Key Supplier Collaboration
August 6-8, 2008
Chicago, IL
How can you incorporate collaboration into your supplier relationships and your organization?
Synopsis
Business in 2008 is changing more rapidly than ever before. This CSSL program will assist senior supply management executives to identify their key suppliers and how to collaborate with them to increase profitability and deliver more value to their organizations. Hear proven approaches to help change the supply organization's mindset from event-based sourcing to ongoing supplier management. Discover how to introduce supplier collaboration internally and externally to key stakeholders. CSSL program participants will hear several case studies involving various industries that will illustrate successes and critical learnings. While most collaboration efforts are very successful, we will also discuss how to recognize the signs and implement the steps to change or suspend the supplier relationship.
Join the CSSL faculty in Chicago to learn how to implement a key supplier collaboration initiative and network with other senior supply executives.
Program Focus
During this interactive executive program, you will discover how to effectively collaborate with key stakeholders and your organization.
Program Themes:
- Define what collaboration is and what it isn't,
- Discover how to identify, segment and engage your key suppliers,
- Learn about moving from an event-based sourcing mindset to an ongoing supplier management mindset,
- Determine how to define, initiate and implement collaboration,
- Discuss collaborating in a rapidly changing environment of inflation, faster product life cycles, tough competition and ever-changing technologies,
- Examine a Supplier Relationship Management Maturity Model to improve organizational effectiveness,
- Hear about research results and case studies from customer-supplier collaborations across industries,
- Explore how to take the collaboration case to the organization, defining roles and managing on an ongoing basis,
- Find out how others have defined success and set metrics that matter to key stakeholders, and,
- Learn how to recognize the signs and implement the steps to change or suspend the supplier relationship to ensure your organization is protected.
The Center
The A.T. Kearney Center for Strategic Supply Leadership at the Institute for Supply Management™ is an exclusive thought-development forum of C-level supply management executives, CPOs, and other senior executives who work through the challenges and opportunities of the next two to four years to build competitive business and supply capabilities today, while providing unique executive development and networking opportunities.