Fall 2019 Global Executive Summit - Carlsbad, CA




October 14, 2019 - October 16, 2019


SIG Global Executive Summits are 3-day events that are packed with the latest best practices, cost-cutting strategies, innovative processes and risk-mitigation approaches. Through CPO roundtables, keynote sessions, workshops, breakout sessions and networking events, you'll hear from industry thought leaders, discover the latest innovative trends and have the opportunity to network with like-minded professionals facing similar challenges.

Event Sponsor: 
American Express
Beeline
Codeforce 360
Connxus
Coupa
WNS Denali
Everest Group
GEP
Guidant Global
Ivalua
JK Advisory
Oliver Wyman
Magnit™
ProcureAbility
SAP Ariba
Sapience Analytics
Simplify Workforce
SirionLabs
Toptal
Workspend

OUR SPONSORS

Allegis Global Solutions is a leader in global talent solutions. To date, we support clients in more than 60 countries through regional hubs, matching our great people with businesses seeking to optimize their permanent and contingent workforces. For more information, please email NAinfo@allegisglobalsolutions.com or go to www.allegisglobalsolutions.com or call 410.579.3240.

Through our Global Commercial Services division, American Express offers powerful backing and support that helps companies of all sizes gain financial savings, control and efficiency. We provide a suite of payment and lending products, solutions for travel and everyday business spending, cross border payments, global currency solutions, and business financing. To learn more about Global Commercial Services visit http://www.americanexpress.com/us/credit-cards/business

App Orchid builds AI-powered apps that radically transform enterprise performance. ContractAI is App Orchid’s flagship contract acceleration suite that drastically reduces effort across the entire contract lifecycle by streamlining the analysis, creation and negotiation of contracts. ContractAI utilizes AI to analyze historical contracts, finding key insights and hidden risk. ContractAI helps create templates and author contracts based on terms that were proven win-win. ContractAI eliminates the painful redlining process by giving suppliers vetted clause options. Enterprises can streamline the terms of negotiation based on past experiences, reducing exposure to high-risk terms and conditions. ContractAI helps enterprises easily understand negotiation boundaries, legal and compliance implications, obligation intents, and permissible thresholds, so they can make better contracting decisions. ContractAI is built on the App Orchid platform which uses deep learning, natural language processing, and enterprise knowledge graphs to create powerful predictive apps. For more information please visit https://www.apporchid.com/solutions/contractai/.

Beeline helps leading enterprises manage their flexible workforce, including contractors, contingent, and project-based labor spend. Beeline Vendor Management System (VMS) is the only platform offering a single Software-as-a-Service solution for your entire non-employee workforce. Each Beeline solution leverages the powerful technology of the VMS including practical and sophisticated analytics, flexible workflow engine and system configuration, data security, and seamless integrations. Gain in-depth analysis of your cost, savings, operations, supplier performance, and other program metrics. Our ever-expanding global network of local knowledge provides cutting-edge technology, service-driven people and industry expertise to partner with you anywhere in the world. To learn more, visit www.beeline.com.

Canon Business Process Services leverages advanced technologies and solutions to deliver agility, exceptional workplace experiences and improved business performance. We achieve these results by applying our workforce management capabilities, Six Sigma methodologies and implementation expertise. With professionals across the US and in the Philippines, we have been named a Global Outsourcing 100 leader by IAOP for 15 straight years. Canon Business Process Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc. Learn more at cbps.canon.com and follow us on Twitter @CanonBPO.

CodeForce 360 is a growing IT staffing company which thrives on a seasoned team of IT experts, a palpable international presence, and the ability to leverage the best of professionals with razor-sharp skill-sets from its deep networks in the IT realm. Our objective is to deliver top-notch talent to our clients who include the likes of Fortune 500 corporations and to help them relish an unparalleled ROI. Our consistency is clearly reflected through our clients’ trust, our impeccable track record, and our reach that stretches to some of the most competitive IT markets across the planet.
http://www.codeforce.com

 

ConnXus supplier management technology solutions simplify the complexities of global supply chains and allow buyers to achieve their goals of responsible and sustainable sourcing. ConnXus is a NMSDC, CPUC, CAMSC and State of Ohio-certified minority-owned business enterprise based in Mason, Ohio with local, regional and international capabilities. To watch a brief demo or learn more about our software solutions, visit connxus.com. For general questions, email support@connxus.com or sales@connxus.com to schedule a live demo. 

