APICS St. Louis and the Institute for Supply Management

 Present

 Eric Walsworth – LexisNexis

 “Third Party Risk Management”

 Procurement leaders are flooded with information from supplier data and alerts to industry trends and analytical tools. Sifting through those sources to identify red flags can be daunting. In this session, you'll learn how to filter, prioritize and apply the information available to procurement professionals. We'll present practical takeaways that you can begin using immediately:

• Information sources – how to synthesize and harness information to create or improve upon your supplier risk strategy
• Analytical tools and dashboards
• Common content sharing interfaces to display content

A founding member of Reed Elsevier's (RE) Global Procurement Management Team, Eric Walsworth helped transform RE’s globally dispersed resources across geographical and organizational lines into a centrally coordinated spend management department. Prior to Reed Elsevier, Eric was with Booz & Co and Archstone Consulting, now part of the Hackett Group. Eric recently joined LexisNexis Business Insight Solutions (BIS), one of Reed Elsevier’s divisions, to help LexisNexis clients leverage market intelligence content to address supply management concerns.