free webinar

Join DILF – Dansk Indkøbs- og Logistik Forum CEO,  Søren Vammen and myself (Lubos Libiak) Cirtuo’s Customer & Delivery Executive on June 21st at 3:00 pm CET for an insightful webinar: “Procurement is a mechanism to respond – but what are you responding to?”

Søren and myself will discuss procurement’s value proposition – a strong methodology to connect to the overall business agenda and will cover topics that include:

• How to create the procurement value proposition
• Selling the procurement value proposition to internal stakeholders
• Linking category strategies to the procurement value proposition
• How can digitalization support the journey?
• Q&A

When: 

Tuesday, June 21st at 3:00-4:00 pm CET

Where:

You can register for the event by following this link

We look forward to seeing you there.

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