From the sourcing to measuring performance, managing your suppliers through their lifecycle is a demanding and complex challenge. Creating consistency through a supply base spread across the world, getting visibility into performance and risk: these are problems to be met with a comprehensive strategy that combines governance and process with enhanced capability.

Please join Procurement Leaders as we bring together expertise and experience from Avery Dennison and SAP Ariba to learn how leading enterprises are gaining agility and driving hard cost savings in key direct spend categories. You’ll get an insider’s view into how Avery Dennison, a Fortune 500 company, evolved its category management processes from local and tactical to global and strategic.

Avery Dennison has insights and tips to help you capture savings in direct materials sourcing, including:

• How do we manage our network of suppliers and contract manufacturers 13 time zones away, just like we did when the plant was across the street?
• Where are the biggest opportunities to use technology to increase agility, visibility and integration?
• Where can supplier management be more efficient: reducing sourcing cycle times and taking the cost out of day-to-day procurement?

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