Past event: ProcureCon Direct 2020 Conference

Proactive Solutions To Sourcing In The Evolving World

ProcureCon Direct is the only senior-level direct procurement conference for CPOs and senior level practitioners from the world's leading manufacturers for negotiating costs and managing supplier relationships for the purchasing of raw materials, ingredients and components. With specific sessions and comprehensive content dedicated to your specific direct sourcing challenges, this conference is the best environment for networking and strategies for transforming your procurement function.

Why ProcureCon Is Rated #1

Direct Procurement Content First & Foremost

• Hear from 40+ CPOs and Senior-level practitioners speakers representing procurement innovators from some of the world's largest and most innovative manufacturers. They'll provide detailed, no fluff content. Topics include: generating savings, digital disruption within procurement, and new methods for cost-modelling and supplier relationship management in a rising-cost environment.

The Most Interactive Direct Procurement Event

• Benefit from tons of interactivity with more than 20 hours of discussion groups, workshops, panels, roundtables, and structured networking activities every day. Then unwind and make new friends at our evening reception. This is your opportunity to develop relationships, make new contacts and speak "off-the-record" with your peers. You'll make connections like never before, and become a part of a true community.

Intimate Gathering, Not a Trade Show

• Unlike other direct procurement events, ProcureCon is designed to not be a large, overwhelming trade show. You'll be able to meet all your like-minded peers who share the same challenges as you, and meet the vendors and solutions providers most relevant to your needs, ensuring you go home armed with tools and strategies you can implement immediately.

The Most Interactive Direct Procurement Event

Benefit from tons of interactivity with over 20 hours of discussion groups, campfires, panels, roundtables and structured networking activities every day. Meet peers to bounce ideas off of and hear about how they handle challenges similar to yours. This event is perfect for executives handling the below responsibilities:

• Direct Procurement
• Procurement (direct materials, Manufacturing)
• Sourcing (direct materials, manufacturing)
• Materials Management & Services
• Purchasing (direct materials, manufacturing)
• Supply Chain/Supply Chain Management
• Vendor/Supplier Management
• Procurement Operations
• Category Management (raw materials, ingredients, commodities, equipment, construction, chemicals, etc.)
• Global Procurement & Supply Chain

Who Should Attend

Connect with 150-175 strategy-level procurement executives in corporate services or direct related procurement roles (typically at Fortune 1,000 organizations). Keeping the event at this size allows for the extensive networking we advocate.

If you are a CPO, or a Senior Executive (SVP/VP/Director/Manager) of:

• Procurement (direct materials, manufacturing)
• Sourcing (direct materials, manufacturing)
• Materials Management & Services
• Purchasing (direct materials, manufacturing)
• Supply Chain/Supply Chain Management
• Vendor/Supplier Management
• P2P
• Procurement Operations
• Procurement Center of Excellence
• Category Management (ingredients, commodities, equipment, construction, chemicals, etc)

...you cannot afford to miss this truly unique networking opportunity! Associated Industries

• Heavy machinery/industrial products
• Transportation
• Food & Beverage
• Consumer Products
• Chemical, Plastics, Polymers
• Semiconductor and Hi-Tech
• Consumer electronics
• Medical Devices
• Pharmaceutical
• Aerospace/Defense
• Metals
• Oil & Gas