Aberdeen's Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) Summit Is Revered as the Global Meeting Place for Leading Procurement Executives to Come and Discuss Strategies for Turning Supply Management Into a Competitive Weapon
-- Roy Anderson -- CPO & VP Global Procurement, Travel & Publishing, MetLife -- Albert Perruzza -- SVP Global Operations & Business Redesign, The Reader's Digest Assoc. -- Nat Leonard -- VP of Purchasing and Information Technology, Veyance -- Uldis Sipols -- Vice President of Global Product Supply Purchases, Proctor & Gamble -- Joe Black -- CPO, Aetna -- Frank Dimos -- CPO and VP of Finance, Convergys -- Michael Treacy -- Best-selling Author -- Howard Richman -- Executive Director, Global Procurement, Merck -- Peter Connelly -- CPO, Leggett & Platt -- Shelley Stewart -- Sr VP, Operational Excellence and CPO, Tyco International -- Lisa Marie Meehan -- Director of Travel and Procured Services, Merck -- Kirk Eberhart -- Global Supply Chain Director, Material Sciences -- Miguel Miciano -- Director, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement, Amgen -- Mike Katzorke -- Former VP of Supply Chain, Smiths Aerospace -- Jean-Jacques Beaussart -- CPO, National City Corp -- John Mayes -- Associate VP & CPO, Yale University -- Scott L. Singer -- Director, UTC Global Supply Management, United Technologies -- Katherine O'Flaherty -- Sr. Operations Manager, Pratt & WhitneyThe summit will bring together senior purchasing, finance and supply chain executives around the following topics:
-- The CPO's Strategic Agenda -- Procurement in the 21st Century -- Globalization and the CPO -- Breakout sessions: Supply Going Green, Strategic Sourcing, Procurement Outsourcing -- Breakout sessions: Spend Analysis, Contract Labor, Telecom -- The Convergence of Procurement and Travel -- Managing Print/Marketing Spend -- Design-to-Source (Procurement & Product Team) -- Collaboration -- The Key to Procurement and Supply Management Success -- How People Management Improves Spend ManagementFor registration and event information, visit: http://www.aberdeen.com/events/live/cpo07/default.asp About Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company Aberdeen Group is a leading provider of fact-based research and market intelligence that delivers demonstrable results. Having benchmarked more than 30,000 companies in the past two years, Aberdeen is uniquely positioned to educate users to action: driving market awareness, creating demand, enabling sales, and delivering meaningful return-on-investment analysis. As the trusted advisor to the global technology markets, corporations turn to Aberdeen for insights that drive decisions. As a Harte-Hanks Company, Aberdeen plays a key role of putting content in context for the global direct and targeted marketing company. Aberdeen's analytical and independent view of the "customer optimization" process of Harte-Hanks (Information - Opportunity - Insight - Engagement - Interaction) extends the client value and accentuates the strategic role Harte-Hanks brings to the market. For additional information, visit Aberdeen http://www.aberdeen.com or call (617) 723-7890, or to learn more about Harte-Hanks, call (800) 456-9748 or go to http://www.harte-hanks.com.
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