(12/5/2011) BMP's Event Picks of the Week

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This week's recommended events for procurement professionals: December 5-9

• On Tuesday, SIG presents “Take Your Sourcing Down To The Component Level: The Kimberly Clark Case Study”. The case study will detail how Kimberly Clark got their procurement and design teams to collaborate so that equipment that had historically been purchased as assembled pieces could be negotiated and purchased at the component level. According to the event description, “dynamic esourcing” was a critical part of their success, and I’ll be interested to find out exactly what that means, especially after last week’s CombineNet/Maersk event on second generation or advanced sourcing technology.
• We’re pleased to have had a last minute addition to our events calendar this week: “Top Cost-Saving Initiatives For 2011/2012” from SourceOne and Cash Recovery Partners on Thursday. The main objective of the event is to help you establish and optimize a set of cost-saving initiatives for the coming year. One interesting detail about this event is that it is longer than the average. That sets the expectation that we are going to get a solid level of detail – hopefully increasing the likelihood that you can easily apply whatever you learn. The featured speaker on the event, Rick Lanza, has a rich background in helping companies identify their hidden financial assets, mostly using technology and referring them to specialists. He is the author of 13 publications and training courses in audit software and has over 100 articles for major audit and accounting publications.

The BMP content schedule for the rest of the week:

Tuesday: Our Flip Side notes from a sales event titled " Selling To and Negotiating With Today's Tougher, Strategic Procurers/Buyers/Sourcers

Wiki-Wednesday: TBA

Thursday: BMP's coverage of the November ISM Non-Manufacturing Report on Business (released on 12/5)

Friday: Our notes on one of the above event picks

Saturday: Our blog pick of the week