September 24, 2009
Meeting
Thursday, September 24, 2009
5:30 pm - Program
"Purchasing Risk and Controls Management"This program will cover the concept of risk, controls, and risk management in the context of purchasing. The concepts here will be tied to enabling agility and TCO in purchasing, and to being proactive from an organizational risk management perspective.
About the Speaker:
Omid Ghamami is the President and Chief Consultant at Purchasing Advantage. He has nearly 15 years experience in purchasing course training, most of it at the Fortune 500 level. He has taught hundreds of courses all over the world, giving clients the tools to improve their operations, their processes, and their results. He is known for his motivational speaking style, which leaves attendees inspired to drive positive change in their organizations.Omid is the author of Purchasing Advantage - Running a World Class Purchasing Organization, a timeless reference guide for purchasing and sales personnel, both novice and seasoned. He is also a member of the Institute for Supply Management™ (ISM), and is a contributing author to eSide Supply Management, a bimonthly digital publication delivered to ISM members.
Omid holds an MBA from the University of California. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Business at Folsom Lake College, where he has been developed an innovative Purchasing Certificate program that will increase the knowledge base and skill sets of current and future purchasing professionals.
He has more than ten years Fortune 50 senior purchasing management experience, managing annual expenditure levels of one billion dollars, negotiating a multitude of complex multi-million dollar contracts, managing mission critical supplier success with business reviews and scorecards, spearheading multi-million dollar offshore software and hardware development initiatives, managing large scale purchasing enterprise system integrations, driving global purchasing risk assessment and controls programs, developing and maintaining global purchasing polices and procedures, managing purchasing integration of mergers and acquisitions, and implementing many cutting edge electronic purchasing tool sets across the corporation.
Price:
$25.00 - members who call prior to deadline
$30.00 - members calling after the deadline
$45.00 - non-members who call prior to deadline
$50.00 - non-members calling after the deadlineREGISTRATION PROCESS
When you attend the meeting, you may use the credit card given, a different credit card or pay by cash or check.
DEADLINE: Sunday, September 20, 2009
If someone registers and does not attend the meeting or does not cancel 48 hours in advance of the meeting, the credit card will be charged. No Exceptions.
Where: Phoenix Airport Hilton
2435 S. 47th Street
Phoenix, AZ
View Larger MapTime: 5:00 pm Registration
5:30 pm Meeting Begins & Dinner Served
6:00 pm ProgramDinner MENU: TBD
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