ProcureCon 2009
The direct & indirect strategic sourcing event for manufacturing procurement executives
Mark your calendars for ProcureCon 2009!
November 9-11, 2009
Las Vegas, NV
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Over 175 procurement executives met at ProcureCon 2008 to make sense of the current tumultuous business climate and identified ways to come out on top.
Session rooms and the Solution Zone were full of interactive discussions as attendees and speakers candidly shared their know-how in reducing working capital and applying inflation resistance tools at a time where credit is a company's scarcest resource.
The official post event report will be published shortly.
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The Top Five Takeaways Gained At ProcureCon 2008
- Strategically align your procurement strategy to your company-wide objectives and internal customers
- Advance supplier relations through collaboration in building trust, contract execution, value engineering, innovation management and risk mitigation
- Recruit and retain talent in the global and domestic supply chain, collaborating with universities to match real-life skill-set needs and capturing the knowledge of your aging workforce
- Address the long and short term effects of recession by re-designing existing supply models, procurement outsourcing, complying with export and IP regulations and handling the next phase in emerging market developments around the globe
- Tackle the last frontier in indirect: developing the indirect organization, global indirect sourcing and bringing professional spend under management
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Attendee Testimonials:
‘It was difficult to free up my schedule in budget season, but it was worth attending. Very good sessions and speakers’
– Quentin Roach, CPO, Bristol-Myers Squibb
‘Very useful and thorough, good forum to hear about other companies’ experiences. Attendees were a good cross section of high level professionals’
– Gregg Malicki, Executive VP, Woods Equipment Company
‘Great Conference’
– Nancy Schwenke, VP Purchasing, Schreiber Foods, Inc. |
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Find out what other past attendees had to say about ProcureCon!
ProcureCon 2008 Keynote Speakers Included:
James A. Ward
VP and CPO
Eli Lilly and Company |
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Farley Blackman
VP - Sustainable Cost Management
BP, Plc. |
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D.K. Singh
SVP, Enterprise Procurement
ConAgra Foods |
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Tim King
VP of Global Purchasing
The Dow Chemical Company |
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Farryn Melton
CPM, VP Global Strategic Sourcing, CPO
Amgen, Inc. |
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Alf Noto
VP Indirect Sourcing
Nokia |
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James L. Polak
Director, General Purchasing
PPG Industries, Inc.
2008 Pro of the Year – Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine |
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The ProcureCon Advisory Board
This selection of industry thought leaders devotes time and effort into ensuring that the content presented at ProcureCon is timely and addresses your most pressing challenges.
Brian Slobodow
Chief Operating Officer
Neways International |
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James L. Polak
Director, General Purchasing
PPG Industries, Inc. |
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John Proverbs
Senior Director Strategic Sourcing Procurement
KLA-Tencor |
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Michael J. Rager
VP Global Procurement (Indirect)
Diebold |
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Pat Egan
VP Worldwide Procurement
Pfizer |
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Pete Connelly
Chief Procurement Officer
Leggett & Platt |
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Scott Searls
Senior Vice President Procurement & Logistics
Alltel Communications |
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View The Full List Here |
