Name: The CPO Highwire: Balancing Performance and Innovation
Start: 2021-09-29T16:00:00Z
End: 2021-09-29T17:02:50.000Z
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With unmatched technology and category-defining innovation, Icertis pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with contract lifecycle management (CLM). The AI-powered, analyst-validated Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) platform turns contracts from static documents into strategic advantage by structuring and connecting the critical contract information that defines how an organization runs. Offering an enterprise-wide 360-degree view of all contracts, deep insights and automatic oversight in a user-centric environment that accelerates time to contract, reduces risk, and improves the bottom line.

With production disturbances due to economic sanctions, geopolitical conflicts, raw material shortages, extreme bouts of weather, and other factors, supply chain teams have been challenged with evolving their practices or falling behind. 

In this on-demand webinar, leaders from Icertis, Microsoft, and PwC explore how life science organizations are using process, technology, and data to shift from a reactive to a proactive supply chain management model – ultimately creating a resilient, reliable, and agile supply chain.

Presenters:
Francis Ruffy | Customer Transformation Pharma & Life Sciences | PwC
Mike Shevlin | Northeast Sales Director Pharma & Life Sciences Major Accounts | Microsoft
Ram Acharya | General Manager Pre Sales & Product Management for Healthcare & Life Sciences Vertical | Icertis

Powering Agile Life Sciences Supply Chains

In our last webinar, we discussed how Icertis and SAP are combining best-of-breed technologies through the expanded strategic partnership.

Icertis and SAP are coming together once again to offer you a deep dive into the integrated Icertis-SAP technologies and bring forward use cases on how Contract Intelligence can power the Intelligent Enterprise.

Speakers: 
Thorsten Hammerling | Expert Solution Advisor, SAP Intelligent Spend & Business Network | SAP

Adam Pedersen | Senior Director, Pre-Sales | Icertis

Gisela Kruesch | Director, Marketing Europe | Icertis (Moderator)

How Icertis & SAP are Delivering Integrated Value through Contract Intelligence

In healthcare, complex challenges require an integrated approach: strategy, process and technology must come together for a holistic solution. As healthcare organizations work to create innovative strategies and transform their processes to support the continued evolution of value-based care, aligning the right technology becomes a crucial component for success.

Join Icertis, Microsoft, and PwC as we explore some of the ways leading healthcare organizations are creating innovative approaches combining strategy, process, and technology to support this shift.

The webinar will cover:
- Top technology trends and insights from the healthcare industry today
- How to leverage technology and processes to create visibility throughout the organization
- Key tips on how to best prepare your organization for future shifts in trends

Presenters:
Jennifer Conner, Senior Director Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Solutions, Icertis
Deepak Goyal, Principal, Customer Transformation, PwC
Amy Berk, MSN, RN, Director, Population Health, Microsoft

Supporting the Continued Shift to Value-Based Care

Contracts drive all aspects of your business, making efficient contract management imperative to success. And as market dynamics become more complex, you need better ways to gain end-to-end contract visibility and control – so you can shorten turnaround times, reduce risk, and realize the full intent of your agreements.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how integrated technology from SAP and Icertis helps you meet these goals. Through our expanded partnership, we’re connecting best-in-class contract lifecycle management (CLM) with the enterprise solutions that power core business processes. Join us for an exciting discussion on the partnership goals and vision, extended procurement benefits now available through Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) for SAP Ariba solutions, and future enhancements on our joint product road map.

Speakers:
Keertan Rai
Senior Director, Solutions Management Intelligent Spend and Business Networks
SAP Ariba

Martin Mohr
Vice President, Business Development & Alliances
Icertis

Gisela Kruesch
Director, Marketing Europe
Icertis
(Moderator)

Connecting Advanced Contract Intelligence to Core Business Processes

Banks and diversified financial services institutions continue their transformation journeys amid increasing regulations and challenging market conditions. For many, transforming aging technology and digitizing manual processes will provide scale, improve the customer experience, and enable future growth initiatives.  
  
To support these initiatives, emerging technologies also related to the “contract” and contract intelligence can play a critical role. Regulators are also willing to accept emerging technologies in compliance activities, ensuring repeatability of risk processes where variation of human activity exists. Like other industries, financial services have an opportunity to leverage innovations that cloud computing has made possible and benefit from technologies that continue to evolve at rapid speed. 
  
Join our panel discussion to learn how firms are viewing contract intelligence as a critical component to enable products and services, manage third-party risk, meet regulatory and compliance demands, and fully realize the value of each relationship.

The panel will explore:
- The technology outlook for banking
- The importance of customer-centricity
- The important role that contract lifecycle management (CLM) is playing in transformation initiatives

Presenters:
Jim Burnick, Senior Director Financial Services & Insurance, Icertis
Jost Hoppermann, Vice President Principal Analyst, Forrester
Frederick Kim  Managing Director - NA Finance & Risk Services Banking, Accenture

The Role of the Contract in Banking and Financial Services Transformations

As the world embraces the concept of digital transformation, customer demand for increasingly advanced technology means that tech companies must step up and meet their fast-changing needs—be it through new partnerships or mergers and acquisitions. At the same time, it’s crucial to protect profit margins and reduce risk. That’s why any effort to address the biggest challenges facing today’s technology companies must include how to manage and get maximum value from contracts. 

