PLATINUM SPONSOR
Supporting the Award for Procurement Excellence
BrainNet is one of the leading international brands for supply chain management consultancy. Employing 240 members of staff, BrainNet turns over CHF 50 million globally. BrainNet develops and realizes tailored solutions for more than 90 of the companies listed in the Global Fortune-500 and around 300 fast growing SMEs. For years, BrainNet has had offices in West and Eastern Europe, Noth and South America as well as Asia.
Through its close collaboration with the Supply Chain Management Institute (SMI) at the EBS Business School, BrainNet offers a totally unique value-creation chain ranging from research and training young talent at leading business schools to implementing consultancy projects and strategic qualification of top managers and supply chain managers.
GOLD SPONSOR
Supporting the Award for Innovation
Ariba provides a unique blend of domain expertise, operational services, and technology solutions that accelerate and facilitate the journey toward an improved bottom line and effective spend management. At Ariba, we understand that technology by itself is not a solution. Successfully guiding companies on this journey requires sourcing, procurement, and commodity experts around the world working in tandem with your organization to optimize your spend management processes and supplier relationships. And then leveraging the broadest technology platform to make the attainment of these benefits repeatable in the long term. The most critical ingredient to beginning and successfully completing your journey is organizational buy-in. Ariba will help you gain that support at all levels — up, down, inside, and outside your organization — and then work with you to plan, build, and integrate an effective spend management solution to help you achieve your goals.
www.ariba.com
SILVER SPONSORS
Supporting the Award for Procurement Leader
The Smart Cube specializes in providing customized procurement and supply chain research to global corporations, management consulting firms and specialist procurement service providers. Our research capabilities cover all critical markets and extend across the globe – from North America and Western Europe to Low Cost Countries, including China, India and Eastern Europe.
Supporting the Award for Procurement Transformation
Since its creation 12 years ago, h&z Business Consulting with offices in Germany, France and Switzerland has supported more than 300 companies in the fields of Procurement, Strategy, Production and Business Excellence.
Our teams are exclusively staffed with experienced consultants thereby combining a high degree of consulting and industry expertise. For h&z Business Consulting, successful projects are more than just smart concepts: it is about passionate teamwork and achieving sustainable success together with our clients.
http://www.huz.de/
Supporting the Award for Procurement Team of the Year
Procurian is the Procurement Outsourcing Specialist. Unlike internal, consultative or technology driven approaches, Procurian has an informational advantage through real-time market knowledge, delivered by specialized experts in each buying category, and integrated through a comprehensive, end-to-end approach that delivers realized, not just promised savings to the bottom-line.
http://www.procurian.com
Supporting the Award for Public Sector
Gatewit is a leading eProcurement platform developer. With over 25,000 clients, organizations around the world have implemented Gatewit eProcurement platforms to achieve best value, costs savings and increase visibility over spend.
With more than a decade of experience in public and private organizations our industry knowledge, expertise and technology capabilities allow us to tailor our solutions to customers’ needs. Above all Gatewit is focused on driving high value to its customers with efficient and effective purchasing processes.
Supporting the Award for Future Leader of the Year
Michael Page Procurement provides specialist recruitment services across Europe.
With 84 offices in the region, our specialist recruiters are focused by discipline, geography and sector to ensure we possess the most in-depth market knowledge available.
This infrastructure allows us to meet with our customers and build strong one-on-one relationships enabling us to truly understand your requirements and consistently deliver the best results.
We provide our clients with a comprehensive network of talented candidates; which in turn means our candidates receive unparalleled access to the employer market.
We recruit CPOs, indirect and direct strategic sourcing and category management professionals, purchase-to-pay systems, e-sourcing, SRM and commissioning and procurement transformation specialists for permanent, contract and interim assignments.
Our service is designed to facilitate the delivery and development of world-class sourcing teams via the full spectrum of recruitment methodologies, including executive search, networking, advertised selection and database search.
Supporting the Award for CSR
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TECHNOLOGY PROVIDER
Providing the Awards judging technology
QinetiQ Commerce Decisions delivers proven software - AWARD®, best practice knowledge and expert services to assist sourcing projects through-life; from preparation, qualification, evaluation, negotiation to continuous supplier performance review and contract compliance.
AWARD software provides a central web-based information and process & infrastructure enabling project teams to collaboratively make major contract decisions and monitor subsequent performance. It is proven to significantly increase contract value and reduce risk and used in projects totalling over £60 billion to date.