Francine Coutu

• Different ways you define and engage with vendors and suppliers- is there a distinction? Do you manage them differently?
• Determining if you need a VMO to managing supplier relationships, or if management will stay in procurement
• How to optimize and advance your VMO
• Working with IT to establish parameters for sourcing vendors and suppliers
• Profiling potential vendors. Are they the right fit at the right cost?
• Managing the lifecycle of the contract

Do you really know how much IT spend you have under management, and how much spend left to capture? To make your spend analysis more efficient, you need the best tools to get the best value. However, as companies amassed large amounts of data over the years, do your tools have the capability to truly integrate, analyze and manage that data to produce usable reports?

• Justifying an ROI for IT Procurement tools
• Creating a framework for overcoming your data problem
• Project tracking data to ensure your spend goals are being reached
• It the problem really with your tool, or just how it’s set up?
• Showcasing and demonstrating the savings