Strategic sourcing and procurement organizations often strive for superiority at such things as spend analysis, sourcing strategy development, competitive market making, and compliance man¬agement. Now, with new tools that reach beyond their own four walls, leading companies are improving the results of their efforts by automating key administration functions and by more fully integrating suppliers into procurement processes.  These companies have adopted a value-added approach to:

• Identifying, profiling, targeting, and recruiting the right suppliers,
• Testing, certifying, and training them,
• Communicating, managing change, and collaborating with suppliers,
• Enabling suppliers to interact with their technology and to meet customers’ expectations, and
• Managing supplier compliance to terms, measuring and improving their performance, consistently, over time.

This WEBCAST will investigate the requirements, opportunities, and solutions available for truly competitive supply base management.

Featured Speakers
Andrew Bartolini, Vice President, Global Supply Management, Aberdeen Group
Pravin Kumar, Vice President of Products, Ketera

Moderator, Anne Millen Porter, Purchasing

This event will include live Q&A with the presenters, so invite your colleagues and please come prepared with questions. This Purchasing Magazine learning event is brought to you courtesy of Ketera.