When considering outsourcing a category or part of the procurement function, there are many considerations you must take into account to ensure that you’ll actually receive promised savings. During this working group, discuss:
• How to determine what is core to your company’s procurement function, and what can be outsourced
• Selecting the right BPO for your organization- it’s not one size fits all
• Achieving value creation and ROI based on what’s outsourced and where
• The impact of compliance costs and global economic volatility on savings
• The evolution of the outsourcing engagement lifecycle

Whether you’re automating tactical processes to focus on the strategic, implementing a new technology tool, or crafting new contract management templates, you need to make sure you have the resources available to you.
Discuss:
• What are the criteria and metrics for Best in Class procurement ops organizations?
• The impact of policy vs. relationship
• Implementing systems—funding, justifying, bandwidth, who’s absorbing it, how to get them to use
• How to make it easier for people in your company to buy stuff—is there a UI that’s user friendly?
• Optimizing your mix of tools- eSourcing, P2P, contract management- and consolidating where necessary
• Should operations be centralized globally or regionally?
• Benchmarking your organization against other organizations- how do you stack up?