In this webinar, you’ll learn how contract lifecycle management for Technology enables you to: 

• Empower your sales team to close deals faster 
• Guard against lost revenue and protect profit margins 
• Automate compliance and risk management 
• Gain 360-degree visibility into partner, reseller, and distributor agreements

Join Elizabeth Flammini, Senior Manager, Product Marketing at Icertis and Vikas Bhadani, Product Manager at Icertis, as they demonstrate how Technology companies can leverage contract lifecycle management (CLM) purpose-built for the technology industry to address common contract challenges and drive business performance while reducing risk.

How to Drive Performance with Contract Lifecycle Management for Technology

In today’s tight-margin business environment, it can be very difficult to accelerate deal velocity and optimize profitability at the same time. Given the current supply chain challenges many are experiencing, manufacturers and suppliers need to quickly expand their business with new distribution agreements while having the peace of mind that they also align with corporate targets and are tracked with actual results to ensure future success.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how contract lifecycle management for CPG and Distribution enables you to:

• Optimize the pre-contract negotiation process 
• Close deals faster with financial guardrails
• Maximize profits and avoid leakages
• Achieve post-contract performance monitoring

Join Phil Barry, Senior Director of Retail Industry Solutions at Icertis and Omkar Chodankar, Senior Product Manager at Icertis, as they demonstrate how CPG and Distribution companies can leverage contract lifecycle management (CLM) technology purpose-built for this industry to address these common contract challenges and increase performance.

Increase Performance with Contract Lifecycle Management for CPG and Distribution

In today’s highly regulated MedTech industry, long selling cycles, evolving supply chain, next-generation payment models, and contracting strategies make commercial operations cumbersome for many organizations. Adding to the complexity is the variety of contracts that MedTech organizations must keep a record of, along with the challenges of a constantly changing business landscape including fluctuating commercial models, increasing compliance burden, and dynamic market conditions. 

Join Jennifer Conner, Senior Director, Pharma and Healthcare Industry Solutions at Icertis, and Ramkrishna Acharya, Senior Director of Pre-Sales at Icertis, as they demonstrate how to leverage contract lifecycle management (CLM) technology tailored to address these common contracting challenges in the MedTech industry. 

In this webinar, you’ll learn how contract lifecycle management for MedTech enables you to: 

• Optimize contracting process with channel partners and customers 
• Administer pricing and rebate terms efficiently 
• Respond quicker to regulatory and market changes 
• Achieve post-contract performance monitoring

Drive Agility and Efficiency with Contract Lifecycle Management for MedTech

Today, information technology (IT) and professional services companies operate in a commercial environment defined by dispersed operations, amplified customer and employee expectations, and increased security needs. They need to be able to deliver for clients anywhere. In an industry based on customer service, contracting plays a critical role in the IT and professional services industry, since it is the contracts that truly define how these companies engage with their customers.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how contract lifecycle management for IT and professional services enables you to:

· Increase business velocity with faster contracting execution
· Proactively track customer obligations and fulfillment to reduce risk
· Avoid revenue leakage and realize full contract value

Join Kumar Abhishek Srivastva, Senior Director, Pre-Sales at Icertis, as he demonstrates how IT and professional services organizations can leverage contract lifecycle management (CLM) purpose-built for this industry to address common contract challenges and drive great efficiencies and compliance while reducing risk.

Stay Customer Focused with Contract Management for IT and Professional Services

In today’s healthcare environment, it can be very difficult for Payers to effectively and efficiently manage contracts to avoid risk, maintain compliance, and accelerate contract turnaround times. Yet effective and efficient contract management is crucial for establishing, protecting, and scaling their provider networks.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how contract lifecycle management for Healthcare Payers enables you to: 

• Quickly build and protect provider ecosystems 
• Ensure compliance with regulatory updates 
• Track obligations and balance risk across your portfolio 
• Gain 360-degree visibility into provider performance

Join Jennifer Conner, Senior Director of Pharma and Healthcare Industry Solutions at Icertis and Ramkrishna Acharya, Senior Director of Pre-Sales at Icertis, as they demonstrate how Healthcare Payers can leverage contract lifecycle management (CLM) technology purpose-built for this industry to address these common contract challenges.

Maintain Compliance with Contract Lifecycle Management for Healthcare Payers

Contracts are the foundation of every sourcing relationship. By digitalizing the contracting process and connecting contract data to the operational systems they power, procurement organizations can optimize the source-to-contract process and ensure the value of every contract is fully realized after it is signed. In this discussion, we will go beyond contract lifecycle management and into contract intelligence. You will learn how your organization can become uniquely prepared to strengthen key relationships, respond to new challenges and opportunities, reduce supplier risk, better assess contractual performance and obligation compliance and have the visibility into suppliers and agreements the current and future marketplace demands. Join this session for a high energy discussion.

