Challenges of Governance: Trends in Procurement, Contracting and Vendor Management

Melissa Fitzgerald-Fee, Director of Vendor Management Office and Procurement, HMSA
James Lee, Principal, Avasant
Anupam Govil, Managing Partner and Global Head of Sales and Strategic Partnerships, Avasant

As Sourcing deals become more complex, it is critical to build an end-to-end vendor governance program that is platform-enabled and analytics-driven. This inculcates strategic vendor relationships and allows the stakeholders to focus on business transformation priorities.

In this session, seasoned practitioners shared invaluable insights on how to address vendor management challenges through smart governance to deliver business outcomes in a complex ecosystem.

Key Themes:

• How is the Sourcing landscape changing and what are the biggest challenges?
• Latest trends and solutions for building a smart governance program?
• Success strategies for ensuring sustained ROI from Sourcing relationships