Coupa Software enables businesses everywhere to recognize bottom-line financial success via Savings-as-a-Service. More than 500 customers headquartered in over 40 countries use Coupa to support business agility and reduce costs. Only Coupa provides an organic suite of true cloud applications including accounts payable, procurement, expense management, sourcing and inventory, allowing customers to realize a return on investment that starts within a few months and grows continually. Learn more at www.coupa.com and contact us: contactus@coupa.com. Read more at our company blog, Making Cents or follow @Coupa on Twitter.

Outcome-driven companies partner with WNS Denali to operationalize their Procurement function and improve financial performance and efficiency.

We work alongside our clients to co-create, implement, and execute next-generation customized operating models to increase the strategic impact of Procurement for their businesses.

Our procurement practitioners provide a range of advisory and managed services, along with enabling technology to help our clients build an integrated Procurement Ecosystem that empowers them to create more value and outperform in the market.

Everest Group is a leading research firm helping business leaders make confident decisions. We guide clients through today’s market challenges and strengthen their strategies by applying contextualized problem-solving to their unique situations. This drives maximized operational and financial performance and transformative experiences. Our deep expertise and tenacious research focused on technology, business processes, and engineering through the lenses of talent, sustainability, and sourcing delivers precise and action-oriented guidance. Find further details and in-depth content at www.everestgrp.com

Please see special SIG member benefits here.

GEP helps global enterprise operate more efficiently and effectively, gain competitive advantage, boost profitability, and maximize business and shareholder value.

Fresh thinking, innovative products, unrivaled domain and subject expertise, and smart, passionate people — this is how GEP creates and delivers unified supply chain solutions of unprecedented scale, power and effectiveness.

Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrants, Winner for Best Procurement Software and Best P2P Provider at the World Procurement Awards, Best Procurement Consultancy at CIPS Supply Management Awards, and Best Provider at the EPIC Procurement Excellence Awards, GEP is frequently honored as an innovator and leader in source-to-pay direct and indirect procurement software by Gartner, Forrester, IDC, Procurement Leaders, Spend Matters and CPO Rising.

GEP is also ranked leader in managed procurement services (procurement outsourcing) by Everest Group, NelsonHall, IDC, ISG, HfS and IAOP. In addition, the primary research firm in the management consulting sector, ALM Intelligence, ranks GEP leader in procurement strategy and supply chain consulting.

With 21 offices and operations centers in Europe, Asia and the Americas, Clark, New Jersey-based GEP helps enterprises worldwide realize their strategic, operational and financial objectives. To learn more about our comprehensive range of software and services, please visit www.gep.com.

 

Grubhub is an online food ordering service that makes it easy to feed the office. We help companies simplify the process of ordering meals and paying for those purchases. As a result we save our clients up to 30 percent on food-related costs, while making everyone happier and more productive. Perfect for employee meal perk programs, group orders, and office celebrations, we feed thousands of hungry teams across the US and London.  Visit us at corporate.grubhub.com.

Guidant Global provides global workforce management solutions (MSP, RPO & SOW) that help companies find the best contingent and permanent talent.

We champion #ABetterWay – a forward-thinking way of working; moving away from the embedded staffing industry mentality of ‘recruitment by numbers’ and taking a wider perspective, by shifting the focus to people – the vibrant force that drives thriving businesses.

We have unprecedented insight into the world at work. Guidant is active in 80+ countries, managing 200,000+ engagements, for 125+ clients each year. Global talent shortages are rife. Our insight helps businesses buck the trend to get the best talent.

Ivalua is a leading provider of cloud-based Spend Management software. Our complete, unified platform empowers businesses to effectively manage all categories of spend and all suppliers, increasing profitability, improving ESG performance, lowering risk and improving employee productivity. We are trusted by hundreds of the world’s most admired brands and recognized as a leader by Gartner and other analysts. Learn more at www.ivalua.com. Follow us at @Ivalua.

Viet Ho is an internationally recognized expert in Procurement. His perceptive insights and knowledge wealth are built on his 25+ years of transformational experiences at A. T. Kearney, Accenture, JPMorgan Chase, and Russell Investments.

In 2018, Viet formed JKAdvisory (“JKA”). JKA is specifically targeted at assisting organizations demonstrate Procurement value to leadership. Under the JKA umbrella, Viet has gained clients’ accolades for his innovative solutions to move Procurement organizations from tactical-to-strategic-to-transformational.

The JKA’s team is located in the U.S. with remote resources for offshore capabilities. JKA’s services provide real solutions – from strategic initiatives in Sourcing Transformation and Procurement Buy Desk, operational challenges in P2P and Contracting, to immediate low-cost tactical issues in Contract Database, Supplier Onboarding and Spend Analytics.

