Ketera to Lead Best Practices in Social Commerce Workshop at Procure-to-Pay Summit
Topic: Maximizing the Value of Buyer-Supplier Relationships through Integrated Networks
San Jose, Calif., Feb 17, 2010 – Ketera, provider of the online Ketera Network business community, announced today that new Vice President of Strategic Accounts, Mary Ellen Mitchell, will be leading a social commerce best practices workshop at next week’s Procure-to-Pay Summit in Miami, Florida. Mary Ellen joins Ketera from her role as Vice President, Global Strategic Sourcing and Procurement for Softtek, and previously as Director of Global Strategic Sourcing for Office Depot, which together shaped her views on opportunities for businesses to better capture the value of growing B2B commerce networks.
This 3-hour session investigates the dynamics of an improving economy and innovative technologies on today’s marketplace and highlights the need to optimize buyer-supplier relationships. Areas of focus include:
- How to effectively and efficiently mine through your supplier base, develop scorecards based on supply chain analytics and create a consolidated master view with significantly reduced touch points and redundancies
- How to formalize trading partner relationships with technology and drive automation to reduce costs
- How to transform vendors into strategic suppliers by leveraging insights into current relationships and discovering opportunities to intelligently forge new relationships
- How to extend beyond the traditional value of compliance and control and enable dynamic optimization of your supply base by conducting source-to-pay activities on a buyer-supplier community-based network
Leslie Cedar, VP of Business Development at Ketera, commented, “Mary Ellen’s thought-leadership in understanding how to leverage trading relationships and automate buyer-supplier networks provides an illuminating perspective in today’s cloudy economic climate. I am thrilled to have her join us at Ketera to lead the charge to help organizations improve supplier relationships and gain strategic advantage. Her diverse experience in strategic sourcing, outsourcing services, and procurement as a practitioner, consultant, and service provider both domestically and internationally offers an unmatched 360-degree view of this challenge.”
