Tom Beaty

President and Chief Executive Officer
Insight Sourcing Group

Tom is the founder of Insight Sourcing Group and SpendHQ. He has over 20 years of strategic sourcing and management experience. Early in his career, Tom led the turnaround of a 120-employee construction company, converting substantial losses to profitability in under a year—primarily through cost optimization. Tom founded a business in 1994 that resulted in the creation of an early Internet portal. After selling it in 1997, he went on to work with Deloitte Consulting and later was a Director with a 500-person procurement services firm, ICG Commerce (now called Procurion). Tom founded and leads the non-profit Witness to War Foundation (www.witnesstowar.org) which is dedicated to preserving the oral histories of combat veterans. Tom received the 2012 Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Emory University and was named an Ernst &Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist in 2013. He has been named a ‘Pro to Know’ by Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine annually from 2008 through 2013. In 2007, Tom was named a ‘Top 40 Under 40’ award recipient which recognizes 40 of the most promising Atlanta executives under 40. Tom received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later received an M.B.A. with honors from the Goizueta Business School at Emory.

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Day 1: Monday, September 15, 2014

Monday, March 9th, 2015

16:40 Three Leading Procurement Challenges & Best Practices to Resolve Them

Tyranny of the Tactical

How to aggressively limit tactical activities in order to free up capacity to drive high value strategies.

Ugly Spend Data

How to fix a broken data supply chain.

Sourcing Accomplished…Now What?

How to develop advanced category management strategies focused on savings measurement

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

Day 2: Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Thursday, April 9th, 2015

08:35 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

09:05 Panel: Retaining Your Competitive Edge By Focusing On Innovation

The new role of procurement really became defined immediately after the global financial crisis as companies began drastically to implement severe cost cutting strategies yet still needed to remain competitive and retain a strong customer base. As parts of the world return to growth and procurement becomes more and more embedded within company operations, procurement leaders are now being asked to support their businesses to expand as the global economy begins to recover. The work has only just begun, and procurement must now innovate to keep their company competitive.
• When all unnecessary cost has been stripped out of the business, how can procurement leaders assist in branding and new product and market development?
• Moving on from cost savings: How can procurement add real value to business processes to increase competitive advantage?
• Aligning business goals with those in the C-Suite
• How important is stakeholder satisfaction in determining the value of a CPO?
• Can procurement become a steward for the business?
• Has procurement become so pigeonholed in its role, that credibility has diminished and aren’t seen as likely business innovators?