LeaseAccelerator is a Software-as-a-Service provider in the fast-growing Enterprise Lease Accounting software sector. We recently raised $30M in our Series B funding round from Insight Venture Partners after a record-breaking year in 2017 in which we tripled revenues. LeaseAccelerator is the world’s first software application designed specifically for Enterprise Lease Accounting. We help Fortune 500 companies in three areas: (1) Lease Sourcing - Save money on financing terms by more efficiently sourcing new equipment leases, (2) Lease Performance - Reduce evergreen fees by proactively managing your leases through end-of-term, and (3) Lease Accounting - Comply with new IFRS and FASB accounting rules governing leases. For more information, visit our website at https://explore.leaseaccelerator.com/

For over 20 years, nextSource has been helping procurement leaders drive cost savings and improve compliance in the sourcing of contingent labor. Our managed services programs (MSP) streamline the management of temporary staffing suppliers, and our statement of work (SOW) solution provides oversight and governance in project-based work. As pioneers in the workforce industry, we know how select and implement the right technologies that match our clients’ needs to bring visibility, reporting, analytics and capture rogue spend. At its core, our approach is consultative, vendor-neutral, and technology agnostic. For more information, visit us at www.nextSource.com. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter

 

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting that combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. 

Oliver Wyman's global Value Sourcing and Supply Chain Practice is one of our key capabilities in Operational Efficiency and helps organizations transform procurement into a strong competitive advantage, delivering sustained value. 

Our dedicated team of 20 Partners and 200+ experienced consultants and managers based in North America, Europe and Middle East is supported by the Procurement Expertise Center. This network of experts provides in-depth category expertise, supplier market insight as well as methodologies and tools development support. 

For more information, visit https://www.oliverwyman.com or email valuesourcing@oliverwyman.com

 

The PeopleTicker is a compensation research solution that empowers Procurement, HR and SOW Project leaders with knowledge to take control of negotiations and effectively manage their labor spend.  Behind PeopleTicker's compensation results, lives and breathes an organization of professionals dedicated to helping companies prosper and expand by making the most informed pricing & hiring decisions possible.  Whether you choose the Full-Service Enterprise solution or our Self-Service Job Library Store for on-demand benchmarking, you continually benefit from monthly updates to support direct sourcing and retentioncontract-to-hire conversionsgig, project, and contract workers. For more info, you can visit us at https://peopleticker.com. You can also contact us directly at 844.887.5501

Magnit™ is a global leader and pioneer in contingent workforce management. Our industry-leading Integrated Workforce Management (IWM) platform is supported by 30+ years of innovation, modern software, proven expertise, and world-class data and intelligence. It enables companies to optimize talent and diversity goals while achieving operational and financial success. With Magnit, companies can adapt quickly to the evolution of work to grow their extended workforce with greater agility, transparency, and speed.

ProcureAbility, a Jabil company, is the leading provider of procurement services, offering advisory, managed services, digital, staffing, and recruiting solutions. For more than 25 years, we have focused exclusively on helping clients elevate their procurement function.

We combine leading methodologies, analytics, market intelligence, and industry benchmarks with our uniquely flexible and customizable service delivery model. Global organizations of all sizes trust ProcureAbility to transform their procurement operations, drive growth, and reimagine what’s possible.

Let ProcureAbility help you reimagine your procurement capabilities.

For more information, visit www.ProcureAbility.com.

RapidRatings is transforming the way the world’s leading companies manage enterprise and financial risk. RapidRatings provides the most sophisticated analysis of the financial health of public and private companies in the world. The company’s analytics system provides predictive insights into third-party partners, suppliers, vendors, customers and securities issuers. Every business conversation becomes more productive, transparent and efficient with the RapidRatings Financial Health System.

SAP Intelligent Spend and Business Network: Manage all sources of spend for increased control and business resilience

The SAP Intelligent Spend Management and Business Network include SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass, SAP Concur and SAP S/4HANA-based offerings for operational procurement, delivering a comprehensive suite for goods and services procurement, external workforce management and travel and expense. SAP Ariba solutions provide collaborative commerce capabilities from sourcing and orders through invoice and payment along with expertise to help customers optimize their spend. The solutions drive simple, intelligent exchanges between millions of buyers and suppliers across both direct and indirect expense categories, improve collaboration and deliver higher visibility.

