Katie Smith


Head of Indirect Procurement
W.W. Grainger, Inc.

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Innovation and Transformation

Thursday, November 2nd, 2017


11:10 Session 2: Creating A Unifying Framework For Supply Chain Risk Management

If one of your suppliers gets caught doing something they shouldn’t or isn’t 100% complaint with global laws and regulations, it will come back to hurt you. Discuss with your CPO peers how to work best with your internal audit and compliance teams, who precisely should be responsible for managing risk, and create solutions for benchmarking and mitigating risk in your supply chain.
• Segmenting suppliers by levels of risk
• Aligning your risk management program with your cybersecurity program
• Who should own and manage the data?
• Market criteria for assessing risk

11:50 Session 2: Creating A Unifying Framework For Supply Chain Risk Management (Continued)

If one of your suppliers gets caught doing something they shouldn’t or isn’t 100% complaint with global laws and regulations, it will come back to hurt you. Discuss with your CPO peers how to work best with your internal audit and compliance teams, who precisely should be responsible for managing risk, and create solutions for benchmarking and mitigating risk in your supply chain.
• Segmenting suppliers by levels of risk
• Aligning your risk management program with your cybersecurity program
• Who should own and manage the data?
• Market criteria for assessing risk

12:10 Session 2: Creating A Unifying Framework For Supply Chain Risk Management (Continued)

If one of your suppliers gets caught doing something they shouldn’t or isn’t 100% complaint with global laws and regulations, it will come back to hurt you. Discuss with your CPO peers how to work best with your internal audit and compliance teams, who precisely should be responsible for managing risk, and create solutions for benchmarking and mitigating risk in your supply chain.
• Segmenting suppliers by levels of risk
• Aligning your risk management program with your cybersecurity program
• Who should own and manage the data?
• Market criteria for assessing risk

12:30 Session 2: Creating A Unifying Framework For Supply Chain Risk Management (Continued)

If one of your suppliers gets caught doing something they shouldn’t or isn’t 100% complaint with global laws and regulations, it will come back to hurt you. Discuss with your CPO peers how to work best with your internal audit and compliance teams, who precisely should be responsible for managing risk, and create solutions for benchmarking and mitigating risk in your supply chain.
• Segmenting suppliers by levels of risk
• Aligning your risk management program with your cybersecurity program
• Who should own and manage the data?
• Market criteria for assessing risk

16:50 Panel: Creating a Procurement Center of Excellence

Procurement is one of the few organizational departments that can see across the entire company. Funneling certain functions into a centralized center of excellence can help make the tactical more proactive and create additional value to your stakeholders. Gain insight into:
• How procurement can and should be used as a shared service
• Using a center of excellence to handle transactional projects
• Strengthening connections with finance, audit, legal, sales and marketing to get the best deals on your sourcing projects and create more fruitful engagements
• Best-in-class CoE templates— moving beyond a “center of good”