After COVID-19, most companies will be cash poor, margin hungry, and riveted on boosting supply chain resilience. They say, “forewarned is forearmed,” but what specific actions should we take? Join Rod Sherkin, President of ProPurchaser, and Kelly Barner, Owner of Buyers Meeting Point, as they team up to share their insights on the challenges our profession will face and the solutions we can implement to thrive in a post COVID-19 world. Kelly will kick off this discussion by explaining how some of today’s “best practices” may no longer be best, e.g.: building just-in-time supply chains, supplier rationalization, and pursuing low prices. Rod will continue the presentation with practical advice to prepare you for what’s coming – how to keep the focus on cost containment while building resilience into your supply chain. He explains how to: · Make suppliers’ costs transparent. · Use this knowledge to negotiate competitive pricing and attract the best, most reliable suppliers. The goal of this webinar is to help supply chain professionals prepare for the future. You may be pleasantly surprised at how effective you can become at driving enterprise costs lower and your career prospects higher.

As fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies and their external supply chain partners continue to operate in a competitive, ever-shifting market, it is becoming more important than ever for them to drive two-way visibility and high-fidelity collaboration across their complex, multi-tier networks. To this end, it has become mission-critical for consumer brands and manufacturers to leverage modern supply chain planning technologies and multi-enterprise collaboration platforms in order to drive performance and responsiveness across their networks. This webinar will highlight how leading technologies in the realm of supply chain planning (OMP) and multi-enterprise collaboration (Nulogy) can deliver value for fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) enterprises and their networks of external supply chain partners such as contract packagers and contract manufacturers. By leveraging these two complementary categories of supply chain technology, FMCG enterprises can take advantage of true cross-enterprise visibility for their own value stream analysts and external suppliers alike.