLLABORATIVE SUPPLIER RELATIONS

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Suppeco helped BAE’s AI Labs to tap into valuable relationship data to enrich and strengthen its operations

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uppeco is a collaborative relationship platform that leverages operational relationship data to solve key challenges facing the customersupplier ecosystem.

Central to what Suppeco does is collaborative Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), an approach that is helping deliver notable results for one of its clients, BAE Systems, the UK-based multinational defence, security and aerospace company and Europe’s largest defence contractor.

Suppeco works closely with BAE Systems’ Applied Intelligence, its cyber defence, research, and technology arm. Applied Intelligence provides a range of services to BAE Systems businesses, third-party companies, and government departments, including R&D, consultancy, specialist manufacturing and technical services.

Its expertise also helps the UK Ministry of Defence, the US Department of Defence, the European Defence Agency, and universities to achieve their goals.

For many years, Applied Intelligence has focused heavily on economic crime, fraud, and the growing threats of cyberattacks.

Simon King, Head of Supplier Management and Operations at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, says the company realised that, for it to continue