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Nancy Jorgensen

Product Marketing Director
SciQuest

Nancy Jorgensen C.P.M. and MBA, is an award winning procurement professional with a 20 year proven track record of success. She was recognized as a Supply & Demand-Chain 2015 & 2014 Executive Pro to Know. Most recently, Nancy is the Product Marketing Director at SciQuest where she is able to apply her previous Practitioner and Marketing background to determine strategy needs, develop options, and meet corporate goals.

Prior to SciQuest Nancy held Indirect Procurement leadership positions at Brunswick, Reynolds Food Packaging, eLoyalty, and Trustmark Insurance. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Northern Illinois University, MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management and is holds a Lifetime C.P.M. certification.

She regularly participates in community volunteer projects, enjoys golf, bicycling, and competing in canine agility competitions with her dog, Polly.

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Practitioners-Only Day—The Rise of Procurement 3.0

Monday, October 2nd, 2017

16:00 Panel: Improving Procurement Operations

Whether you’re automating tactical processes to focus on the strategic, implementing a new technology tool, or crafting new contract management templates, you need to make sure you have the resources available to you. Discuss:
• What are the criteria and metrics for Best in Class procurement ops organizations?
• The impact of policy vs. relationship
• Implementing systems—funding, justifying, bandwidth, who’s absorbing it, how to get them to use
• How to make it easier for people in your company to buy stuff—is there a UI that’s user friendly?
• Optimizing your mix of tools- eSourcing, P2P, contract management- and consolidating where necessary
• Should operations be centralized globally or regionally?
• Benchmarking your organization against other organizations- how do you stack up?

Innovation and Transformation

Thursday, November 2nd, 2017

14:30 Panel: Sharpening the Effectiveness of Your Spend Analysis and Infrastructure Support Tools

Do you really know how much spend you have under management, and how much spend left to capture? To make your spend analysis more efficient, you need the best tools to get the best value. However, as companies amassed large amounts of data over the years, do your tools have the capability to truly integrate, analyze and manage that data to produce useable reports?
• Justifying an ROI for spend analysis tools
• Creating a framework for overcoming your data problem
• Project tracking data to ensure your spend goals are being reached
• It the problem really with your tool, or just how it’s set up?
• Showcasing and demonstrating the savings to the CFO

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”