As the global economy continues towards economic recovery, CPOs and their teams must again raise their game and contribute to wider business success. And the key to doing so, is collaboration.

By working closely with finance and treasury, greater value can be extracted from cash. By teaming up with other business stakeholders, CPOs can tap into deep category expertise and external networks to extract value. By collaborating intimately with suppliers, CPOs can ensure they beat the competition to innovative technologies and processes.

The Procurement Leaders Forum 2010 Amsterdam will drill into all of these areas, and much more, to investigate the value procurement can bring to business in this period of both growth and uncertainty.

The Procurement Leaders Forum will bring together the most forward thinking global procurement executives who will share their experiences, benchmark and exchange their views on how to get procurement to the next level.

Topics on the agenda will include:

• Business focus
  The steps procurement must take to best meet the needs of the wider organisation and its customers
• Board-level view
  How procurement can contribute to maximising shareholder value
• Performance measured
  Proving procurement's value and contribution to the wider business
• Up close and personal
  Getting visibility and control over the performance and decisions of suppliers
• Global sourcing
  Protecting value in an era of commodity-price and currency volatility
• Sustainable profits
  Combining sound procurement with sound business ethics
• Cash in hand
  Why a focus on cash flow, working capital, planning and performance should be top of