Preparing For the Next Era of Procurement with Orchestration
Thursday, December 5th at 1pm ET
In today’s rapidly evolving procurement landscape, traditional spend management approaches are no longer enough. Decentralized buying, disparate systems, and massive amounts of data require businesses to adopt a new integrated strategy.
Join us as we discuss how AI-enabled orchestration enables procurement teams to overcome these challenges by uniting stakeholders and unlocking more scalable processes. Learn how to apply the principles of orchestration to your organization and see why this strategy is redefining the future of procurement.
About The Speakers
Jason Moore leads Zip’s Enterprise Transformation Office. Jason and his team work with prospective clients to help them envision a future state procurement process enabled by Zip and sell that vision internally. Prior to joining Zip, Jason was the Global Director of Procurement Operations for Discover Financial Services where he led the transformation of Discover’s procurement process and the global deployment of Zip to 20,000+ employees. Jason’s passion for technology, process design, and data-informed decision making has been a central tenet across his 20 year career. Jason is based in Chicago and loves spending time outdoors with his family.
Shao Zhu is the Senior Director of Advisory and Solutions at Zip. Shao is an expert in
strategic sourcing and procurement. He led the team at Apple that managed the commercial
relationship with Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD. He oversees strategic contract negotiations for
critical components such as 5G wireless chipsets for Apple products with multi- year pricing
and supply roadmap. Shao now works as the Director of Advisory and Solutions at Zip,
offering procurement best-practice advice to Zip customers that further enhances their
end-to-end procure-to-pay experience. Shao is based in Sunnyvale California, and is a
passionate fan of Arsenal Football Club
Michael Cadieux is the Founder and serves as CEO of the Procurement Foundry. Michael is a recognized global Indirect procurement thought leader. With more than 25 years of procurement and business experience, he is a sought-after resource within the Indirect Spend community and has spoken at numerous industry conferences and events over the years. Prior to founding Procurement Foundry, he spent 17 years at Publicis Groupe, the second-largest advertising and communications firm in the industry. He was directly responsible for $2.4B of spending, from 65+ business units, and 27,000 employees within Publicis Groupe's holdings in the Americas. Michael's time at Publicis Groupe exposed him to many of the common pain points for practitioners and executives in the procurement industry, as well as the solutions. More often than not, solutions to common problems were forced to resolution by enlisting the services of high-cost consulting firms. The process was both expensive and time-consuming, sometimes resulting in a solution that was not the most effective. These commonplace interactions were the basis for the Procurement Foundry - a fully vetted practitioner-based community where procurement professionals could source solutions from peers instantly and correctly. Since its inception, Procurement Foundry has increased membership to over 3,000 practitioners in 63 countries, started their own series of conferences and webinars on both the Direct and Indirect sides of procurement, and has released two independent salary and compensation surveys to industry acclaim. Procurement Foundry has become a daily resource to its vetted member list, making it one of the most valuable and up and coming resources to the industry.