Toward the light

Customer-Supplier Division

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    The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. - John Schaar
Customer-Supplier Relationships

Building Stronger Customer Supplier Relationships - Leaping Into The Future Together

Join us for a leap year event designed to help your organization achieve a collaborative spirit in your relationships with key suppliers! With rapid change, we need better partnerships between supplier management and purchasing, as well as between us and our suppliers to remain vital and relevant in the eyes of our customers.

Join us February 27-29 in Durham, North Carolina as we "leap into the future together". Invite purchasing, supplier quality and even your suppliers or customers to join with us!

We'll start with optional pre-Symposium tutorials on Feb. 27, followed by a welcome reception. The Symposium itself will run February 28-29 (yes, leap day!), and will use the World Café format where you will join with other delegates to learn about, and then work together to find the solutions to attain a better future through collaboration. We will also feature "best practice" presentations from our delegate community.

Please take a look at the program and what others have had to say about CSD's Symposium approach. Consider the possibility of a future with stronger collaboration both inside and outside your organization! Hope you'll join us for this historic leap!

Focus Areas & Speakers

Dennis Arter

Dennis Arter

The Future and Change

"The Audit Guy"
Columbia Audit Resources

Greg Hutchens

Greg Hutchins

Risk in the Supply Chain

Founding Principal
Quality Plus Engineering

Patsy Brown

Patsy Brown

Supplier Development

Founding Principal
Brown & Associates