Neil Schloss

Manager IT and Marketing Procurement
Perdue Farms

Neil Schloss is the Sourcing Manager for Indirect Procurement at Perdue Farms Inc. supporting IT and Marketing sourcing requirements. He holds a BSIE from University of Buffalo and MBA from New York Institute of Technology. He has held leadership roles for Direct and Indirect procurement areas for more than 30 years in a variety of verticals. They would include heavy industrial organizations like Carrier Air Conditioning, Black & Decker – Kwikset Div., Financial, Insurance and most recently CPG - food processing. He has extensive experience with e-Procurement deployment and effective Procurement engagement within early project creation. He enjoys golf, racquetball and family while living in Scottsdale, AZ

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Day 1: Monday, September 28, 2015

Sunday, April 9th, 2017

11:05 Information Technology

With every department in your company spending some of their budgets on IT, each with different needs and different processes, it’s important to have a unified and coherent program. Discuss during this session:
• Developing relationships with the IT Stakeholders and getting the CIO’s buy-in
• Understanding future needs- not just current ones
• How product lifecycle and upgrade cycles impact the cost and buying process
• Exploiting your sourcing knowledge to show how it dovetails with their category expertise
• How the emergence of cloud and SaaS platforms impacts sourcing strategy
• The interplay of IT with other indirect categories- who owns the project?