Live Webinar April 5th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

Once offloaded from the drudgery of data preparation, data scientists have a career-making opportunity to use more diverse data sets to deliver bigger business returns.

Case in point: Spend Analytics.

In Procurement, enterprises struggle to answer basic questions such as:

• How many suppliers do I have?
• What’s the impact on our spend if the price of steel rises 10%?,
• Which suppliers have the lowest total cost of ownership?, and
• Which business units should collaborate to bundle their spend?

In this hands-on session, you’ll learn about:

• How Big Data has changed the definition of spend analytics
• Three advanced analytics being performed by best-in-class procurement organizations
• Ways to accelerate procurement’s analytics journey
• How companies using Tamr are gaining new levels of insight into spend over previous analytic tools, in one case identifying new savings opportunities worth $100M+

Presenters:

Matthew Holzapfel (LinkedIn profile) is an independent procurement consultant at Tamr Inc. Previously, Matt held positions in Strategy and Strategic Sourcing where he led the implementations of new sourcing techniques to significantly lower procurement costs. Matt has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and is a recent graduate of Harvard Business School.

Eliot Knudsen (LinkedIn profile) is a Field Architect at Tamr where he works on technical implementation and deployment. Eliot works with fortune 100 clients to reduce spend by unifying sourcing data and implementing procurement analytics. Previously Eliot was a Data Scientist in Healthcare IT, applying machine learning to patient-provider matching algorithms. Eliot is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University in computational mathematics, statistics and machine learning.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 12.1 Plan Procurement Management
• 12.3 Control Procurements

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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How Data Science & Spend Analytics
Found $100 Million+ In Savings