Greg Tennyson, Chief Procurement Officer at VSP

Greg Tennyson


Chief Procurement Officer
VSP

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Greg.

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Practitioners-Only Day—The Road to 2020

Friday, February 9th, 2018


08:30 CPOs Unfiltered: Driving Innovation into the Business

In this unscripted executive roundtable, leading CPOs will give you a window into their world, what’s driving their thought processes, and how they’re delivering value for their company. Think The View’s “Hot Topics,” but with Chief Procurement Officers! Potential areas of discussion include:
• Is a CPO’s role to innovate within procurement, or use procurement as a tool to enable business innovation?
• Elevating procurement’s value to keep their seat at the table
• The future of procurement: What will a CPO in 2020 be doing for the business?

Managing The Value Stream

Friday, March 9th, 2018


11:10 Session 2: Building Top-Top Relationships with Key Suppliers

• Developing and maintaining strategic relationships with your key suppliers
o driving understanding across your organization on the 'need'
o establishing breadth and depth of those relationships to prepare for shifts in organizational structures
• Utilizing partners and key suppliers to drive innovative thought leadership - are there some best practices that can be shared when there is a need to think 'beyond the deal'?
• Driving the need in your organization to be transparent with key suppliers - for building greater alliances

12:00 Session 2: Building Top-Top Relationships with Key Suppliers

• Developing and maintaining strategic relationships with your key suppliers
o driving understanding across your organization on the 'need'
o establishing breadth and depth of those relationships to prepare for shifts in organizational structures
• Utilizing partners and key suppliers to drive innovative thought leadership - are there some best practices that can be shared when there is a need to think 'beyond the deal'?
• Driving the need in your organization to be transparent with key suppliers - for building greater alliances

12:30 Session 2: Building Top-Top Relationships with Key Suppliers

• Developing and maintaining strategic relationships with your key suppliers
o driving understanding across your organization on the 'need'
o establishing breadth and depth of those relationships to prepare for shifts in organizational structures
• Utilizing partners and key suppliers to drive innovative thought leadership - are there some best practices that can be shared when there is a need to think 'beyond the deal'?
• Driving the need in your organization to be transparent with key suppliers - for building greater alliances