Live Webinar: Key Procurement Trends for 2015

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Engage in an in-depth discussion and live-polling session on the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in Procurement with Chris Sawchuck, Principal-in-Charge, The Hackett Group. Also get to know how organizations are working towards realizing world-class performance and improving Procurement ROI through achieving these KPIs.

In this Webinar, Chris Sawchuk from The Hackett Group will walk through major findings of the research report based on the analysis of a recent survey of procurement executives across all industries. He will discuss and share an all-inclusive analysis on the observations from the report Key Procurement Trends for 2015′ and what this can mean for your organization’s procurement functions in the upcoming year. Furthermore, he will discuss how CPOs may plan to address the underlying procurement challenges, as per these trends, in 2015.

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Tuesday, Nov 25, 2014

2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT / 11:00 AM PT

Key takeaways from this session includes:

Key procurement objectives and capability development priorities
Functional value delivery expectations…and expansion
Planned procurement resource investments and allocations
Strategies to broaden the leverage of supplier capabilities

Speakers:

Chris Sawchuk, Principal & Global Procurement Advisory Practice Leader; has over 17 years of experience in supply management, working directly with Fortune 500 and midsized firms around the globe and in a variety of industries to improve all aspects of procurement, including process redesign, technology enablement, operations strategy planning, organizational change and strategic sourcing.

Richard Waugh, VP Corporate Development, Zycus Inc.; Richard has an extensive background in B2B E-Commerce. He helped launch GE’s Trading Process Network (TPN), the first on-line Marketplace for Sourcing and Procurement. He was also Co-Founder of B2eMarkets, one of the first SaaS (Software as a Service) Sourcing Suite providers and later covered the Supply Management market as an Industry Analyst for the Aberdeen Group.

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