Mary Lewis

Sourcing Manager
Sprint

Mary Lewis is a supply chain professional at Sprint Corporation, with 20 years’ management experience in strategic sourcing, negotiating, contracting, procurement, and supplier management for a variety of categories including capital equipment, software, intellectual property, and a broad range of services. Ms. Lewis leads the development and implementation of Sprint’s supply chain sustainability strategy, encompassing over 5,000 active suppliers accountable for billions of dollars in annual, sourceable spend. Ms. Lewis speaks nationally on a broad range of supply chain and sustainability topics to organizations in the public, private, and educational sectors, and is a contributor to various online and print publications. Mary holds a bachelor’s degree from Penn State University, an MA from Webster University, and an MBA from Rockhurst University. Mary is a member of IAOP’s (International Association of Outsourcing Professionals) CSR committee, a member of ISM (Institute for Supply Management), and a past editorial review board member of ISM’s eSide Supply Management publication. Mary was named as a 2014 Supply & Demand Chain Executive “Pro to Know.”

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Day 1: Monday, September 15, 2014

Monday, March 9th, 2015

10:20 Harvesting Innovation From Outside the Enterprise

Innovation doesn't always have to mean new and cool; it could be just a new way of doing things to achieve better results. The more you bring your supplier into this process, the more successful your project outcome will be. Building more collaborative relationships with your key suppliers enables you to identify more improvement and innovation opportunities, encourage investment, and improve execution and success rates. Discuss how to further develop your relationships with your suppliers to extract innovation from your supply base, with the ultimate goal of having your suppliers want to be a part of your innovation processes.

Overcoming ‘traditional’ buyer-supplier attitudes and perceptions of limited information sharing, trust, capabilities and understanding of partner needs
Developing a preferred relationship with your key suppliers
How deeply and how early in the development process can you have your suppliers involved? What’s best practice, what are the constraints, how do you ensure your suppliers follow your corporate protocol?
How do you manage your supplier engagements in practice: how do you receive supplier ideas, how are other functions engaged, how do you staff the project team? How do you liaise between the supplier and the internal departments?

17:00 Interactive Roundtable Discussions (2 rotations)

After a busy day of active listening, keynotes and networking, take control of your own event experience. This is your opportunity to network with industry peers with very similar challenges, interests and responsibilities as you discuss niche topics in a small group setting facilitated by a subject matter expert. After 30 minutes, you will be able to choose a second topic to participate in.

Table 1: Creative Workforce Management: Overcoming the Common Hurdles in Your Talent Management Program

Hosted by: Barry Shields, Sourcing Business Partner, Global Sourcing Services (GSS), NetApp, Inc.

Table 2: Fact Or Fiction: What You Need To Know NOW About Supplier Agreements & Your Meetings

Hosted by: Lisa English, Managing Director, Carlson Wagonlit Travel

Table 3: Tail Spend Management

Hosted by: Sam Mathur, Senior Director Services Procurement, Agile•1

Table 4: Putting Energy Into Your Energy Procurement

Hosted by: Maria Murphy, Schneider Electric Energy & Sustainability Services

Table 5: CapEx Strategies: What You’re Buying Today Didn’t Exist Yesterday

Hosted by: Craig Demarest, Senior Director, Chief of Procurement, RJ Reynolds

Table 6: In-Depth: How Technology Is Changing Procurement

Hosted by: Walter Charles, Global CPO, Kraft Foods

Table 7: Tackling Inefficiencies In MRO Spend

Hosted by: Brad Cook, Director of Purchasing, Indirect & Ammunition, Remington Arms

Table 8: Three Leading Procurement Challenges & Best Practices to Resolve Them

Hosted by: Tom Beaty, Chief Executive Officer, Insight Sourcing Group

Table 9: Strategies for Achieving Supplier Diversity Mandates

Hosted by: Mary Lewis, Sourcing Manager, Sprint

Table 10: Procurement’s Role in M&A

Hosted by: Jeff Danis, Vice President Supply Chain, Pinnacle Entertainment

Table 11: Procurement As A Shared Service

Hosted by: Kevin Chihak, Senior Buyer, PetSmart

Greg Modlinski, Director, Corporate Procurement, Kohler Company

Table 12: P2P Transformation

Hosted by: Michelle Hawkins, Vice President Procurement, Charter Communications