Note: This program is one hour in length and qualifies for one CEH at ISM.

If you're considering an initiative designed to lower procurement costs, the best place to start is by gaining control over your existing contracts.

In this Web seminar, you will learn:

1. How you can reduce costs, identify opportunities, and reap significant operational benefits by controlling and managing the supplier contracts you already have in place

2. How, by implementing a contract management solution first, you will also improve the results of subsequent procurement initiatives by providing the insight, analysis, and control necessary to ensure that your initiatives are fully realized

3. The pitfalls that await if you launch e-procurement, spend management, outsourcing, centralization, or other procurement initiatives without having a contract management solution in place.

Panelist Jason Rushin has developed a four-part whitepaper series designed to explain why contract performance management is the critical first step for any broad procurement initiative. With a focus on Spend Management, this paper discusses the benefits of implementing a contract performance management system prior to initiating other spend management projects:

Part One - Spend Management
After you register for this web seminar, you will receive an email link to part one.

Part Two - Spend Centralization
An email link to part two will be sent to all to those registered when it comes available in November, prior to the event.

Parts Three and Four - Outsourcing and Globalization
Will be available in 2006.

Panelists

Jason Rushin
Nextance Marketing

Jason Rushin is a recognized expert on purchasing and procurement, having built deep knowledge on the subject as an independent strategic sourcing consultant, as a Consulting Manager with a global management consulting company, and as a Team Manager at FreeMarkets (now part of Ariba). Jason also has a background in engineering and manufacturing, having worked in the steel industry.

Roberta Duffy
Editor, Inside Supply Management
The Institute for Supply Management

Moderator