Where are you struggling in the Vendor & Supplier Management process?

Looking at the life cycle of your vendor contracts are you struggling with one of the following:

• Specifying exactly what you need in a format that prospects can accurately interpret?
• Sourcing the right people for the job?
• Negotiating the best performing contract for all concerned?
• Establishing high performance and accurate Service Level Agreements?
• Assimilating vendors and suppliers into your operation?
• Measuring performance?
• Building ongoing profitable relationships?
• Improving the performance of low performing vendors and contracts?

For each of these challenges and for every step, process or situation this year’s Strategic Vendor & Supplier Management conference can offer expertise to deliver best practice models.

This conference will investigate the whole life cycle of your contracts. The program has been carefully designed to investigate every strategy for each process. Experts working in the field will offer best practice methodology, provide provocative case examples and show the areas that will cause difficulty and how you can address them.

The reward for successful vendor & supplier management is an efficient operation. The result is a more productive and profitable organisation.

Getting it wrong can result in a myriad of difficulties from a loss of operational effectiveness, business culture upheaval, significant cost and at the very worst a legal battle and the financial and emotional burden of court.

Taking it all apart and looking at the individual pieces is an inspiring method of understanding the whole game

Whether you are managing a minimal, single sourced contract or developing a complex multi sourced vendor and supplier portfolio this conference is essential.

• Perfect your ability to accurately assess and define your needs
• Plan and write the specifications that attract the vendors that best fit your requirements
• Get the tips from the best operators on how you can be a contract negotiation expert
• Learn the magic of smoothing the process of assimilating new business entities and relationships
• Gain the skill and confidence to establish high performance and accurate service level agreements
• Find out how to effectively improve the performance of low performing vendors and contracts

Essential case studies from these industry greats

This is your greatest opportunity this year to be in a room with targeted professionals in the field of contract management.

Vicki Coleman
Group General Manager, ICT and Chief Information Officer for RailCorp and highly regarded for her experience in transforming poorly performing IT departments into dynamic and essential parts of the business.

John Dunn
IT Manager Hi Fert Pty Ltd, John has more than 20 years experience delivering systems advocacy and consulting. In the 90’s John worked at BP Oil Australia where he managed and maintained a data centre with 99.99% availability for more than three years.

Danny Davis
For more than 20 years IT and business management strategist, Danny has mentored and challenged the traditional thinking of large corporates, government departments and IT executives. Danny brings business management disciplines to the world of technology – raising the bar for CIOs.

Ron Philippkowski
Responsible for purchasing, contract development and management, and implementing the State Government’s Procurement Reform Agenda within the Department, winning two prestigious Treasurer’s “Innovation in Procurement” awards.

Bruce Ferguson
Bruce has worked internationally for over 25 years with executives on complex project execution issues. He has led the formation of Industry Working Groups for Finance and Telecommunications around complex project execution and is leading the AIPM’s industry reference groups. Bruce has worked with companies in the USA such as Walt Disney, GE Capital, Hughes Aircraft, Palo Verde Nuclear Power plant, and in Australasia companies such as ANZ bank, IAG/NRMA, ING, Telcom New Zealand and Suncorp. Bruce will bring his experience to the workshop in order to lead a discussion on the issues that surround the performance of performance based contracts.

Jim Bergman
Currently VP of Learning and Development for IACCM, Jim has previously supported multiple global locations, addressing strategic sourcing and legal issues concerning commodities and services valued at more than $1 billion annually.

Professor Eng Chew
Professor Chew is a former CIO of SingTel Optus, and has over 25 years of industry experience in IT and Telecommunications in Australia including senior roles with Telstra Research Laboratories, Australian Centre for Unisys Software, and Digital Equipment Corporation. His achievements include delivery of several hundreds of million Australian dollars of business value through business process re-engineering and organisational transformation. He held the UTS-Gartner Chair of Business and IT Strategy at UTS from 2005 -2008 and produced insightful research papers for Gartner on China’s ICT telecommunications industry market trends, China’s ICT R&D and education institutions, and China’s CIO leadership maturity.

If you are not yet ready to register, feel free to request a reminder nearer the time.

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