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Doug VanWingerden

Senior Vice President
Insight Sourcing Group

Doug Van Wingerden is a Senior Vice President with Insight Sourcing Group and leads its Procurement Transformation practice. Doug has over 20 years of consulting and operations experience and has supported large-scale, transformational programs for clients around the world in a variety of industries. His areas of specialty include process transformation, service delivery strategy, change management, organization design, and technology rationalization.

As a member of the executive leadership team at Insight Sourcing Group, he has helped build and grow the company into one of the largest and most respected pure-play procurement services companies in North America. In 2014, Insight Sourcing Group was included on the Inc. 5000 list (for the 7th year in a row.) Additionally, the company was rated by Consulting Magazine as the #1 Small Strategy Firm to Work for and was rated as the #1 Boutique Consulting Firm in North America by Vault.com.

Prior to joining ISG, Doug was an Executive Partner with Accenture where he was an architect of several of Accenture’s largest and most complex consulting and outsourcing programs. He is also a former Partner with IBM’s Business Consulting Services and a former Senior Project Engineer with Pratt & Whitney.

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Day 2: Accelerating The Journey To Competitive Advantage

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015

13:40 Why You Should Run Your Procurement Organization Like a Consulting Firm

As procurement leaders look to expand their influence and overall impact, they should consider borrowing a page from the consulting industry’s playbook. Leading consulting firms have unique and differentiated offerings, sell their services based on relationships and a deep understanding of the needs of their clients, and drive value by maximizing the output and performance of their most critical resources – their people. The operating model characteristics of high performing consulting firms are similar to those that lead to high performance in procurement. In this session, we will explore:

Common challenges faced by both procurement executives and consulting executives
Why high performing procurement professionals and consulting professionals share similar skill profiles and career paths
How procurement’s influence can be advanced by leveraging account planning techniques common in the services industry
How procurement resources should be managed to drive maximum ROI to the business

15:15 Interactive Roundtables (2 rotations)

TABLE 1: In-Depth: Why Achieving Cost Savings Can No Longer Be About Cutting Rates
Hosted by: John Thornton, Director of Human Capital Solutions, Allegis Global Solutions
Ron Hetrick, Director of Market Analysis, Allegis Global Solutions

TABLE 2: In-Depth: Procurement Excellence in the Networked Economy
Hosted by: Sundar Kamakshisundaram, Senior Director, Solutions Marketing, Ariba

TABLE 3: In Depth: Optimizing Your SOW Program
Hosted by: Lorraine McClure, Manager, Contracts and Supplier Management, Fannie Mae

TABLE 4: In-Depth: Why You Should Run Your Procurement Organization Like a Consulting Firm
Hosted by: Doug VanWingerden, Senior Vice President, Insight Sourcing Group

TABLE 5: In-Depth: Connecting Silos Across The Enterprise
Hosted by: Matthew Schaenzer, Commodity Manager, Intel Corporation

TABLE 6: How Procurement Can Help Save 1,000 Lives A Day
Hosted by: Ian O’Brien, Vice President of Supply Chain, American Cancer Society

TABLE 7: Embracing a Category Management Mindset: How to Think Like a Strategic Category Manager
Hosted by: Alan Veeck, Denali Group

TABLE 8: “Stickier” Source-to-Pay: User Adoption Best Practices
Hosted by: Richard Waugh, VP Corporate Development, Zycus Inc.

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TABLE 10: Collaborating With Your Internal Clients: How To Treat Your Clients As Customers
Hosted by: Louis Williams, Senior Manager – Strategic Sourcing, United Rentals, Inc.