Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company today unveiled the agenda and overall theme for its 4th annual CPO Summit to be held this November 13 and 14 in San Francisco, CA. The Chief Procurement Officer's (CPO) Summit has become the definitive conference for global procurement executives to learn, network, and discuss the strategies needed to extend the broad transformation of their organizations. This year's theme, "CPO Rising," will focus on the strategies that leading CPOs have employed to turn supply management into a competitive weapon.
"It is clear that the gains made by procurement over the past decade are significant and have helped elevate the function within the enterprise," notes Andrew Bartolini, Vice President of Global Supply Management research at Aberdeen. "This year, our Summit theme is 'CPO Rising' and we are extremely honored to have a world-renowned panel of CPOs who will share how they are rising to meet new challenges, rising to new operational heights, and rising in prominence within the enterprise. These leading CPOs will also highlight the key strategies they will use to propel their teams forward in 2009."
This year's CPO Summit will leverage Aberdeen's leading global supply management research and offer compelling best practice presentations from prominent procurement leaders including:
-- Scott Singer, Global Head of Procurement (CPO), Rio Tinto
-- Kirk Eberhart, Global Director of Supply Chain, Material Sciences
Corporation
-- Farley Blackman, Vice President, Sustainable Cost Management, BP plc
-- Jim Polak, Director, General Purchasing (CPO), PPG Industries, Inc.
and Supply & Demand Chain Executive's "2008 Executive of the Year"
Aberdeen has partnered with leading publications, Supply & Demand
Chain Executive and the CPO Agenda to provide a meeting place for
global supply management executives as well as chief operating
officers, and VPs of procurement, supply chain, finance, and
manufacturing. Past summit participants have been eager to express
their satisfaction of the timeliness and effectiveness of the
presentations and networking opportunities. "The CPO Summit aligned
perfectly with the challenges that our global procurement team was
facing. The recommendations we received have had a profound impact on
our business," notes Martin Fallas, Procurement Executive at Chiquita
Brands International, and past CPO Summit attendee.
Key topics on this year's agenda include:
-- Mining Value from Procurement
-- People, Process, Technology: The CPO's Strategic Agenda
-- Globalization and Supply Risk Management
-- Sustainable Procurement
-- Spend Analysis & Strategic Sourcing
-- Procurement Outsourcing
-- P-card Best Practices
-- Complex Category Management
-- E-Payables: Linking Procurement with Accounts Payable
-- Supply Chain Finance - The intersection of Supply Chain, Treasury, and
Procurement