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?

Working with internal customers at the onset of project and budget planning can create many win-win situations. This panel will discuss ways for you to:
• Work with your stakeholders to overcome value misalignment
• Develop an effective pipeline
• Improve transparency in the sourcing process
• Get in front of the budget so you’re not just relegated to making cuts
• Gain insight into your customers’ needs
• Better use your limited resources
• Create a roadmap for forward planning