ProcureCon 2008
The direct & indirect strategic sourcing event for manufacturing procurement executives
November 10 – 12, 2008
JW Marriott Las Vegas
Summerlin, NV
Top Five Takeaways You’ll Gain 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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At ProcureCon 2008 You’ll Learn How To Survive and THRIVE In An Economic Downturn:
In the current economic downturn, all company eyes are on procurement to deliver the cost savings the company needs to survive and thrive.
In recent years, we have all been talking about procurement making contributions to the organization well beyond the normal financial measures by heading up extra-curricular initiatives such as globalization, SC design, Risk management, Divestiture Planning, M&A and green initiatives.
It’s good to create these opportunities, but especially in times like these procurement first needs to be viewed as a contributor to the bottom line. It is important to align procurement metrics to the CPO/CEO/CFO corporate agenda and focus procurement efforts in the right place. And that’s where ProcureCon comes in: |
“The networking at ProcureCon is extremely worthwhile – the chance to share strategic directions and issues with other procurement executives is invaluable!”
Michael Massetti
Sr Director, Supplier Management
Lucent Technologies |
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ProcureCon is the direct and indirect strategic sourcing event for manufacturers, featuring a 40+ speaker faculty and attracting approx. 200 procurement directors/VP/CPOs from Fortune 1000 companies.
Find out what other past attendees had to say about ProcureCon!
Our distinguished speaker faculty includes:
- Farley Blackman, Vice President - Sustainable Cost Management, BP, Inc.
- Brian Slobodow, Chief Operating Officer, Neways International
- Marika Lindstrom, Director Global Business Services, AMD
- Geraint John, Editor, CPO Agenda
- Robert Kane, Director Strategic Sourcing and Supply Management, Weyerhaeuser Company
- James L. Polak, Director, General Purchasing, PPG Industries, Inc.
- Joseph Richardson, Manager of Global Sourcing, FMC Technologies
- Ken Mitchell, VP Production Purchasing FX Acquired Products, Global Purchasing, Xerox Corporation
- Michael J. Rager, VP Global Procurement (Indirect), Diebold
- Pete Connelly, Chief Procurement Officer, Leggett & Platt
- Scott Searls, Senior Vice President Procurement & Logistics, Alltel Communications
- Joe Siciliano, Procurement Director, Reader’s Digest
- Darryl Husenits, General Manager – Supply Chain Management, Consol Energy (tbc)
- Tim King, VP of Purchasing or Brad Gray, Global Director of Purchasing, Dow
- Alf Noto, VP Indirect Sourcing, Nokia
- Caldwell Hart, Director Global Indirect Sourcing, Dresser-Rand (tbc)
- Benjamin S. Graham, Vice President, Bell Incorporated
- Chris Osen, VP Supply Management, MeadWestVaco
- D.K. Singh, Sr. VP, Enterprise Procurement, ConAgra Foods
- Gregg H. Malicki, Executive Vice President, Office of the Chairman, Woods Equipment Company
- Sanjay L. Ahire, Ph.D., Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
- Scott Charon, Program Manager, Design for the Environment, Herman Miller
- Howard Levy, CPO – Strategic Sourcing, Biomet, Inc.
- Edna Conway, Senior Director, Advanced Compliance and Social Responsibility, Global Supply Chain Management, Cisco Systems, Inc.
- James N. Wisner, C.P.M., CPIM, P.E., PMP, Global Procure-to-Pay Hardware Process, IBM
- John W. Henke, Professor of Marketing in the School of Business Administration, Oakland University
- Mark Triguba, Director of Supply Chain, Johnson Controls
- Malik Naseem, Director, Global Sourcing, Terex
- Daniel Carlson, Head, Finance and Sourcing Operations, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc.
- Scott Gaskill, Director Supply Management - General Procurement, United Technologies Corporation
- Brian Huewe, Director, Global Sourcing, Goodrich Corporation
The ProcureCon Advisory Board
This selection of industry thought leaders devotes time and effort into ensuring that the content presented at ProcureCon 2008 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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