Meeting/Event Information

Please Note: Food will be ordered at 5:30 pm, Presentation begins at 6:00 pm

Leading Practices to Help Suppliers Do More for Your Organization

Please join APICS and ISM for an evening to hear speaker, Jeffrey Berk, discuss how companies can get their suppliers to do more for their organizations.

According to research, a focus on supplier management can result in 10% bottom-line performance improvement. Ten percent might not sound like much but if you have a supply category with spend of $1,000,000, that’s $100,000! Yet many entities are dissatisfied with supplier performance as seen by research citing 71% of organizations are ready and willing to switch suppliers. ClientLoyalty has studied this issue. Through discussions with procurement and supply chain executives as well as vendors and client success teams, we’ve derived a short-list of ‘better’ practices that can help you help your suppliers do more. This session will explore these practices that can lead to bottom-line savings and increased performance from your suppliers.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand current state of supplier performance management.
2. Discuss better practices that can help suppliers do more for your organization.

Presenter Biography:  Jeffrey Berk, COO

As COO Jeffrey is responsible for the day-to-day operations including supply chain, procurement, supplier management, HR, customer success, finance, sales and marketing. Jeffrey works closely on product design and company strategy as well. Prior to ClientLoyalty, Jeffrey was the COO of KnowledgeAdvisors and led the creation of day to day operations ranging from supply chain and procurement to marketing and customer success and international operations and inside sales. Recently Jeffrey was COO of dscout, a mobile market research company where he cultivated core financial, business strategy, procurement and sales functions.   Jeffrey is an adjunct professor of operations at Loyola University and has authored 3 books on analytics and process improvement.

WHEN:  Tuesday, March 14th

WHERE:  Montgomery Inn

TIME:  5:00 pm to 7:00 pm