ProcureCon for Corporate Sourcing 2011
Beyond Subtraction: Adding Value By Addition
ProcureCon for Corporate Sourcing, being held February 1-3, 2011 in Altanta, is designed to meet all your current concerns and challenges in relation to material management & services procurement. Key topics include the advancing your strategic procurement organization, business alignment, internal customer collaboration and engagement, advanced SRM and performance management, spend analysis and core versus non-core considerations.
What sets this CPO event apart? The key is the intimate setting and the level of networking that goes on at ProcureCon for Corporate Sourcing. It’s a great opportunity to benchmark against other procurement organizations, challenging you to do better than the best going forward. ProcureCon’s CPO event agenda goes far beyond the traditional lecture format. You can take part in discussion groups, closed door and match-making sessions (where we pair you with fellow attendees you request to meet) to ensure you take home specific findings you can apply in your own business.
"ProcureCon Indirect was a great experience. Quite a few of the participants sent me e-mails. It seems they really enjoyed it and found it useful as well. Thank you for inviting me and my congratulations to you and your team as well." – Jason Kwan, Vice President Global Strategic Sourcing, Manpower Inc
The ProcureCon Advisory Board and WBR are currently developing the 2011 Corporate Sourcing conference agenda and the following companies are already confirmed their participation:
Home Depot, Metlife, The American Red Cross, Manpower, MGM Mirage, UTC Fire & Security, Tyco International, PG&E, Xerox Corporation, KLA-Tencor, Next Level Purchasing, Dresser-Rand, Volvo Group, Cessna Aircraft, Horses for Sources, Jarden Corporation, Nokia, United Rentals, OfficeMax, IACCM, PepsiCo, DHL, Verizon, Cushman & Wakefield
Here are just some of our speakers signed on so far:
- Roy Anderson, former CPO, State Street Bank
- Jill Bossi, VP & CPO, The American Red Cross
- Joanna Martinez, Executive MD & CPO, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
- Jason Kwan, CPO, Manpower
- Reuben Slone, EVP Supply Chain, OfficeMax
If you’re responsible for the strategic direction of your corporate procurement organization, this is the event for you…
Value Proposition Pcon CS 2011:
Advanced Category Management & Customer Engagement
Some discretionary spend categories are particularly hard to gain enthusiasm from the end-user for a strategic sourcing approach. With that in mind, we created the practitioner-only first event day allowing for a closed-door best practice exchange where attendees speak their minds and receive candid feedback & insights from their peers on their category management and customer engagement strategies.
Core vs. Non-Core Decision-Making: When & What To Outsource To a MSP?
We discuss how companies are leveraging their core and non-core capabilities. When is the time right for you to outsource a category or procurement activity to a MSP and what are the key concerns in making that decision? What barriers need to be overcome to reach a successful engagement. How do you get the internal user on board and how do you tap into your suppliers’ knowledge and capabilities effectively?
Building A Proactive Corporate Procurement Team Adding Value Beyond Savings
“Traditionally, you could say procurement adds value by subtraction. How do we add value by addition?” In moving from a push to a pull organization, procurement executives increasingly need to adjust their team structure and re-design their organizational structure. We discuss how to build a proactive team, able to meet the needs of your internal business partners and to add value to the overall organization.
Strategic SRM – Beyond Performance Mgt. Toward Collaboration
A relationship that drives down cost is different than one that drives value from collaboration. Too often, corporate procurement only focuses on the ‘savings’ piece which limits the ability to work on the continuous improvement, innovation and value piece. We discuss the actual steps and timeline toward strategic supplier collaboration.
Advanced Spend Analytics: Proactively Ensuring The Realization Of Savings
A lack of data visibility, level of detail and accurate categorization are a great hindrance to identifying your best opportunities and priorities to drive strategic corporate procurement forward. Lack of savings control and engagement flows from that lack of spend insight as well, keeping procurement from being credited with their savings achievements. We explore how to overcome your spend data challenges and use your spend visibility to advance your strategic procurement organization and ensure savings flow to the bottom line or resources are used better.