Collaborative Supplier Governance

TRANSFORMING FROM BASIC TO COLLABORATIVE AND SMART SUPPLIER GOVERNANCE

     
Michael Wheeler, Supply Chain Practice Leader, Avasant

More and more industries and companies are embracing supplier governance and adopting best practices. However, sourcing deals have become much more complex with hybrid cloud systems, outcome-based commercial models, and dozens or even hundreds of service provider contracts. Managing so many vendors makes it difficult to track value delivered, and the increased complexity and cost of governance can eat into the promised savings. The keynote speech will share what needs to be done to achieve higher value through collaborative and smart governance.

1. The complexity of sourcing deals and supplier relationships dictates that we must develop supplier governance beyond the basics.

2. The convergence of supply chain management and supplier governance is driving the need to transform the way we manage and govern providers and partners.

3. With a foundation of best practices to control supplier processes and deliver against SLAs, what is needed to achieve collaborative and smart supplier governance?

4. How actual large enterprise customers are achieving value through collaborative and smart governance.

CHALLENGES OF GOVERNANCE: TRENDS IN PROCUREMENT, CONTRACTING AND VENDOR MANAGEMENT

Jim Lee, Global leader of the Governance, Risk & Compliance Practice, Avasant
Michael Nacarato, COP, Senior Director, Transamerica
Ves Kjenstad, Vice President, IT Business Operations, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Mark Voytek, COP, Founder and Managing Partner, Voytechnology Partners, TCS Strategic Advisor and Member of IAOP's Leadership Hall of Fame

New demands mean that the outsourcing relationship must do it all: Transform and optimize, take cost out, create competitive advantages, comply with ESG complexities, AND maintain security.  But how?!

This panel of experts will discuss current and future trends and the challenges they create, including:

• Managing well from the beginning to ensure and enable improved relationships
• The role of ESG in governance
• Complexities of outsourcing to other regions
  
  
  
  
   

RETURNING TO THE WORKPLACE SHOULD BE EASY – SO WHY ISN’T IT?

Ves Kjenstad, Vice President, IT Business Operations, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Joe O’Boyle, VP Operations, Vee Technologies
Mark Voytek, COP, Founder and Managing Partner, Voytechnology Partners, TCS Strategic Advisor and Member of IAOP's Leadership Hall of Fame

The pandemic continues to reshape the workplace on a global scale.  Stakeholders on all sides of the sourcing equation are being affected.  Vfes and Joe will talk about their own experiences and how to manage these challenges, including:

• Quiet Quitting
• Life/Work/Balance
• The Great Resignation
• Data Security
• Challenges of Hybrid Meetings
• Finding and Managing Talent 
• Bringing the workplace to the employees

WHAT WILL KEEP US UP AT NIGHT
 

Jim Lee, Global leader of the Governance, Risk & Compliance Practice, Avasant
Hannah Ford, Supply and Third-Party Risk Intelligence Manager, Supply Wisdom
Melissa Fitzgerald-Fee, Director of Vendor Management Office & Procurement, HMSA

Predicting the future is next to impossible but this panel is going to make sure you are prepared for what might come next and how best to manage risks like:

• Location and Jurisdiction based disruptions
  • e.g. extreme weather, infrastructure issues, strikes
• Regulatory
  • e.g. ESG demands, the 4th to Nth party dilemma, jurisdictional inconsistencies
• Economic
  • e.g. high energy costs, energy and power availability, cost of capital and reduced credit availability
• Cyber
  • e.g. less control over remote workers, increase in ransomware, phishing
     

NO PROBLEM GETS BETTER WITH TIME:  BACK TO THE BASICS – THE IMPORTANCE OF TRANSPARENCY

Audrey Cushing, COP-GOV, Director, Business Operations & Quality, Vee Technologies
Mark Voytek, COP, Founder and Managing Partner, Voytechnology Partners, TCS Strategic Advisor and Member of IAOP's Leadership Hall of Fame

If transparency is so important to the success of outsourcing relationships in these turbulent times, why is it so hard?

Audrey will share her transparency journey, why it's critical in successful partnerships, and how you can add value by reducing redundant activities, improving efficiency, increasing cost-effectiveness and ensuring appropriate governance through open dialogue and communication.