Overview
Title: Strategic Supplier Relationships
Date: Tuesday November 7,2017
Time: 2pm EST | 11am PST
Duration: 60 minutes
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Summary
Managing suppliers involves vastly different forms, functions, and strategies depending on the department, team, and—especially—industry of a company. Without proper supplier relationship management, companies are putting themselves at risk in many areas, including legally, financially, and in their supply chain efficiency.
How should companies properly manage suppliers? With process ownership, open collaboration, data integrity, and the right technology tools. In this upcoming webinar, PayStream Advisors and Determine explore all these components in an in-depth to dissection of the 2017 Supplier Management Report. Attendees will learn about challenges in supplier management across different industries, as well as best practices for managing suppliers from the perspective of direct, indirect, and services spend. Supplier relationships are critical and unique in business—register now to learn how best to leverage strategic supplier management technology, strategies, and practices that build stronger relationships while mitigating risk.
Topics include:
- Supplier management trends and best practices
- Solution features and functions to optimize your processes
- How different verticals leverage specific strategies
- Why buyers and suppliers collaborate better on a cloud platform
Accreditation: Webinar participants can earn 1 CPE credit in Management Services.
Prerequisites: : Previous experience in finance or procurement
Who should attend?
- Accounts Payable, Procurement, and Finance Professionals
- CPOs, CFOs
- Finance Directors
Controllers
Advanced preparation: None
Program level: Update
Delivery method: Group-Internet Based
Cancellation policy: PayStream Advisors may at its discretion cancel or replace a previously announced program with a program of similar content. We will make every effort to provide sufficient notification of such change. For more information regarding complaint and/or program cancellation policies, please email us at .
Refund policy: No fee charge
Speakers
Anna Barnett is an expert in several facets of financial automation software, including eProcurement, Sourcing, Contract Management, Human Resources Management, eInvoicing, and Invoice Workflow. She is also experienced in the organizational procedures and application of software in several specific industries, including Healthcare, Higher Education, and Non-profit institutions. Anna has extensive experience in research-based analytical writing and editing, as well as sales and marketing experience.
Sophie Pope began her career at Determine in 2013 in a Project Management and Consulting capacity, leading highly complex Implementations and managed services for multi-national organisations. Sophie has held a number of leadership positions at Determine including Head of Strategic Sourcing, and Spend Analytics and Head of Professional Services for Determine's EMEA client base. Determine’s ever growing client base spans over 20 industries from financial services, healthcare, retail, transportation, biotech, telecom, manufacturing and FMCG to name but a few. Sophie's past experience as Supply Chain Manager, Procurement Manager, and Head of Operations within the medical diagnostic, and scientific engineering industries, allows her to understand the tactical and strategic challenges faced by Determine's clients. In her current role as Head of Business Consulting at Determine, Sophie oversees Determine Cloud Platform Implementations and supporting services, striving to ensure that Determine's customers expectations are exceeded in professional service delivery.