BOCA RATON – Florida Atlantic University’s College of Business and the South Florida Procurement Professionals (SFPP) recently co-sponsored the 2012 Procurement Best Practices and Networking Summit at FAU’s Office Depot Center for Executive Education, Boca Raton campus.
Senior procurement leaders and their teams from South Florida’s most prominent companies including Office Depot, DHL, Southern Wine & Spirits, JM Family, AutoNation, Brightstar, Citrix, Royal Caribbean and others came together to share best practices.
SFPP has recently partnered with the Operations Group in the Department of Information Technology & Operations Management at FAU’s College of Business. The scope of their partnership covers procurement and supply chain education for FAU students, indirect procurement corporate training for SFPP members, and workforce development in procurement and related fields in South Florida.
The keynote address was by Chris Sawchuk, global procurement advisory practice leader from The Hackett Group, a global strategic business advisory, operations consulting and finance strategy firm that is a leader in business best practices.
The presentation on “Procurement Benchmarking & 2102 Key Indicators” was followed by breakout sessions in which attendees discussed and shared best practices within procurement categories such as Facilities/Warehousing, IT/Telecom, Category Management Best Practices, Professional Services/HR, Marketing and Travel.
Alan Rice, senior director of non-trade procurement at Southern Wine and Spirits of America, Inc., made the opening comments at the event. Tamara Dinev, Ph.D., chair of ITOM, welcomed the attendees to FAU and presented the role and achievements of ITOM.