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Tackling the Bottlenecks in Your Enterprise: Optimizing Technology, Processes and Results

Cardinal Health, Inc. | Emptoris, an IBM Company

Cardinal Health, Inc. is a Fortune 20 health care services company whose essential business is improving the efficiency and cost-...
It Can Be Done: Drastic Direct Material Cost Reduction While Ramping Up Production

This session will present the blueprint for ramping up a new product, specifically how to rapidly move from limited, high-cost, capacity constrained, and long-lead prototype shops to a more...
Getting More Bang for Your Marketing Buck

How can chief marketing officers (CMOs) best improve their companies’ return on marketing investment (ROMI)? Making certain their creative is producing effective ads is not enough. In order to...
Negotiating Cloud Contracts: An Annual Perspective from Buyers and Suppliers

Cloud contracts continue to present issues and risks. This session provided the perspectives of both buyers and suppliers on negotiating cloud contracts based on an annual survey. Presenters...
Negotiating and Implementing Contracts with Offshore Cloud Providers to Effectively Mitigate Risk and Maximize Success: A Buyer's Perspective (with a focus on India)

Enterprises are increasingly contracting with offshore providers to procure and deploy cloud based offerings in their IT environments. This allows them to reap significant potential benefits such...
Greening Your Supply Chain for Improved Business Performance (PDF file)

Green Supply Chain Program is built on tight collaboration with suppliers

– To adopt more environmentally
sustainable business practices
across the Supply Chain
...
Bank It: Optimizing the Source to Contract Process to Maximize and Lock in Savings

This session will examine the principles, processes and technologies that Cardinal Health used to make its business more efficient, with a specific focus on the sourcing and contract management...
Risky Business: Why Third Party Management Matters

Whether it is the mitigation of supply chain disruption or driving new levels of collaboration and innovation with your third parties, having a strong supplier and vendor management program in...
Session 5: Achieve Cost Leadership By Unlocking Significant Value From Strategic Incumbent Supplier Relationships (PDF file)

Sourcing methodologies are like PCs ,With traditional approaches, companies have driven
value from the “easy” and straight forward categories ,However, existing business constraints prevent...
The Three C’s of Procurement Organizational Change Management – Communications, Communications, and Communications

Table of Contents

Introduction
Keys to Developing an Effective Communication Plan
Case Study—An ACS Success Story