Ardent Partners Monthly Webinar Series’ continues a tradition started during the pandemic last year of bringing multiple CPOs together for an extended 90-minute livestream webinar.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER – CPO Rising 2K21: Still Rising

Join us on May 26th at 11 AM ET for a power-packed webinar featuring 8 procurement experts including a CPO Panel that focuses on the “still rising” role and impact of procurement and the CPO, a deep dive case study into strategic sourcing excellence, and an exciting roundtable on the importance of contract compliance (and yes, we meant exciting!!). Each segment will also feature a few highlights from Ardent’s new State of Procurement 2021 research. The second segment is a study into how strategic sourcing helped ensure business continuity.

How Sonoco Drives Impact & Procurement’s Evolution During a Pandemic

The speed and complexity of business continues to accelerate forcing procurement professionals to adapt to new market conditions and react to new opportunities while maintaining discipline and efficiency. During this discussion, Sonoco Director of Global Strategic Sourcing and Services Category Management, Steve Charles, will share his experience ensuring business continuity while leading a remote team. Steve has gone through the process of digitizing his sourcing, and will go over how that technology has benefited Sonoco. Steve, along with Chris Crane from Workday, will also discuss some of the creative ways he and his team leveraged their technology to solve business needs and drive value. This includes the strategies of managing a remote workforce and utilizing new technology to expand the quality and quantity of their competitive RFPs.

The longer arc of procurement’s evolution continues, but more recently, there are several stark factors driving the profession ahead. The ability to adapt has been a challenge for many during the pandemic. During this discussion, Steve will go over how he and his team laid the foundation for procurement’s evolution, including improved reporting and visibility to become a smarter operation, more efficiency across the scope of sourcing operations to enable faster execution, and increased collaboration with key business stakeholders to make a more meaningful impact.

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Panelists

Steve Charles, Director of Global Strategic Sourcing and Services Category Management, Sonoco

Chris Crane, Principal Product Strategist, Workday

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