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Article Excerpt
Company: DuPont
Headquarters: Wilmington, Del.
2005 Worldwide T&E: $300 million
If anyone had told me less than two years ago that we would have 50 countries all consolidated with the same travel management company, that we would have a global air deal implemented and a global hotel deal on the way, I would have accused them of not getting enough sleep." So said Susann Bell, global travel program manager for the science-based solutions giant DuPont. In fact, Bell and her colleague, global travel buyer Nadine Dewart, are the ones who are more likely to have missed out on their sleep because they have achieved all that since February 2004.
The global air agreements, signed in August 2005 and coming into effect this month, are notable for using two aids that are becoming increasingly prevalent in travel sourcing: the Six Sigma process and an electronic request for proposals. The hotel agreements are on track to be finalized by year-end.
What also has made these landmarks notable is that they have been achieved within a company with 55,000 employees that spends $300 million per year on travel and is extremely diverse both geographically and structurally--DuPont has more than 200 legal entities in Europe alone. DuPont has offices in...
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