Building Next-Gen Centers of Excellence

Network with fellow procurement leaders over coffee before diving into the day.

Set the stage for meaningful collaboration. Share your biggest CoE challenges and hear what’s keeping your peers up at night. No corporate facades – just honest dialogue about what needs fixing.

Graphite reveals exclusive survey data and industry insights on what separate high-performing Centers of Excellence from the rest. Benchmark your organization against the leaders.

Learn from hundreds of CoE transformations. The Hackett Group shares frameworks that actually work, metrics that matter, and the pitfalls that derail most initiatives.

Deep dive into emerging technologies and methodologies reshaping how Centers of Excellence operate. Real applications, not theoretical possibilities.

Fireside chat with Western Digital’s procurement leadership. The victories, the failures, and the lessons that only come from building excellence at scale. Ask anything.

Small groups tackle the day’s identified challenges. This is where theory meets reality – collaborative problem-solving with actionable outcomes you’ll implement Monday morning.

Small groups tackle the day’s identified challenges. This is where theory meets reality – collaborative problem-solving with actionable outcomes you’ll implement Monday morning.