Join Ardent Partners and LexisNexis on Thursday, October 22 at 2:00 PM EST for this free webinar on the State of Strategic Sourcing 2015 – Supplier-Centric Sourcing, which draws on the responses of more than 330 Chief Procurement Officers and other sourcing leaders.

Every year, the pace of business continues to accelerate, forcing enterprise sourcing teams to adapt to changes and shifts within global markets in order to stay competitive. Although workloads and responsibilities continue to increase, sourcing teams remain understaffed with little relief in sight. As a result, collaboration, early engagement, process linkage, and automation have become valuable force multipliers to help extend a sourcing team’s impact throughout the enterprise, even as it remains stretched to its limits.

This webinar, based on Ardent Partners’ newly-published State of Strategic Sourcing 2015: The Four Pillars of Sourcing Success, will examine the pressures and challenges facing sourcing leaders, today, as well as the strategies, capabilities, and technologies that they are bringing to bear in their battle to reduce costs, improve quality, and manage risk. It will also focus on the “four pillars of sourcing success,” those critical sub-process areas that comprise Strategic Sourcing – spend analysis, sourcing, contracts, and supplier management – and examine the strategies and techniques that Best-in-Class sourcing organizations use to outperform their competitors.

Join Andrew Bartolini, Chief Research Officer at Ardent Partners, as he presents the findings from his new report, The State of Strategic Sourcing 2015, and highlights the ideas of “supplier-centric” sourcing and risk management in a webinar sponsored by LexisNexis. Attendees of this webinar will:

• Hear how agile sourcing in 2015 incorporates collaborative and technology-driven strategies, particularly supplier management, to engage suppliers and other critical stakeholders sooner in the sourcing process.
• See how Best-in-Class sourcing teams leverage these same strategies and related capabilities to outperform the competition and deliver more value to the enterprise.
• Understand how advanced supplier-centric strategies related to risk and performance management are extending the value that sourcing teams can deliver.
• Understand how current or recent case studies in supply risk, such as conflict minerals compliance or unsafe working conditions, can suddenly and negatively impact an enterprise’s reputation and bottom line.
• Receive a series of actionable recommendations that sourcing teams can use to improve their operations, supply risk mitigation, and performance.

Webinar registrants will also receive a complimentary copy of the new report.

The State of Strategic Sourcing 2015: Supplier-Centric Sourcing

Date: Thursday, October 22, 2015

Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

 Webinar sponsored by LexisNexis

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