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	Jaime Bohnke, VP, Global Supply Chain & Lean Six Sigma, Tyco International Tim Cummins, CEO, IACCM Listen to Jaime Bohnke and Tim Cummins discuss: Restructuring your team for strategic category management Overcoming the emotional reservations of internal users and executive stakeholders Implementing rigorous governance with solid metrics aligned with strategic company-wide objectives
	Roy Anderson (Former Chief Procurement Officer at State Street Bank and MetLife) and Tim Cummins (IACCM CEO) discuss their perspectives on how to achieve greater value from supply relationships.
	Jaime’s introduction of the Category CEO concept deployed across Tyco businesses created a lot of buzz at ProcureCon 2010 last month in Dallas. For your benefit, we asked Jaime to explain the concept and reasoning behind implementation. A product of the impetus to think differently, the Category CEO concept may well be your team’s next step in capitalizing on your value chain and taking a different seat at the company table too.
	Paul Perry, Global Sourcing Director for Nokia Paul Perry, Global Sourcing Director for Nokia, is working hard to change the way his global company thinks about travel and to save the organization serious money over the long term. Mandating change is not effective, he says. Instead, companies must work toward a shift in behavior. Perry is teaching employees that travel shouldn’t be the first choice, but “if you do have to travel, you have the responsibility to do it a certain way.” Here, he talks about how Nokia is taking the time to show and teach employees what travel does to individuals, to the environment and to the company’s bottom line, and it’s effecting real change.
	Michael Dennis, Schreiber Foods MRO is still an elusive category in purchasing, says Michael Dennis, Head of Indirect Strategic Sourcing at Schreiber Foods. The biggest challenges for him and his fellow procurement executives remain how to collect and organize data, and how to recruit and keep high-level talent. Hear him talk about these issues and how Schreiber is addressing them in the video below.
	Joseph Richardson, Manager, Global Commodity Management According to Joseph Richardson, Manager, Global Commodity Management, FMC Technologies, Inc., ask 10 people what change management is, and you’ll get 10 different answers. In order to deal with that challenge across a large organization spread throughout various geographies, the company must consider people, process and technology, or technical, political and cultural aspects of the business. Listen to him talk about this topic in the video interview below from the ProcureCon show in Dallas this past September.
	Understanding Total Acquisition Costs And The Real Costs Of Sourcing Products In Different Geographies Presented By: Ginny Tucker, Xerox
	Podcast: ConAgra's DK Singh on how procurement can develop better relationships with suppliers DK Singh, Senior Vice President, Procurement for ConAgra Foods, talks to Kelly Hushin, Online Content Manager for Worldwide Business Research, producers of ProcureCon, about how procurement organizations can tap into the know-how of suppliers and work with other internal organizations to better improve relationships. Singh focuses on how to bring procurement and key suppliers into the product design process, work alongside R&D to obtain input from strategic suppliers and how to work on value creation.
	Newell Rubbermaid's John Inabnit on how procurement organizations tap into their suppliers' know-how John Inabnit, VP Global Sourcing and Procurement for Newell Rubbermaid, talks about how procurement teams at large organizations can tap into the know-how of suppliers and work with internal groups to improve relationships. He and Kelly Hushin, Online Content Manager, Worldwide Business Research, producers of ProcureCon, discuss how to bring procurement and key suppliers into the product design process, work alongside R&D to obtain input from strategic suppliers and how to work on value creation with suppliers.
	Understanding Total Acquisition Costs And The Real Costs Of Sourcing Products In Different Geographies Presented By: Ginny Tucker, Xerox
	Navigating a Global Petroleum Leader through a SaaS deployment Background
	The Shelby Group Whitepaper: Lessons Learned from the Field: Planning for Success with SaaS in eProcurement A recent report from Gartner predicts that SaaS will continue to demonstrate an 18% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2013 for the aggregate enterprise application markets. That is nearly five times the total application market of 3.6% CAGR.2
	Establishing DNA To Listen to Supplier Ideas, Driving Innovation & Advanced Collaboration Presented By: DK Singh, SVP Procurement, ConAgra Foods
	ProcureCon 2010 Survey Results - Mitigating Commodity Volatility