You will learn:

How to manage suppliers and risk in this turbulent economy
How to leverage contracts to plug leakage and maximize revenue potential
How AI and Blockchain will shape the future of contracting
How to use contracts as strategic assets to transform procurement

From Good to Great: Accelerate Business Value with Contract-centric Sourcing

The world, and commerce and contracting, has experienced extraordinary and unrivaled change in the two years since WorldCC last published its much-anticipated Benchmark Report in 2019. This year's research report, sponsored in partnership with Icertis, represents the world's largest and most comprehensive study of contract and commercial management.

Access insights from Tim Cummins, Sally Guyer and Bernadette Bulacan as they analyze and comment on this year's results. The webinar dives deep into key areas and themes including:
 
• Organization and reporting
• Roles and responsibilities
• Measurements and performance indicators
• Tools and technology
• Capabilities and investment

View this webinar to assess and assist in your contract improvement journey and transformation.

Unveiling the Anticipated World Commerce & Contracting 2021 Benchmark Report

The past year has been challenging for everyone.  We all had to quickly adjust to new and unprecedented challenges.  These challenges also resulted in opportunities to think differently about how we operate, from cloud technology, AI, supply chain security to successfully supporting remote workforces.
 
Join our session to learn how contract professionals can:
       • Leverage AI to automatically surface insights from all 3rd party documentation
       • Decrease contract risk with real time intelligence into all aspects of the supply chain
       • More efficiently utilize historical contract data to drive more informed negotiations and 
          better outcomes
       • Seamlessly collaborate across all phases of the contract lifecycle

New Challenges & New Opportunities: Managing Contracts in the New World

Retail has had a lot to adapt to this past year. Remaining competitive when facing battles against restrictions, competitors, and more means every minute counts when streamlining operations. Having full visibility into supplier relationships and sales performance allows you to stay competitive - but this means that simplifying processes like contract management is crucial.

Our webinar will explain how making a few small changes to contract lifecycle management can help speed contract turnaround times, freeing up time from time-consuming admin while ensuring regulatory compliance and improved business performance

Enabling Intelligent Supply Chain For Retail

As supplier networks become more global and interconnected than ever before, companies increasingly rely on their suppliers to perform in order to remain competitive and profitable. In this webinar we discuss how to craft a strategy to efficiently manage supplier performance with the help of technology such as Icertis Contract Intelligence and the Supplier Relationship Management Applications.

What You'll Learn:
1. A flexible, yet rule-based framework for managing suppliers
2. How to integrate supplier capability assessments with supplier governance frameworks
3. Ways to use supplier performance data to detect risks for supply chain continuity

Supplier Performance - The Key to Competitiveness & Supply Chain Continuity

Join us to learn more about risk embedded in contracts, presented by Pierre Mitchell (Chief Research Officer at Spend Matters) and the Icertis Contract Management platform.

Risk Management Strategies

Join us for this upcoming live webinar to find out how your Contract Lifecycle Management system could be working harder for you. The webinar details Microsoft’s experience in moving from a ‘patchwork’ of third-party and internal solutions, to a scalable, streamlined solution from Icertis.

About the speakers and what you will learn: 

Michel Gahard, Associate General Counsel & General Manager, Microsoft

Hear first-hand from Michel about the challenges Microsoft faced and the solutions and implementation best practices they followed for a successful adoption of a NexGen Contract Management system and how implementing the Icertis Contract Management platform resulted in:

- Increased contract compliance
- 60% increase in contract speed
- About 40% decrease in cost

Niranjan Umarane, General Manager of Product Management, Icertis

Niranjan will highlight implementation best practices for a large enterprise-wide initiative and discuss what is so unique about the Icertis Contract Management platform, including:

- Configurable Business Rules Management for a globally dynamic environment
- NextGen, easy-to-use interface
- Quickly get up-and-running in 4-5 months
- Scalability and flexibility based on the cloud-native architecture

Next-Gen Enterprise Cloud Contract Management: A Microsoft Case Study

A candid conversation with Dr. Klaus Richter, former Chief Procurement Officer at Airbus and BMW, and Samir Bodas, CEO of Icertis, about the keys to keeping procurement out in front, now and into the future.

For today’s procurement leaders, delivering on the needs of the business via cost savings and optimized supplier delivery, while also investing in forward-looking innovation and strategic supplier relationships, can feel like a precarious balancing act.

Succeeding in this highwire act requires a new mindset and targeted investments in the people, processes, and technology to drive a holistic approach to business-centric digitally transformed procurement.

Key topics for expert discussion include:
· First-hand experiences guiding high-impact procurement transformations at some of the most iconic businesses in the world;
· Data Is king, but which data is emperor and how to strategically digitize to manage risk, drive value, and effectively innovate;  
· How to manage the additional weight of supply chain disruption and new demands driven by ESG and changing customer sentiment.

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