ProcureCon Webinars

Shaping the Future of Procurement

Key Takeaways:

• Examine the strategies, trends and technologies that are shaping the future of procurement at the world’s leading companies.
• Discuss how the latest cloud, analytics, mobile, social and security solutions – and latest Watson cognitive solution capabilities – can help procurement achieve greater agility, speed and lower risk.
• Explore the continuous process of procurement transformation and how deeper engagement with suppliers and the enterprise can help deliver superior results.

Speakers:

• Michael Martine, Director - IBM Systems Transformation & Business Development
• Stefan Freund, Senior Product Manager - IBM Emptoris Supplier Lifecycle Management

11 Ways to Jumpstart your Contractor Qualification Program

Key Highlights:

• Using key metrics to monitor your qualification program
• Accounting for multiple levels of risk throughout supply chain
• Identifying 9 common qualification standards
• Assessing financial health of suppliers How consumer shopping behavior has been impacted by the multitude of device options and how retailers are delivering seamless experiences across multiple devices

Keynote Speaker:

• Brett Armstrong, Vice President of Marketing at BROWZ LLC

Top 10 Reasons Supplier Pre-qualification Fails … and 10 Ways to Ensure Success!

Key Takeaways:

• Prequalifying and managing contractors and suppliers will reduce risk, protect your brand, and increase shareholder value.
• There are 10 key areas that are critical to address when implementing a successful supplier qualification and management program.
• Learn tips from a veteran of supplier qualification who has implemented a program for Caterpillar, one of the most respected companies in the world.

Speaker:

• Gil Diekhoff, former Divisional Global Safety Manager at Caterpillar, currently the Director of Professional Services at BROWZ

Smarter Procurement through Effective Collaboration

What if you could truly transform procurement into a strategic value driver and:

• Drive innovation across a broad set of categories
• Meet diversity / CSR and regulatory requirements
• Help mitigate risk and improve working capital management
• Simplify and automate the entire source-to-settle process

Speakers:

• Alex Saric, Vice President, Business Network Marketing, Ariba, an SAP company
• Kory Manley, Director Sourcing, Upstream Systems & Spend Compliance, Caesars Entertainment

Key Knowledge Partner: SAP

What Every Procurement Professional Should Know About Supplier Risk Management: The IBM Story

Viewers of this webinar will learn:

• A precise framework around supplier risk management and why and where it’s needed
• How IBM manages supplier qualifications, compliance, financial continuity and supplier code of conduct
• Common mistakes made and solutions to supplier risk management

Speakers:

• Bill DeMartino,Practice Executive, Spend Analysis & Supplier Management, IBM Emptoris
• Lou Ferretti, Project Executive, Product Environmental Compliance & Supply Chain Social Responsibility, IBM Integrated Supply Chain

Key Knowledge Partner: IBM

Featuring: David Kurkjian, Effective Sales Consultant, MasterMessaging

ATTENDEES WILL LEARN:

• A New Playbook for Procurement ROI
• A Radical Strategy for Pitching Procurement Internally
• A Way To Use Spend Analytics to Know The Score

Speakers:

• Kirk Poucher, Procurement Thought Leader, Insight Sourcing Group
• David Kurkjian, Effective Sales Consultant, MasterMessaging

Key Knowledge Partner: Spend HQ

Moving Beyond Usability to Guided Buying - How Vattenfall Elevated their Spend Compliance with Catalogs

This one-hour webinar covers:

• A guided buying overview, including consumer-like tools that draw from informed decision-making elements
• Vattenfall’s case study on catalog usage for a guided buying experience
• How Vattenfall can easily find goods and services from preferred suppliers, get supplier recommendations, and peer feedback

Key knowledge partner: Hubwoo

Featuring Anita Weise, VP of Procurement, Vail Resorts

This session will cover:

• Vail Resorts is consolidating suppliers and systems
• The procurement team is enabling Vail Resorts to deliver a better guest experience
• Inventory management can drive spend reduction and help optimize stock
• Coupa Inventory streamlines internal ordering and warehouse management

Key Knowledge Partner: Coupa

Featuring: Jim Cinelli, CCWP, VP Services Delivery, Beeline

This session will cover:

• Lessons learned from two contingent workforce management experts who have multiple experiences selecting and implementing a VMS partner
• What qualities to look for in a successful VMS partner
• The questions you should be asking when evaluating a VMS partner

Key Knowledge Partner: Beeline

Featuring: Chris Sawchuk, Global Sourcing & Procurement Advisory Practice Leader, The Hackett Group

This session will cover:

• Technology investment trends
• Adoption of supplier networks
• Globalization and outsourcing plans as well as
• Refreshed approaches to measuring procurement performance and business value

Key Knowledge Partner: Zycus

Featuring: Sarah Tyre, Senior VP, Vendor Manager, Bank of America

This session will cover:

• The top contingent workforce trends for 2014;
• The most popular usage patterns across the VMS industry to address them; and
• How two world-class organizations are embracing strategies to manage their programs today
• Plus much more!

Key Knowledge Partner: Fieldglass