Here's your weekly update on the latest thought leadership, networking events and training with SIG.
Artificial Intelligence Use Cases: Identifying and realizing the real value
In recent years, the procurement function has embraced the idea of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As organizations are getting serious about leveraging the technology, an attempt is being made to understand its applications. Download this free eBook to gain insight into how AI can transform your daily practices.
SIG has reserved a block of rooms at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa at a discounted rate of $285 per night plus tax. The deadline for booking reservations is TOMORROW, September 10. Reserve your room today and avoid the chance of not getting this discounted price or even worse, not getting a room onsite. Rooms in the block are filling up fast!
Join an elite group of graduates and enroll in a SIG University certification program before tuition increases in 2020. The programs can be completed entirely online so you don’t have to spend critical time away from the office.
Here's your weekly update on the latest thought leadership, networking events and training with SIG.
This Month at SIG
Make some time in your calendar this month to benchmark with your peers, find solutions to your biggest challenges or upskill your team with a SIG University certification.
Gain exclusive access to a chapter highlight from Coupa’s annual benchmark report, where they look at 3 KPIs across the source-to-contract process to gauge your organization’s progress and optimize your spend strategy.
The first installment of this two-part article underscored the importance of collaboration between procurement and IT operations. Part two of the continues with more emphasis on collaboration, but in this case, the collaboration is in terms of working with your IT colleagues.
The Labor Day holiday in the U.S. marks the official end of summer. Playing catch-up and circling back with everyone you got an out-of-office email from is a laborious task in the quest to achieve “inbox zero.” Hopefully you had the opportunity to hit the refresh button yourself this summer so you can approach your task list (and your goal list) with renewed energy.
This month, SIG has some exciting networking opportunities so you can benchmark with your peers and find solutions to your biggest challenges, and you have one last opportunity to upskill your team before tuition increases for our certification programs. Here’s what’s happening in September.
Last Chance for SIG University Introductory Pricing
Go into 2020 with a globally recognized certification that demonstrates your skills, expertise and professionalism. SIG University’s last semester for this year begins on September 30 and tuition rates are increasing in January. Get yourself or your team certified now at the lowest possible cost!
The programs can be completed entirely online and are available on-demand, so you don’t have to spend critical time away from the office.
SIG University’s Certified Third Party Risk Management Professional (C3PRMP) program is a globally recognized certification that is the “gold standard” in terms of relevance, scope and content. The C3PRMP program was created by Linda Tuck Chapman, an advisor, educator, author and expert, and is based on her experience and her book, Third Party Risk Management: Driving Enterprise Value (published by the Risk Management Association). You’ll soon learn that investing in the C3PRMP designation is an investment that will enhance your knowledge base and deepen your expertise.
Outlined here is information about the upcoming changes and benefits of your C3PRMP designation, as well as a profile of our students.
What changes are coming to SIG University’s C3PRMP program in January 2020?
In January 2020, the duration of SIG University's C3PRMP program will be extended from eight weeks to 10 weeks. Multiple-choice review questions at the end of each module will test all students’ knowledge and require a minimum passing score of 80%.
Here's your weekly update on the latest thought leadership, networking events and training with SIG.
Book your room for SIG's Fall Executive Summit today!
SIG has reserved a block of rooms at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa at a discounted rate of $285 per night plus tax. This is a limited time offer and the cut off for reservations is September 10. Reserve your room today and avoid the chance of not getting this discounted price or even worse, not getting a room onsite. Rooms in the block are filling up fast!
This is your last chance to enroll in a SIG University program before tuition increases in 2020. The programs can be completed entirely online and are available on-demand so you don’t have to spend critical time away from the office. Enroll by September 3 to save 10% on tuition and lock in the introductory tuition rates before prices increase in 2020.
Kate Renwick-Espinosa is the President of VSP Vision Care, a national not-for-profit vision company. At SIG's Fall Global Executive Summit, Kate will highlight how organizations can adopt a culture of fiscal fitness through impactful activities, engaging content pushed through a variety of communication channels, and a tighter alignment between leadership and different groups. Leveraging more than 27 years of optical and leadership experience, she’s energized by helping people see and feels fortunate to work for a company with similar “care and service” values. She’s accountable and committed to growing VSP membership and product and service offerings to meet diverse consumer needs and VSP’s client base.
Can you share a little more about your day-to-day role and responsibilities as the President of VSP Vision Care?
Helping people see is what motivates me every day. My primary focus is to help lead the direction and key efforts for the company that continue to grow and strengthen our VSP membership. This means we’re aligned and structured to be wherever the customer is making their vision care “purchase” and “care” decisions. Our product and service offerings must meet diverse and personalized consumer needs as well as VSP’s client base both domestic and international. And, they must be straight-forward and easy to use!
