Top Procurement Strategies for tough Economic Times

Most of today's leading-edge strategic procurement and supply management organizations were born of economic adversity. Fierce global competition, crashing revenues, rampant inflation, and the like inspired their CEOs and CFOs to invest in and empower their procurement teams to keep their bottoms line healthy and ensure corporate survival through tough economic times.

Now, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicting "particularly weak" economic growth in 2009 across all of the G7 countries, it's time for a new wave of elite procurement groups to emerge. This WEBCAST will convene a panel of senior procurement executives to discuss key strategies for offsetting negative economic conditions, delivering top performance results, and gaining greater control and influence over total corporate spending in the process.

Subjects for discussion will include:

1. Loading the procurement pipeline with innovative cost savings initiatives and opportunities
2. Collaborating across the enterprise to improve working capital and other aspects of corporate financial performance
3. Where low-cost country sourcing fits into strategic planning for procurement in 2009