Whether you're a CPO or director, from a large spend or a small spend company, ProcureCon Indirect West is your best source for gaining practical knowledge that will not only help you do your job better today, but prepare you for your job tomorrow.  Download a list of this year's ProcureCon Indirect West conference attendees and learn about the networking opportunities our conference offers.

Have a read through this whitepaper on 'Cultivating Excellence and Efficiency in the Contingent Workforce', written by WBR Digital along side Beeline. This study details how: Procurement is continuing its transition from a tactical to a strategic function in many cases. Program maturity is spread over stages, either moving toward a higher-level view of spend or already enjoying the benefits of a transition. Technology will continue to increase the visibility around the contingent workforce. As the lines between contingent and full-time labor become increasingly blurred, creating strong alliances with HR will be essential to maintain efficacy.Click on the image to download learn more!

In every discussion we have regarding extending the scope of procurement’s responsibility, chief procurement officers (CPOs) face the same three questions: How will your customers and procurement staff collaborate? Do your procurement professionals have sufficient category expertise to add value? Are there enough skilled procurement professionals within the team to handle the volume of buying? Until recently, the answers to these questions have been routine: policy, process, technology, hiring, and training. However, the reality of execution is more complex.  Click the image to the left to access the full results.

“If you’re not leveraging your supplier’s resources, your competition is,” says Bob Hellem, VP, Indirect Procurement, ConAgra Foods Inc. His point is just one of the many topics discussed in the exclusive ProcureCon/Emptoris whitepaper below, which outlines the elements that will continue to define the procurement professional of the future. As Hellem states, one very important distinction of today and tomorrow’s procurement professional is the fact that s/he must understand how to get more out of the supplier than a quote. The whitepaper was compiled from a VIP luncheon organized by ProcureCon and hosted by Emptoris, which brought together procurement officers from companies like Boeing, Cushman & Wakefield, Paramount Pictures, The Home Depot and more. Download the whitepaper to find out how the procurement professional will continue to change and what you must know to keep up.

As procurement gains influence and visibility around spend management for contingent labor, adopting best practices and building alliances with HR are top priorities within the department. Produced with Beeline, the 2015 Contingent Labor Trends report contains benchmark data and analysis around the following key themes: - Procurement's transition from a tactical to strategic department - Using technology to gain visibility around contingent labor - Building influence and alliances across departments Click the image to the left to download you copy!

This independent research report seeks to present a comprehensive, industry-wide view into what is happening in the world of procurement today by drawing on the experience, performance, and perspective of 273 Chief Procurement Officers and other procurement executives.

Who will you meet at ProcureCon Indirect West 2016? Download the preliminary attendee list to see for yourself!          

WBR Digital have come together with etouches to bring you this benchmark report on the growing role of travel and meetings management in procurement. Check out the report to learn more on the following:  As the procurement function grows into a centralized, empowered function within many businesses, travel and meetings are increasingly coming under its horizon. Challenges around gaining a firm mandate and proving the value of procurement’s involvement are front-of-mind for teams managing the category In many cases, procurement lacks the ability to tie its operations to ROI present in other managed indirect spend categories Click on the image to the left to download the benchmark report today!

This report, written by The Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by Ariba, an SAP company, is based on a survey of 281 executives based in EMEA, from organisations with at least $500 million in revenue and from across business functions. It also incorporates in-depth interviews with experts and practitioners with knowledge of how businesses collaborate with one another.

Spend management encompasses the entire purchasing lifecycle-from sourcing goods and selecting suppliers to setting up contracts and paying suppliers-and helps buyers take a holistic view of procurement from a competitive vantage point. To be successful at spend management, procurement teams must first understand the oragnization's spend. We look specifically at the office products category with an interview with a Chief Procurement Officer on the value her team is generating from strategically managing this spend.

Check out this benchmark report by WBR Digital in association with Charterhouse, where you can develop Procurement Best Practices through key findings such as: Procurement’s alignment with marketing is stable within most businesses, but leaders are seeking to further integrate. Reducing costs continues to be the biggest priority for procurement managing the category of marketing spend. In order to create the largest potential for savings, procurement is attempting to be involved in the sourcing process from the initial strategy-planning phase, as opposed to being brought in at the end of sourcing as a final obligatory step.Click on the image to download today!

This abridged version of the study contains a snapshot of the most popular performance metrics and best practices for the P2P Process in a high-level format. Compared year-over-year, Top Performers are reducing purchasing operations costs, while . Still, Top Performers are improving in their ability to drive effectiveness and extract value from the AP process § While most organizations lack in P2P, Top Performers actively focus on stakeholders and invest in ways to guide requisitioners to preferred suppliers and proper buying channels, enable supplier self-service, and track/improve their responsiveness to stakeholders § Top Performers continue to lead in . Beyond efficiency gains, process automation is foundational to driving business agility, spend visibility, information digitization, predictive analytics, discount realization, and working capital optimization

The current generation of procurement professionals has witnessed first-hand a period of unrivaled advances for their profession as market forces and new technologies combined to pull procurement to the center of business operations and business results. While the foundation of procurement’s future will be built upon the past, the strategies and approaches that drive new successes will be markedly different. This report looks at the transformative strategies that will unlock procurement’s next surge of value.

WBR Digital, along with Rimini Street have developed this ProcureCon Focus Report. The key findings of this report include the following: Procurement is increasingly involved with IT in a mutually beneficial, 'Trusted Advisory' capacity.  Procurement and IT are now taking a fresh look at formerly sacred categories including software maintenance and support in order to help transform the business. The savings associated with third party ERP maintenance are attractive to procurement teams, provided they feel that support quality is not diminished and systems can continue to upgrade, evolve and grow. Click on the image to download right now!

In this briefing paper, we look at why it is important for new procurement leaders, in whatever leadership role they hold, to focus on demonstrating some “quick wins” in their relatively early days in the job. Those quick wins must be aligned with longer-term strategic goals and places, but showing benefits quickly is important for credibility and confidence. That means both the leader’s own confidence, and the confidence that the organization and stakeholders have in the individual.

2015 was undoubtedly a year of change for the supply chain industry, and it doesn’t appear to be slowing down in 2016. The expectations for procurement have been high, and will continue to grow in the coming year. What does 2016 have in store for procurement? Thought-leaders on the front lines of the industry weigh in. Find out more by downloading your copy today!

Faced with complex, global supplier networks, it’s more critical than ever for you to have an effective strategy for evaluating and monitoring third-party risk. This guide outlines nine steps for an enhanced due-diligence process to ensure you have the insights needed to avoid financial and reputational harm due to third-party relationships.