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Spin-off conjures global program; newly stand-alone Freescale Semiconductor marries procurement, travel techniques.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 09-OCT-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Creating a travel program from scratch certainly has its challenges, but for Julie Thomte, global travel and business services manager at Freescale Semiconductor, which spun off from Motorola last year, the obstacles were especially great. Hired in the second quarter of last year, Thomte needed to implement airline, hotel, car rental and travel management programs by the end of 2005, otherwise Freescale would enter the new year with no supplier contracts or booking processes. She succeeded, establishing travel programs in 31 countries in three months using data-focused strategies generally reserved for procurement departments.

"Before you can get to the metrics, you have to go through the sourcing activities," said Thomte, whose procurement sensibilities stem from five years as senior manager of corporate travel at Dell Inc., reporting to the senior vice president of worldwide procurement.

Thomte's main obstacle in establishing Freescale's...

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