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Nicholas Kline

Strategic Sourcing Manager
Toyota Motor Sales

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Practitioners-Only Day—The Road to 2020

Friday, February 9th, 2018

10:45 Marketing

With content-led marketing, advertisers are in a midst of an evolving new world- how should you adapt and evolve to capitalize on this change?
• Taking marketing procurement to the next level - what does marketing procurement 3.0 look like?
• How changes in the marketing environment are impacting marketing and marketing procurement KPIs
• How do you know you’re really contributing to the company goals through marketing procurement?
• With more agency consolidation and globalization, how will this impact the function?
• Integrated marketing – how can you work with agencies and suppliers in a more structured and organized way?
• The impact of big data on the procurement function

17:10 Interactive Roundtable Discussions

TABLE 1: Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Risk Management

Hosted by: James Tucker, Vice President, Go-to-Market Strategy & Operations, Ariba Spot Buy

TABLE 2: Next Generation Spend Analytics & Data Visualization — Strategies To Move the Needle From Tactical To Strategic

Hosted by: Jake Wojcik, Senior Vice President, Insight Sourcing Group & SpendHQ

TABLE 3: Contract Lifecycle Management

Hosted by: Barb Sexton, President, ISM Arizona

TABLE 4: The Impact of the ACA on Contingent and Contract Employees

Hosted by: Anup Pillay, VP - Indirect Procurement, The Coca-Cola Company

TABLE 5: Supplier Segmentation and Rationalization

Hosted by: Alex Brown, Chief Procurement Officer, GLOBALFOUNDRIES

TABLE 6: Tail Spend Management

Hosted by: Andy Murray, Head of Technical Procurement, Nestlé North America

TABLE 7: TBA

Hosted by: Edgeverve

TABLE 8: Marketing: Creative Agency Management

Hosted by: Nicholas Kline, Strategic Sourcing Manager, Toyota Motor Sales

TABLE 9: Dealing with Rogue Spend

Hosted by: Kevin Ahlborn, Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing, LinkedIn

TABLE 10: Upgrading to the Suite: The Journey to Source-to-Pay Transformation at Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group

Hosted by: Phil McDonald, Director, Strategic Sourcing, Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group & Richard Waugh, VP Corporate Development, Zycus Inc.

TABLE 11: TBA

Hosted by: Cynthia Radford, Senior VP, Innovatix

TABLE 12: Achieving Savings by Participating in Group Purchasing Organizations and Consortiums

Hosted by: Greg Tice, Director, Indirect Procurement, Asurion