Morihide Eddie Tabata

Best Flow of the Week. Zero competition. Worked at Boeing in the U.S. in Seattle and Dallas. • He is the owner and the final decision maker for the SW selection of the S2P RfP (Project “Mercury”) • In his previous job, Fujitsu - purchasing(21 years), global marketing(6 years) , internal IT(4 years) + 1995-1998 Procurement Manager, 777 Development Project for the Boeing Company + 2009-2017 General Manager, Global Strategic Partner Procurement, Purchasing Division and Senior Director of Strategic Alliances, Global Marketing Division + 2017-2020 Americas Region CIO • He joined Olympus on January 1, 2021 to participate from the stage where the RFP will be issued. In the vendor selection at the end of March, Coupa was almost selected, but he instructed the project team to do a more detailed review. The reason for almost selecting Coupa at the time was that the function (system linkage and invoice processing) was evaluated to be simpler and easier to use than Ariba. There is still a slight Coupa advantage, but with the help of Tabata-san, the debate has returned to a situation where we can fight enough. • In general, the European stakeholders at Olympus seem to be pro-Coupa, pushing Coupa internally. • MR. Tabata alone has the authority to make vendor decisions, but because he wants to democratically select a vendor, the stakeholders of Olympus Europe must get aligned as well.