Improving supplier performance and increasing sustainable business relationships with your diverse suppliers can be achieved by investing in supplier development initiatives. Procurement professionals are discovering how initiatives such as formal mentoring and capability-building programming are strengthening their global supply chains and positively impacting their bottom lines. This session will provide strategies and tactics for building effective global supplier development initiatives within your own organization.
Learning Objectives:
- Raise your awareness of innovative internal corporate supplier development programming.
- Learn the key elements for building effective global supplier development initiatives.
- Recognize the potential challenges to building supplier development initiatives and how to measure success.
Moderator:
Anthony Flemmich – Vice President Indirect Procurement at Bristol Myers Squibb
Panelists:
- Raul Rodriguez – Director, Global Economic Inclusion & Supplier Diversity at Merck
- Rakhi Agarwal – Global Head of Supplier Diversity & Risk at Sanofi
- TJ Lewis – Senior Director of Supplier Diversity & Sustainability at Ally Financial
- Jillian Schneeberger – Supplier Diversity Lead at Target