Course Description: Once the obvious categories are sourced, how do you continue to drive value? How do you create agile networks for the supply chains you support? This course is designed for people who already have a grasp of Strategic Sourcing and want to understand how to penetrate more areas of spend, achieve better results, and “take it up a notch”. It gives you an opportunity to expand your toolkit … perhaps there is a new idea that will help advance the success of your team!

Topics Covered: This course covers topics and challenges that confront forward-thinking procurement professionals, for example:

• Differences in approach between goods and services procurement
• What is blockchain and why is it important
• Artificial intelligence and RPA in procurement
• Building a digital agenda
• Building agility into your procurement process
• Making reverse auctions work for you
• Finding the “crazy idea” that brings value to your firm

About the instructor

Joanna Martinez is a global procurement / supply chain leader and the founder of Supply Chain Advisors LLC. She is a frequent lecturer and blogger on business topics and also provides coaching, advising, workshops, and opportunity assessment. Her clients range from technology startups and professional organizations to Fortune 50 companies.

Joanna has led transformation initiatives for companies in different sectors: among them Johnson & Johnson, Diageo, AllianceBernstein LP, and Cushman & Wakefield. She creates ways in which procurement and supply chain improvements help grow a business’s bottom-line, bringing innovations in approaches and techniques to the industries in which she works and the people she coaches.

Joanna was named a Distinguished Alumna by Rutgers College of Engineering. She was the first recipient of Iasta’s (now Determine) Client Excellence Award and has also been recognized for innovation or customer excellence by American Express, Egencia, and Heublein. She was honored by the New Jersey ISM with its Crystal Award in 2009.

Her book, A Guide to Positive Disruption, is available on Amazon. More information can be found on Joanna’s website, www.martinezjo.com