Doug Gerard, Manager of Global Indirect Sourcing at SPX Corporation

Doug Gerard


Manager of Global Indirect Sourcing
SPX Corporation

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Doug.

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Practitioners-Only Day—The Rise of Procurement 3.0

Monday, October 2nd, 2017


17:00 Roundtable Discussions

TABLE 8: Content-Centric Procurement
Hosted by: Ajay Anand, Senior Director, Infosys and Sanish Mondkar, Enterprise Software Strategy Advisor, Infosys

TABLE 9: Benchmarking for Equitable Contracting
Hosted by: Eric Simonson,Managing Partner, Research, Everest Group

TABLE 10: Managing Supplier Exits
Hosted by: Caroline Norman, Director- Indirect Procurement,
The Home Depot

TABLE 11: Supplier Segmentation and Rationalization
Hosted by: David Braxton, Senior Vice President, Strategic Sourcing, SunTrust Bank

TABLE 12: Achieving Savings by Participating in Group Purchasing Organizations and Consortiums
Hosted by: Doug Gerard, Corporate Manager, Global Indirect Sourcing, Global Operations, SPX Corp.

Table 13: How Will Sustainability and CSR Impact the Role of Procurement in the Next 5 years?
Hosted by: Pierre-François Thaler , Co-President, EcoVadis

TABLE 14: Topic TBD
Hosted by: SPONSOR

Innovation and Transformation

Thursday, November 2nd, 2017


16:50 Panel: Capturing Unmanaged and New Categories To Uncover Savings Opportunities

Some categories don’t have natural owners, or are considered too high profile and therefore out of reach of procurement. This panel will discuss why procurement hasn’t traditionally touched these categories, and how to make an aggressive business case for managing the final frontiers in the business:
• Emergency management and safety
• Lean process improvement
• Risk management and insurance
• Regulatory and audit
• Energy management