
Rising Star Award
This award recognized an individual newer to the industry whose thought leadership and expertise have shown promise that is likely to have a lasting impact on the industry.
This award recognized an individual newer to the industry whose thought leadership and expertise have shown promise that is likely to have a lasting impact on the industry.
This award recognized a seasoned veteran whose thought leadership and innovative work in the sourcing field have made a transformative difference over the course of their career.
Digitization is the process of converting information into a digital format, in which the information is organized into bits.
ESG focuses mainly on the sustainable, societal, and ethical impacts of an organization or program.
Governance and compliance projects focus on being in alignment with guidelines, regulations, and/or legislation.
Outsourcing is the transferring of a process or function to an external provider.
Sourcing refers to the practices involved with finding, evaluating and engaging suppliers of goods and services.
Supplier Diversity refers to an organization’s effort to empower a more diverse and equitable supplier network.
Supplier Performance is a system for monitoring, managing, controlling and influencing a supplier's ability to meet business needs and goals.
Sustainability is the integration of social, ethical and environmental performance factors into the process of selecting products, services or suppliers.
Talent management refers to the anticipation of required human capital for an organization and the planning to meet those needs.
Third-party risk management is the process whereby companies monitor and manage interactions with all external parties with which it has a relationship.