Events

Keep informed on the latest trends in procurement outsourcing and developments from ICG Commerce through our events calendar.

Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference

June 1-3, 2011
Scottsdale, Arizona

The world financial crisis that froze business has passed and growth appears ready to stage a comeback. But global business opportunities look radically different now as we enter the second decade of the 21st century. Infrastructure needed to tap emerging markets is being built just as an overhaul in our energy networks and manufacturing plants is beginning to accelerate. AMR's Supply chain Executive Conference will look ahead to a smarter, more connected, and more sustainable physical and information infrastructure.

Speaking Session:
Peter Retterer, Goodyear
June 2nd, 3:15 – 4:15 pm

Case Study: "more DRIVEN." Goodyear's Focus on Cost Innovation

Peter Retterer, Head of North American Procurement, will share Goodyear's success driving process and cost innovation in the Indirects space to partially offset Direct material increases and generate new funds for growth reinvestment. The session will cover:

• A holistic approach to procurement that spans the full value chain



• Accelerating savings and agility in indirect spend through internal focus and outside support



• Vision for continued procurement excellence

For more information, please visit the event page.

2011 Procurement Leaders Forum

September, 2011
Boston, Massachusetts

The pressures on today's CPOs are manifold – reducing costs, avoiding risk, nurturing innovation – the list is long. Yet, against the backdrop of an exceptionally uncertain global economy today’s leading procurement chiefs are looking not only to master these, but to drive differentiation and move towards the next generation of sourcing.

Diversifying the supply chain, growing the business, besting the challenges of a global economy – conquering these kinds of goals will drive procurement up the value chain and better meet the needs of internal customers. However, as CPOs look to reposition themselves as business leaders, many will need to redefine the talent in their teams, master strategic sourcing practices and, ultimately, demonstrate procurement’s impact to an often unconvinced business.

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 you and your team can extract savings, deliver value to stakeholders, and embed next-generation sourcing.

For more information, please visit Procurement Leaders.

Recent Recorded Webinars

View recorded webinars on procurement outsourcing.

Proving Real Value - Closing the Performance Perception Gap Between Finance and Procurement

Hosted By SIG

This webinar shared final results from a new research study by The Hackett Group and will introduce tools and metrics that can help Procurement evolve its value proposition.

During this webinar Pierre Mitchell of the Hackett Group and Keith Hausmann of ICG Commerce share:

• The root causes of misaligned performance perceptions and how you can bridge the gap



• How to identify and drive more savings to the bottom line



• How to measure and track realized savings to demonstrate significant, tangible results to the C-suite



• What best-in-class companies are doing to achieve critical spend visibility and maximize realized savings through a case study

View the webinar

Stop Savings Walking Out the Door

Hosted By Business Finance

In today's economy, executives are aggressively looking for every opportunity to reduce costs and are no longer forgiving of savings that don't materialize. Many organizations recognize that non-core expenditures such as marketing, professional services and logistics are a significant, untapped source of cost savings, but realizing savings on this spend has proven elusive. Hundreds of sub-categories, thousands of suppliers and end-users make this spend challenging to manage. Most companies struggle to connect expected savings to what actually hits the bottom line -- the realized savings. Leading companies are using Procurement Outsourcing to help them overcome these historical challenges and maximize the realized savings their organizations deliver - up to a margin point straight to the bottom-line.

Presented by Rachael Stormonth, vice president, NelsonHall, the industries' leading BPO analyst firm.

Register to view the webinar