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Chuck Hatsis

Chief Procurement Officer
Groupon

Chuck Hatsis currently serves as Global Chief Procurement Officer at Groupon where he is responsible for indirect, real estate, facilities, and supply chain expenditures across 30+ countries. Prior to joining Groupon, he held executive positions at Deloitte Consulting, Nationwide, ABN Amro, and Surge Consulting, the specialized marketing procurement firm he founded in 2009. He graduated magna cum laude in Finance from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and earned his MBA in Strategy and Marketing from UCLA Anderson.

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Practitioners-Only Day—The Rise of Procurement 3.0

Monday, October 2nd, 2017

15:40 Presentation: How To Build A Successful Strategic Sourcing Organization From The Ground Up

If you have a mature Strategic Sourcing Organization or are just beginning to build one, learn how to create maximum savings value for your organization:
• Creating a value statement for the CEO/CFO –selling the solution
• Gaining organizational acceptance--breaking down the maverick behavior
• Building the team—hiring true sourcing professionals
• Training the organization of the philosophy of strategic sourcing and sourcing levers
• Building and defining a global team—cultural challenges
• Defining savings methodology and gaining organizational acceptance—The score of the game
• Purchasing tools and technology—where to start
• Data analysis and gathering
• Getting the message out to the organization
• Tracking success and publishing results