I also work closely with our CEO, and entire leadership team, to ensure our growing company is connected and supporting our common goals and essentials as well as delivering a consistent and competitive marketplace presence. Together we ensure that when we all show up to work that we clearly understand where we’re trying to get to and how we make a difference. Collectively across our six lines of business, we’re delivering the kind of personalized eye care experience that creates members for life!
SIG University student Hanne McBlain enrolled in the Certified Third Party Risk Management Professional (C3PRMP) Program while working at Information Services Group. She shares what she learned from her own experience with a data breach and how she is taking a proactive approach to IT vendor risk management to mitigate future business disruptions.
In times of cost-cutting, vendor management functions that include third party risk are often the first to go or be significantly reduced. Many senior executives fail to see the value these functions bring and are usually happy to cover third party risk as part of a general risk function.
Stakeholder Support is Critical
I previously worked for an organization that prided itself on not relying on third parties for any critical functions. Redundancy was abundant and built into every platform, and on the surface, there was not much to worry about when it came to third party risk.
During my time there things started to change. We convinced the organization to implement a third party risk management framework. But with no experience in this area, we were fighting an uphill battle. We managed to win support and quickly implemented standard due diligence and on-going monitoring of critical suppliers. The business stakeholders generally regarded the added due diligence and tracking as unnecessary and bureaucratic.
Here's your weekly update on the latest thought leadership, networking events and training with SIG.
Artificial Intelligence Use Cases: Identifying and realizing the real value
In recent years, the procurement function has embraced the idea of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As organizations are getting serious about leveraging the technology, an attempt is being made to understand its applications. Download this free eBook to gain insight into how AI can transform your daily practices.
Learn Essential Capabilities for Modern Procurement and Finance
Most procurement and finance organizations struggle with data quality and visibility. Even the most sophisticated teams still find themselves stuck in a reactive mode. This eBook explores some of the technology trends and business practices that are helping to define a new, strategic role for procurement.
Alex Saric is Chief Marketing Officer at Ivalua and has spent over 17 years of his career evangelizing Spend Management, shaping its evolution and working closely with hundreds of customers to support their Digital Transformation journeys. As CMO, Alex leads overall marketing strategy and thought leadership programs. At SIG's Eastern Regional SIGnature event on September 12, Alex will show you how to map a path that allows you to rapidly progress to best-in-class procurement to establish a competitive advantage in your company. He began his career in the U.S. Army Cavalry, leading tank and scout platoons through two combat deployments. Alex holds a B.S. in Economics from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and an international M.B.A. from INSEAD.
How should success be defined when it comes to digital transformation?
The temptation, and what we see most often today, is viewing it as performance on a set of metric benchmarks. Falling in the top quartile or top 20% of metrics, like percent under management and a level of touchless invoicing can qualify companies as best-in-class, which is often viewed as a success. These metrics are good to track and work toward, but they should be interim objectives on a longer journey. If those are your goals, you are on a path to mediocrity, not toward being a strategic value driver.
Here's your weekly update on the latest thought leadership, networking events and training with SIG.
Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact On Procurement and Supply Chain
Read how GEP is breaking down some of the essential AI concepts and showcasing the game-changing applications that they believe are most relevant in procurement and the supply chain.
Gain exclusive access to a chapter highlight from Coupa’s annual benchmark report, where they look at 3 KPIs across the source-to-contract process to gauge your organization’s progress and optimize your spend strategy.
The SIG Peer2Peer program allows members to crowdsource best practices on topics specific to their needs. Members can leverage the experience of other industry professionals by posing questions to the greater SIG community on issues they are facing within their organization. Below are the latest inquiries that you are invited to respond to. If you're not a SIG member, submit your response to Mary Zampino: mzampino@sig.org.
Sourcing Project Request Form
Lend your expertise to a member looking to create a project form and to refine the process of end-to-end vendor engagement process for consulting engagements.
SIG Speaks Weekly Briefing - September 9
Here's your weekly update on the latest thought leadership, networking events and training with SIG.
Artificial Intelligence Use Cases: Identifying and realizing the real value
In recent years, the procurement function has embraced the idea of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As organizations are getting serious about leveraging the technology, an attempt is being made to understand its applications. Download this free eBook to gain insight into how AI can transform your daily practices.
Reserve your hotel room today!
SIG has reserved a block of rooms at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa at a discounted rate of $285 per night plus tax. The deadline for booking reservations is TOMORROW, September 10. Reserve your room today and avoid the chance of not getting this discounted price or even worse, not getting a room onsite. Rooms in the block are filling up fast!
SIG University
Join an elite group of graduates and enroll in a SIG University certification program before tuition increases in 2020. The programs can be completed entirely online so you don’t have to spend critical time away from the office.