Webcast: Beyond The Hype: Building a Sustainable Supply Risk Management Program

June 23, 2009 8:00pm EDT

Supplier bankruptcies, shipping delays, and quality problems continue to capture the headlines of late. Noncompliance with regulations and trade practices worsen the situation. Being reactive and waiting for things to happen is no longer an option. Nor is passing the spend buck and waiting for another internal group (e.g., finance, operations) to leap into risk mitigation action alone. To avoid supply disruptions, procurement must take action, leveraging new best practices to keep supply risk in check. What can you do today to turn a supply risk art into a science, establishing an effective and sustainable supplier risk management program?

This webinar will explore the integral elements for success: How to identify and prioritize supplier risks, how to anticipate supply disruptions, and how to establish a proactive culture of supplier risk management across your business. You will learn:

• How spend visibility, supplier performance, risk, and compliance mandates interrelate when it comes to providing critical insights to prioritize and manage risk
• What new risks companies will face as the global economy bottoms out and begins to enter a recovery period
• Why simply monitoring third-party supplier financial information and credentials are critical, but alone insufficient
• How solutions and services from SAP BusinessObjects and Bristlecone can help you to accelerate delivery of an effective and sustainable supplier risk program

Moderator
Paul Teague
Chief Editor
Purchasing

Featured Guests
Jason Busch
Managing Director, Azul Partners
&
Executive Editor, Spend Matters

Naresh Hingorani
Practice Area Leader
Integrated Sourcing & Procurement
Bristlecone

Padmini Ranganathan
Director, Solutions Marketing
Enterprise Performance Management
SAP BusinessObjects

Our guests will share real-world experiences and respond to your questions. Take advantage also of promotional offers by attending the webinar. Mark your calendars, invite your colleagues, bring your notebook and get ready to learn.

This Purchasing Magazine learning event is brought to you as a courtesy of
SAP, Bristlecone

Posted Jun 12, 2009