Procurement and Sourcing

The commodity review will see our analysts review and examine the price shocks for key commodities in the first half of the year. The team will then move on look at what could drive prices for the rest of the year. In summary, our analysts will provide their outlook for selected key commodities over the next 6 months

In far too many manufacturing organizations, data is treated as overhead instead of a strategic advantage. In this webinar, Informatica and Paradigm Technology will explore the convergence of Operational and Information Technology and how data management plays an integral part in realizing key benefits from business-transformational projects. In order to support an Industry 4.0 world, a Data 4.0 precursor is a must-have requirement.

Join this webinar, led by experts from Cranfield School of Management to hear the results of the Q1 2019 Global Supply Chain Risk Report.

The Global Supply Chain Risk Report is a joint study by Cranfield School of Management’s Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management and Dun & Bradstreet, which investigates the level of supply chain risk faced by European companies with international supplier relationships.

Analysis has been carried out using data supplied by Dun & Bradstreet, which included around 200,000 anonymous transactions between European buyers and their suppliers who were located in more than 150 countries worldwide.

During the webinar, we will focus on the Q1 2019 report, published in June 2019. We will cover the background, the key findings and practical implications for procurement professionals.

Register now to learn:

- The level of supply risk in Q1 2019
- The differences across key industry sectors and how this should be considered in procurement decisions
- How dependency on key suppliers changed compares with the previous quarter

Presented by Dr Heather Skipworth and Dr Emel Aktas, Cranfield School of Management

Every organisation has a system of agreement process, from contracts to offer letters to purchase orders, agreements are the foundation of doing business. Yet many organisations still rely on manual, disconnected processes costing the business time, money and increasing errors and risk.

To modernise and unify their systems of agreement, organisations are adopting the DocuSign Agreement Cloud. Most start with DocuSign eSignature, then connect and automate other parts of the agreement process to more than a dozen applications and more than 350 integrations that covere the entire agreement process, from preparing to signing, acting on, and managing agreements.

At each step, the result is the ability to do business faster, simpler, greener, and more cost-efficiently, while delivering a better experience for customers, partners, and employees.

Join this live webinar and see how you can automate your agreement processes before, during and after eSignature. You will learn to:

- Prepare agreements with a high degree of automation
Sign Agreements quickly and securely and complete the process faster with automated routing
- Act on agreement terms after signing and update records or trigger actions in other systems
- Manage agreements and leverage features like secure retention, retrieval, and reporting

As more organizations store sensitive data in the cloud, and as data protection regulations become more stringent, security personnel should consider developing a strategy to protect their assets in the AWS cloud. However, this poses many important questions, such as: How can I securely migrate data from on-premises storage volumes to AWS services, or from existing AWS services to new AWS services? What controls are needed? And what performance requirements must be met?

SANS analyst Dave Shackleford explores the controls that are critical to data security and how to scale on-premises data protection strategies to the cloud.

Attendees will learn:

- How to use data loss prevention, encryption, access controls, user behavior analytics, and data life cycle controls as integral parts of a data protection strategy
- Key steps in scaling data protection to the AWS cloud, and which AWS storage and database services can be used to establish data encryption capabilities
- Ways to minimize common risks from human error with a combination of AWS and third-party services, and how organizations are using both to secure data in AWS

About the Speakers:
Dave Shackleford is a SANS analyst, senior instructor, course author, GIAC technical director, and member of the board of directors for the SANS Technology Institute. He is the founder and principal consultant with Voodoo Security, and has consulted with hundreds of organizations in the areas of security, regulatory compliance, and network architecture and engineering.

David Aiken is a Solutions Architect Manager at AWS covering AWS Marketplace, Service Catalog, Migration Services, and Control Tower. He leads a team of specialist AWS SAs that help customers implement security and governance best practices using native AWS Services and Partner products. He is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and his skills include cloud computing, enterprise architecture, agile methodologies, web services, and software design and development.

In this new webinar, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and global cloud training experts, A Cloud Guru, have collaborated to help you identify and tackle the important challenges IT practitioners face when migrating business apps to the cloud. This training-based session will show you how to benchmark your performance, identify challenging areas, prioritize use cases, and pair them with relevant AWS native services and software seller solutions in AWS Marketplace.

Attendees will receive:
- Expert guidance and training on principles for designing a high-performance cloud infrastructure
- A guide to AWS Well Architected Framework (WAF), and how it's helping IT professionals understand how to build secure, agile, high-performing cloud infrastructures

- How AWS Marketplace software seller solutions are helping customers today overcome challenges related to improving their IT operations in the cloud

About the Speakers:
Robin Norwood is the creator of A Cloud Guru’s Coding for the Cloud series: a hands-on web series dedicated to building software in a modern day, serverless world. He creates engaging, accessible, and highly technical content for technology professionals at the cutting edge of cloud computing. Robin is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, and AWS Certified Developer.

