In the midst of a global surge in innovation that has spread across all geographies and nearly every supply market, the winners in business will be the agile organizations that can tap into expertise and find value wherever it exists in the market.
Sourcing has never had a greater potential to impact enterprise performance than it has today, in 2015.  Sourcing leaders are on point and its more important than ever for them to tap this potential.

Join Andrew Bartolini, Chief Research Officer at Ardent Partners as he presents the findings from his latest report with a special focus on the  “four pillars of sourcing success,” those critical sub-process areas that comprise Strategic Sourcing, spend analysis, sourcing, contracts, and supplier management.

Key takeaways:

• Insights into the 4 pillars of Strategic Sourcing
• In depth analysis of the critical process areas of Strategic Sourcing
• Impact of Strategic Sourcing to organizational performance

Joining us in the webinar is:

Andrew Bartolini, Chief Research Officer, Ardent Partners

Andrew is a globally recognized expert in Sourcing, Procurement and Supply Management. At Ardent Partners, he focuses his research and efforts on helping enterprises develop and execute strategies to achieve operational excellence within their procurement and finance departments. He also publishes the popular blog; CPO Rising.

Richard Waugh, VP-Corporate Development, Zycus Inc.

Richard has an extensive background in B2B E-Commerce, going back to his early career at GE, where he helped launch GE’s Trading Process Network (TPN), the first on-line Marketplace for Sourcing and Procurement in the mid 1990’s. He was Co-Founder of B2eMarkets, one of the first SaaS (Software as a Service) Sourcing Suite providers and later covered the Supply Management market as an Industry Analyst for the Aberdeen Group. He has helped global clients achieve world-class P2P system adoption and performance