Marianne Levandoski

VP Strategic Sourcing and Procurement
LabCorp

Marianne Levandoski has over 25 years leading negotiations, strategic sourcing/outsourcing, development/design/delivery of leading edge technology strategies, and architecting procure to pay processes in large-scale enterprise environments. She is an expert in building and refining a company’s organizational infrastructure, products, technologies and processes to optimize results and increase revenue. She is highly experienced in guiding and managing business, IT development, operations, administrative and outsourced teams through all project phases --- including cost analysis, planning, vendor selection, negotiations and acquisitions. Marianne has had outstanding success directing major projects, implementing new business concepts and delivering innovative solutions. She has been responsible for over $1B in annual spend during her careers at AT&T, AIG and LabCorp

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Day 1: Monday, September 15, 2014

Monday, March 9th, 2015

15:30 Employing New And Innovative Practices To Drive Savings

Each year, procurement practitioners say it’s getting harder and harder to meet savings targets, as most hard savings have been negotiated out in the past 5 years. This session will discuss how to use innovative techniques to succeed in procurement’s most valued metric.

Have savings targets become outdated?
Forcing savings by building them into the budget
Will sharing savings targets encourage better attention to costs?
Can cost avoidance ultimately lead to real savings?
Using spend visibility and analysis tools to reduce suppliers and capture additional savings
Standardizing processes across the enterprise to reduce inefficiencies and capture savings