The Point

Below are my recommendations for this week’s best webinars. Just a reminder that September 26^th is the start of The Procurement Revolution: a 100% free, online, global, interactive event designed to get the procurement community to Stand Up, Speak Out, and Drive Change. Click on the title of each event below to view the full description and register or visit the BMP events calendar to see what’s on tap for the rest of the month.

Blockchain: New Capabilities for Digital Transformation (ASUG)

September 21^st, 10am ET

If you’re not familiar with Blockchain, it is the underlying technology behind digital currency - like Bitcoin. Wait! Don’t dismiss this event just because you don’t envision supporting Bitcoin as an accepted currency in your next RFP. There is a whole world of fintech (or financial technology) innovation taking place, and it will affect your business more – and sooner – than you might think.

Manage What Matters: The Pareto Principle, ABC Analysis and How to Manage by Exception (Supply Chain Brain)

September 21^st, 1pm ET

Most of us use the Pareto Principle, more commonly known as the 80/20 rule, on a regular basis. And while it rarely goes beyond a rough rule of thumb, is has so much more potential. For instance, as Supply Chain Brain will discuss in this webinar, it can be combined with ABC analysis to improve inventory management.

How to use people data to improve recruitment and retention (Rosslyn Analytics)

September 22^nd, 11am ET

With contingent workforce, managed services, and hybrid staffing models growing in popularity, it can be hard to tell where HR ends and procurement begins. If that is going to be the case, deciding which model is best for each skill, headcount, or talent need is a perfect application for the analytics technology and expertise procurement has built up over time.

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It seems like only a few weeks ago that Phil Ideson (Art of Procurement) and I first resolved to lead a global, virtual, multimedia, interactive event designed to help professionals the world over make a change - but we’ve actually been hard at work since late winter. As we work our way through the last two weeks before The Procurement Revolution becomes a reality, the time has come for everyone else to start getting ready too.

After a drought last week, webinars are back with a vengeance! There are 9 this week and 12 already scheduled for next week. Having so many events to choose from doesn’t necessarily make it easy to pick just a few to recommend, but it does ensure that if you make the time you will learn something new. Click on the title of each event below to view the full description and register or visit the BMP events calendar to see what’s on tap for the rest of the month.

If you take a look at the Buyers Meeting Point events calendar for this week, there is nothing going on. None of our usual hosts or organizers have anything planned. While that makes sense given the Labor Day holiday in the US and Canada, not having any events to look forward to would be too much to bear! So we looked to our friends at Webinara to see what they might have listed and found some great webinars to recommend! Click on the title of each event below to view the full description and register on Webinara.com or click here to visit the BMP events calendar to see what’s on tap for the rest of the month.

NextGen Enterprise IT Solutions – A Panel Discussion

September 7^th, 11am ET

Procurement has more than enough experience with different IT trends and models – Cloud, SaaS, hybrid, mobile – to recognize that managing the needs of everyone in the enterprise and leveraging the advantages of all models requires a great deal of planning and strategy. In this panel format webinar, leaders from Cygnet Infotech and some of their industry colleagues will discuss opportunities such as IoT, Data Science, Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality enablement for Hybrid Ecosystems with extremely enriched customer experience

Case Study: The Supply Chain in Action

September 8^th, 12n ET

Sometimes the best events are the ones you never expected to find – including this webinar from APICS and Prayon Group about how the Georgia-based operation of a global phosphate producer went from being “dead and buried” to becoming a successful 38 year old startup – all thanks to practical applications of supply chain principles. For all of the discussion of transformations, we rarely hear about one, let alone one as wildly successful or with as much at stake as at Prayon. In this webinar, Melissa Wright, Prayon Group’s VP of Supply Chain, will explain how moving from survival mode to transitioning of MRP and inventory processes & procedures to sustainable performance enabled the company to become recognized as a regional economic force.

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We’re officially making the transition to September this week, although most of the events take place before we’ll need to turn the page on our calendars. Click on the title of each event below to view the full description in our events calendar and to connect to their registration pages.