Chris Chapman is a Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, covering AWS Marketplace, Service Catalog, and Control Tower. His core mission is helping customers and partners automate AWS infrastructure deployment and provisioning. He is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect, and his skills include cloud computing, data integration and architecture, SaaS computing, and design and software development. Chris has previous experience as a developer, system architect, and big data architect.

Striving for system efficiency is a common goal. We want our platforms to perform exactly how we expect and then some. Introducing: Tradeshift Buy.

Tune in for an exclusive demonstration of Tradeshift Buy where you’ll learn how to:

- Manage your marketplace offerings in a central place, with custom pricing and options for each buyer or marketplace.
- Aggregate offers from your sellers or marketplace, controlled and managed to the enterprise’s needs
- Give everyone in your organization the power to buy what they need, for any kind of spend, across any marketplace
- See and control all spend, with intelligent recommendations for optimizing your cost structure.
- Connect any number of sellers and buyers, based on your brand and your T&Cs, with full access control

As Railinc modernizes its data infrastructure, critical data has become distributed across Oracle, data lake and tools like SAS, and business users have been challenged to find and understand the data they need. Railinc embarked on a major effort across business & IT to address this problem by cataloging all data assets and adding business context to the data to enable easy search and discovery. Confidence in the data was improved through visibility into how datasets were created and business descriptions and tags that added business context, along with a focused/phased approach to drive business user adoption. Railinc will share valuable lessons and best practices related to both: (1) deployment and scaling; (2) driving business user adoption.

When migrating endpoint security controls to protect their cloud workloads, organizations must first consider their own security, operational and business needs. Next, they should assess their requirements against the solutions already in use in-house against the in-cloud security solutions they’re considering. Ultimately, these requirements should help organizations come to a decision on whether to migrate their existing security to the cloud, or use cloud-provided tools to protect their cloud endpoints.

SANS instructor David Hazar, AWS Solutions Architect Manager David Aiken, and Optiv Cloud Security Practice Leader Joe Vadakkan will release guidelines for determining your cloud endpoint security controls and selecting solutions through the AWS Marketplace.

Attendees will learn:

- How cloud design affects endpoint security
- Needs and capabilities associated with endpoint security platforms in the cloud (such as automation, behavioral detection and blocking, and threat hunting capabilities)
- Specific focus on cloud-based endpoint detection and response (EDR)
- Solution guidance and evaluation considerations for endpoint security platforms, including real-world success observations
- Key questions for potential vendors to determine which endpoint security platform(s) are best-suited for integration and implementation in your AWS environment

Join this webinar and gain practical knowledge on how to evaluate and select an effective endpoint security platform for the cloud. Don’t miss this opportunity to improve your endpoint security strategy with industry-leading guidance from SANS, Optiv and AWS Marketplace.

We all know the energy markets are volatile, but as we use the quieter summer months to refresh and update our procurement strategy ahead of the busy winter period, what should we be aware of?

Will the stricken oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman create movement in the oil markets? Will the long-term weather forecast have a chilling effect on winter power prices?

Tune into this webinar, and we'll explain the bulls and bears in the markets right now, then explain how the markets work as we watch the Market Making Obligation trades come in at 10:30.

Don't know what that means? Join us and you soon will.

This webinar is offered by DB Group to help inform and update ICON members and other business energy consumers; we're very sorry but other brokers will be asked not to dial in on this occasion

The world is becoming turbulent faster than supply chains are becoming resilient.

The frequency of supply chain disruption events globally has increased year-over-year for the past 10 years. The reasons are varied; the explosion of data, climate change-related extreme weather, geopolitical conflict, cyber attacks, tariffs and governmental regulations--all creating challenges for supply chains. Unfortunately, traditional methods of managing supply chains are ineffective in mitigating the increasing level of volatility facing businesses today.

Supply chains are the lifeblood of any company, and supply chain performance issues are quick to impact margins. For organizations with global supply chains, the percentage of an organization’s total costs attributable to supply chain can reach 90%. Between 2015 and 2018 significant supply chain disruptions negatively impacted corporate earnings at an average rate of 24%.

In an increasingly turbulent world, supply chain resilience is the ultimate competitive advantage. In this webinar to learn about:

- Trends driving global supply chain disruptions
- Opportunities to automate supply chain risk management
- The benefit of digitally connecting with trading partners
- How AI is helping manage supply chain activities
- How the platform economy changes supply chain management
- The evolving role of supply chain leaders

With Tradeshift Go you can enable the mobile workforce for next-generation expense payment and management:

• Limit physical p-cards and corporate credit cards to reduce liability exposure
• Extend use of virtual cards to manage spend where you have no control today
• Give your users a world-class native mobile experience they will actually love
• Extend to workers outside the organization who need access to buying or payment
• Empower people to get work done, but keep the control and transparency

With Tradeshift Go you can combine the flexibility of corporate cards with the control of pre-approval workflow.

Join us for a live demo of the Tradeshift Pay platform. During this demo, you will learn how to:

• Connect to your suppliers in days
• Eliminate manual processes through digitization
• Speed up processing time through increased collaboration
• Take advantage of a network of banks and suppliers that want to do business with you
• Manage and increase working capital

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