The Point
Buyers Meeting Point attends many sales AND procurement webinars/webcasts. One of the interesting things about consistently reading content from quality sources is that you start to notice trends. It is amazing how often the same topics arise at the same time in different places. We use this blog as a way to help you stay on top of the major themes in procurement and supply chain management.
Webinar Notes: “Seven Trends That Will Impact Supply Management In 2012”
This week’s featured event was sponsored by TradingPartners with key speaker Andrew Bartolini, the Chief Research Officer at Ardent Partners and Editor of the blog CPO Rising.
Beyond the high quality of the presentation itself, I appreciated the global perspective on procurement's activities and opportunities for responsibility and value creation. This was the kind of event that I think would open a lot of C-level eyes to the value of the function that they already have in house. You can request a copy of the slides or listen to the presentation on TradingPartners' site.
Webinar Notes: S&DCE's The Measuring Stick: Strategies to Manage & Improve Procurement Performance
This week's featured webinar was hosted by Supply & Demand Chain Executive and sponsored by Puridiom and Ardent Partners. My notes are below, and unless you are a member of S&DCE you won't be able to listen to the event archive. Another very good lesson that comes from this event is that you should always register for an event you are interested in, even if there is a chance you can't make it. Everyone that registered for the event received a complimentary copy of a relevant Ardent Partners report that is listed at a cool $399 on their site. You aren't going to get a better offer than that.
Where do CPOs come from?
This week's Wiki-Wednesday topic is the Chief Procurement Officer and you can read an excerpt of the article here. Our choice of this topic connects our two event picks of the week: the SIG webinar on The CPO in 2011 and Andrew Bartolini from the analyst firm Ardent Partners, who is speaking in the Supply & Demand Chain Exec webinar on Wednesday.