Indirect Procurement in Manufacturing
“You'll learn first-hand how your peers have found success maximizing opportunities and demonstrating the value of indirect procurement in companies of diverse size and complexity. You'll also get insight to the challenges and solutions your peers have found, across a spectrum of industries.”
— Commodity Manager, Indirect , Shure
Agenda: Indirect Procurement in Manufacturing
Tuesday, June 21
6:00 – 7:00 pm ET
Reception
If you're in town, join us in the Greatroom at Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Tower to meet your fellow attendees and do a little networking.
Wednesday, June 22
7:00 – 8:00 am ET
Breakfast
8:00 – 8:30 am ET
Welcome and Introductions
Set the scene for the day's agenda with Manufacturers Alliance's Kris Bledowski and Kristy Kelly.
8:30 – 9:30 am ET
MRO Management Panel Discussion
The event will kick off with a panel of indirect leaders taking a deep-dive into the tactical challenges of managing MRO. Hear from Chad Gritzmaker, Senior Manager Procurement, Digitalization and Analytics, Adient, and Program Manager, Strategic Sourcing, Masco. Key questions for discussion will include:
- Which modern digital tools do you deploy to process purchase orders?
- If you procure a tailor-made MRO program, how do you design its RFP and how do you implement the process itself?
- And how do you manage multiple suppliers in a coherent and consistent way?
Panelists
Chad Gritzmaker
Senior Manager Procurement, Digitalization and Analytics, Adient
Chad Gritzmaker joined the Adient team as a Senior Manager responsible for Digitization & Analytics with a focus on Indirect Purchasing globally. He develops and executes digital strategy for Indirect Purchasing working with regional stakeholders. He joined Adient from NSK Americas where he was most recently responsible for managing Indirect Purchasing in Americas region. He held multiple roles with increasing responsibility within Purchasing and IT over 8 years at NSK. During his tenure at NSK, he was part of various digitization initiatives including global ERP implementation, procure to pay application, supplier portal development, robotic process automation and reporting. Prior to NSK Americas, Chad has 12 years of experience in supply chain and operations in manufacturing. Chad has a Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management from Western Michigan University.
9:30 – 9:45 am ET
Networking Break
9:45 – 10:30 am ET
Supplier Diversity in Indirect Procurement
Nathan Hemmer, Senior Corporate Director, Procurement Engineering at Fortive Corporation will provide an overview of their supplier diversity journey. The delivery will touch upon the origin of the program (leadership buy-in, materiality study, a kickoff event for the steering team), the KPIs selected (level 1 scorecard and tactical measures for a diversity manager), actions to drive results (supplier and stakeholder sides) as well as ways to draw in the CEO’s office. The audience will be invited to chime in with suggestions on the next steps.
Nathan Hemmer
Senior Corporate Director, Procurement Engineering, Fortive Corporation
Nathan Hemmer is currently the Sr. Corp Director – Procurement Engineering & Supply Base Development for Fortive Corporation. In this role Nathan leads Fortive’s Supply Chain Sustainability initiatives, currently focused on human rights and supplier diversity. Since 2016 he has been responsible for supplier quality across the corporation intent on driving value-added process commonality in the decentralized structure that is core to Fortive culture. Nathan supports the Fortive Engineering community globally through best practice identification and process development as well as managing the relationships with our development partners and driving the value engineering practice on a global basis. With Danaher Nathan held a similar role on the corporate team and prior to that was the Vice President of Engineering at one of the operating companies within Danaher. Before joining Danaher Nathan held roles in engineering leadership/supply chain development at a several aerospace companies supplying systems and structures to the airframe manufacturers. Nathan has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Bradley University and a Master of Business Administration from Northern Illinois University. Nathan is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Oregon where he resides. During his “free” time Nathan is a winegrower in the Willamette Valley, farming and managing a 19 acre property in the Dundee Hills AVA alongside his wife, Kimberly. In addition to raising Pinot Noir and Chardonnay Nathan is the winemaker for the Hemmer Vineyards label produced at the estate.
10:30 – 11:15 am ET
A Digital Roadmap to Sourcing Efficiency
Sorting out indirect cacophony of vendors, territories, and applications is a far cry from the established efficiency of direct spend management. Alex Tam, Sourcing Manager at Milliken will lay out the approach, management buy-in, selection process, and implementation tips.
11:15 am – 12:00 pm ET
Roundtable Discussion
12:00 – 1:15 pm ET
Lunch
Grab a bite and network with your peers.
1:15 – 2:00 pm ET
Sustainability Reporting – SASB Metric Tracking
Sean McGowan, Director Supply Chain and Sourcing at IDEX Corporation will walk through the design of bi-annual sustainability reports. Sean will also showcase ways to utilize SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board) metrics and different subindices track diverse elements of the supply chain. This in turn requires customized tracking. The discussion will teach the audience best practices and new ideas that support this initiative.
2:00 – 2:15 pm ET
Break
2:15 – 3:00 pm ET
Leveraging the GPO Approach to Category Management
More than ever, procurement teams are tasked with doing more with less. Particularly in indirect spend, resources devoted to category management have continued to decline while managed spend and savings goals continue to grow. In this presentation, Andy Matyas, Managing Director, CoVest Sourcing Network, will discuss the category management process of a Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) and how partnering with a GPO can augment an organization’s indirect procurement strategy. Learn how partnering with a GPO that applies leverage, resources, and analytics can multiply the category management resources at your disposal, and drive savings, without adding cost.
Andy Matyas
Managing Director at CoVest Sourcing Network
As Managing Director at CoVest, Andy oversees CoVest’s core MRO & Facilities Services platform. Andy has also drawn on his experience in finance to build an Analytics team focused on providing sourcing and category management tools for CoVest Members. In addition to Spend Categorization tools, the CoVest Analytics Team provides a wide array of savings, spend, auditing and compliance analyses for Members. Andy is a graduate of Ohio University (BA) and Cleveland State University (MBA).
About CoVest Sourcing Network: CoVest is a Group Purchasing Organization focused on large corporations, founded on partnership, transparency, and providing value-added services. We enable members to realize significant cost savings through the utilization of our supplier agreements that drive down costs for indirect categories by leveraging the collective purchasing power of member companies. CoVest provides best-in-class pricing to our members through these negotiated supplier agreements.
3:00 – 3:45 pm ET
Solution to Manage Tail Spend in Indirect
David Yost, Procure to Pay Manager at Materion Corporation, will discuss how Materion sought to control tail spend. Beginning in 2018, Materion wanted to start finding better ways to source materials in the tail spend area to preferred suppliers. David will discuss how Materion took thousands of small transactions and found hundreds of thousands in savings, moving away from the small, local suppliers, to Materion’s Strategic Partners.
