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April showers bring May flowers and May webinars from NAEP. Plant your professional development roots with these two webinars. Both offer 1 hour of continuing education credits.

The Six Pillars to Strategic Sourcing
Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 2:00 pm Eastern
Sponsored by Sourcewell
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Higher Education procurement is steadily moving away from tactical sourcing and instead taking a strategic approach. Sourcewell is proud to collaborate with subject matter experts from your profession to share what it takes to operate strategically in a way that sets your institution up for success. 

Whether you are a from a small college or large university, this webinar will explain six pillars that help you move away from short-term, transactional buying and instead have a plan in place that allows you to be smarter, more strategic, while maximizing the value of spend with your most critical suppliers. 

Learning Objectives

1. Learn about key steps to developing a successful strategy that will increase efficiencies.
2. Learn where and how to obtain relevant data and how to use the data to identify sourcing gaps and opportunities.
3. Learn techniques to developing and maintaining successful supplier relationships that will leave your campus customers satisfied.

Presented by Duane Tucker, Director of Strategic Procurement, University of Colorado, Katie Alba, Membership Development Administrator, Sourcewell, and Melissa Deets, Manager, Education Contract Strategist Team, CDWG

 

Elevate Your Construction Procurement Through Cooperatives
Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 2:00 pm Eastern
Sponsored by Sourcewell
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What is an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract? How can it help with the challenges of procuring construction, repair, or renovation work? IDIQ offers a more simplified solution for completing projects. Join an interactive panel to learn the concepts of IDIQ and how it can elevate your construction procurement. Listen to experts in your field share insights on lessons learned and their experiences of successful projects using IDIQ through cooperatives.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the concept of IDIQ and identify steps to elevate your construction procurement.

2. Learn about the growth, trends and best practices of purchasing construction through cooperatives.

3. Develop creative and trusted techniques to developing and maintaining strong, successful supplier relationships

Presented by Allan Wilson, Director of Real Estate & Auxiliaries, University of Denver, Corey Jensen, Contract Administrator, Sourcewell, and Michael Shiplet, Regional Director, Gordian