Strategic Sourcing and Procurement – Becoming a Critical Business Partner

Executive Ed Course | This program is completed

119 Main Street Little Rock, AR 72201 United States

Lecture Room

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2/19/2019 (one day)

8:30 AM-4:30 PM CDT on Tue

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$675.00

By developing strategic sourcing capabilities and procurement skills, managers can increase their contributions to the business and become an essential business partner their organization can’t live without. This course reviews strategic sourcing tools and methodology and discusses how to practically deploy the concepts into an organization effectively. Lunch and light snacks will be served.

Who Should Attend:

This course is ideal for procurement and sourcing professionals in any industry who are responsible for creating competitive environments and identifying cost savings opportunities. It is also a must for managers and executives who are responsible for supply chain processes and developing initiatives to support supply chain performance.

Benefits:

This course will explore how to become more strategic in approach and effective in action. Real life scenarios will be presented and discussed.

Learning Objectives:
• Explain the key objectives, benefits, and challenges of strategic sourcing
• Add key frameworks and strategies to your strategic sourcing toolkit
• Analyze an organizations current spend strategy
• Assess and prioritize opportunities for savings
• Explore how to deploy more strategic sourcing in your organization
• Develop an action plan for become more of a critical business partner
• Apply best practices and lessons learned in strategic sourcing effors: ts

Location:

Walton College at 2nd and Main, 119 Main Street, Little Rock, AR 72201

  • Special Note:

    If you are registering more than 4 people, contact execed@walton.uark.edu for additional registration options.

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Van Hoek, Ph.D., Remko

Remko van Hoek is a clinical full professor at the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas and an advisor to several companies on sourcing and procurement. He is also a visiting professor at the Cranfield School of Management in the UK and the 2018 Chair of the Board of Directors of CSCMP. He held supply chain and procurement executive roles in Europe and the US, with Nike and PwC and he was Chief Procurement Officer of the Walt Disney Company.