Solve business issues by capturing, analyzing, and sharing spend data to achieve fast savings and ROI with market-leading solutions that can scale and grow with your company today and wherever it goes tomorrow.

www.ariba.com or contact www.ariba.com/contact-us

 
Know how your business really works. Partnering with companies around the world, Sapience Analytics delivers data and insights to amplify workplace productivity across people, processes, and technology. Founded in 2009, Sapience focuses on work effort data trends using Sapience analytics, our flagship analytics, insights and decision support platform. With trillions of hours of work data collected and analyzed, Sapience enables executives and managers save money by better utilizing available talent, optimizing the acquisition process and preventing overpayment for services received. For more information, visit http://www.sapienceanalytics.com

Workday Strategic Sourcing is the sourcing and supplier engagement platform trusted by procurement teams globally. The intuitive, cloud-based solution - encompassing everything from project intake to RFx and contracts to supplier management - helps streamline the source to contract process and empowers collaboration and decision making to drive better business outcomes.  www.workday.com

VNDLY- A Workday Company transforms how companies manage their extended workforces. Our modern, cloud-based platform and pre-built API integrations allow us to create and support technology ecosystems while fostering digital transformations. Our clients, including Fortune 500 companies, benefit from VNDLY’s configurable interface that allows changes to program management as quickly as the market demands. Our platform is composed of four modules: contingent workforce managementstatement of work management, independent contractor compliance, and total talent acquisition. For more information, visit www.VNDLY.com.

Seal Software is the leading provider of contract discovery, data extraction and analytics. With Seal’s machine learning and NLP technologies, companies can find contracts of any file type across their networks, quickly understand what risks or opportunities are hidden in their contracts and place them in a centralized repository. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seal empowers enterprises around the world to maximize revenue opportunities, reduce costs, and mitigate risks associated with contractual documents, systems, and processes. For more information, visit Seal Software at seal-software.com.

Simplify Workforce is our transformational workforce innovation platform. We have the most dynamic tech stack in the market, which provides a rapidly deployable, integration-savvy, and no walls configuration solution. SimplifyVMS is our cloud-based contingent workforce management and services procurement solution, which provides an all-encompassing approach to managing all aspects of your contingent workforce and enables companies to increase profitability, mitigate risk, and source qualified talent by optimizing their extended workforce.

Simplify focuses on developing a true business partnership with each of our clients, from implementation through production, which establishes trust and confidence in a collaboratively created VMS strategy and generates positive business outcomes for our clients. For more information, you can visit us at http://simplifyworkforce.com/. You can also contact us directly at 706.577.1143.

SirionLabs, the SaaS leader in enterprise contract management (CLM), helps enterprises manage the complete contracting lifecycle on a single, easy-to-use platform. SirionLabs’ proprietary solution, Sirion, applies breakthroughs in artificial intelligence to meet the needs of businesses in the digital age. Sirion’s AI-powered capabilities – from smart contract authoring to auto-contract extraction, real-time performance management, automated invoice validation, and data-based relationship management – enable enterprises to drive business velocity and outcomes, reduce risk and enhance revenue/savings in commercial engagements. SirionLabs enables 200+ leading companies such as Vodafone, Unilever, BP and Credit Suisse to manage 3.5+ million contracts across 100+ countries.

Toptal is the leading on-demand professional network that connects the world’s top talent with leading corporations. Toptal enables Enterprises to accelerate projects and quickly adapt to innovative technology and disruptive competition. With Toptal, business leaders are no longer limited by painful internal recruiting processes and geographical constraints. Instead, they can instantly connect and start working with the perfect software engineering, design, or business talent for the job.  www.toptal.com/enterprise.

Virtual Operations is a specialist Intelligent Automation and Digital Enablement Company.

Virtual Operations have been helping our clients adopt automation technologies and develop digital strategy for almost a decade. We evolved from deploying RPA-only solutions, to combining process excellence techniques with intelligent automation technologies (Robotics, AI, Machine Learning & Analytics), enabling our clients to rapidly become self-sufficient. 

 With operations globally, we support a number of regions and industries, successfully combining automation technologies with process excellence methodologies to deliver resilient digital programs. Our global automation Academy is industry leading, enabling students and teams with the skills necessary to run and sustain a digital program.

Workspend is a global leader in providing innovative talent supply chain solutions to mid-market and enterprise-level clients, including the Fortune 500, and the public sector. Workspend offers two different service offerings: MSP Lite and Full MSP. They are both flexible, unbundled, and take a modularized and data centric approach to managed services. Through its expansive reach and extensive experience, Workspend delivers highly-customized, outcomes-focused solutions on a local, national, and global basis. Visit our website: www.workspend.com 

For more information: marketing@workspend.com