Armin Scharlach

Armin is a global thought-leader in "advanced sourcing - when doing just another tender is not enough". His concept of "Collaborative Commerce" leverages innovation, advanced analytics, collaboration and game theory methods to reduce cost and increase value beyond margin pressure. In more than 100 large sourcing events he sourced >10b EUR in spend and helped saving >1b EUR. Having worked for 6 of Europe's top 10 pharma companies he has a sound understanding of the particularities in the pharma industry.