CAPS Events

CAPS member events

Where leading-edge research & benchmarking come to life

A completely sales-free space where leaders join peers and ignite their best ideas

Come together with supply management leaders from around the world at completely sales-free, consultant-free events ideal for learning, sharing, and building connections - a one-of-a-kind network of visionaries and achievers.

Global events for your whole team

Strategic inspiration for your team

At CAPS events, your team members have the opportunity to learn first-hand from researchers, ask burning questions, share challenges and opportunities, and work collaboratively on solutions in a unique environment that is collaborative and meaningful.

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CPO events

Join fellow senior supply management executives from the world’s top companies and build lasting connections. Our invitation-only CPO events are completely sales-free, consultant-free. Your information stays in the room – the inspiration is yours to take.

CPO Leadership Summit: exclusive, innovative, and inspiring senior executive events

CPO Conversations: candid discussions designed for learning and sharing among a select group of executives

Global Supply Management Roundtables

Converge with other senior management professionals from leading companies in a highly interactive roundtable that will advance you in your practice, discuss what’s next on the horizon, and build a great network.

Global online events
In light of global events, our annual events in Asia and EU/UK have been replaced by the online CAPS Supply Management Virtual Summit, for the time being, allowing members to save travel budgets and conveniently participate from home.

October 19-20, 2021
CAPS Supply Management Roundtable – North America
Scottsdale, AZ

Strategy Exchanges

Connect with companies like yours at CAPS Strategy Exchanges, as we take a deep-dive on one specific topic or industry. We discuss what other companies are doing well, what you can work on now, and what the future looks like. Current industry meetings include Oil & Gas, Aerospace & Defense, and Health Sector.

Research and benchmarking pipeline meetings

Play a critical role in driving the CAPS research and benchmarking agendas. CAPS taps the expertise and interests of member companies to identify key topics and issues of growing importance to ensure our reports are always relevant, practitioner-focused, and practically-applicable.

Webinars

Learn about a specific topic in real-time with experts in the supply management field. Avoid travel costs and get answers to your questions as we explore strategies and best practices in order for you to advance in your organization.

If you have a question about any of our global events or how the CAPS event program could serve your organization, feel free to reach out.

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Inspiration, knowledge, and connection

The last year in events

CAPS events are driven entirely by the interests of our member companies. All our events are completely sales-free, consultant-free, and bias-free.

Building the Research Pipeline - CAPS Research

Prove your value to internal stakeholders - webinar

CAPS events give members the opportunity to gather best practices and insights from other supply management leaders and fortify lasting business connections. Presentations and recordings from many of the events below are available exclusively to CAPS members in the CAPS Library.

A network of supply management visionaries and change-makers

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If you are not at a CAPS member company, please contact us to learn more. Annual corporate membership gives all personnel worldwide access to our newest benchmarking reports and services and research studies, as well as invitations to exclusive, member-only global events.

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What leaders say:

“I think CAPS provides a lot more value than many of the other organizations to join because of the practical application of opportunities that you take away, strategic vision from other CPOs, and probably most importantly, not having to deal with companies that are trying to earn your business. We really get to business rather than having to deal with sales pitches.”

Greg Muñoz
VP, Global Procurement
Sonoco Products Company

“The pairing of the Institute for Supply Management with Arizona State University is a fantastic combination. I found regardless of the industry everybody faces, at some level, the same problems, so the other chief procurement officers I get to interact with are all challenged by the same things and nobody has probably faced a problem that someone else hasn’t before. The networking that we do at the roundtables provides unbelievable benefit to me.”

Susan Spence
Retired, VP, Sourcing & Procurement
FedEx Corporation

“Our bosses expect procurement to deliver more and more to the company's bottom line and the only way we can do that is to make sure we're continuing to take our discipline forward. Continuing to be on the cutting edge of what's happening in our industry as well as other industries. That's where the CAPS organization allows us to benchmark to find any areas where we might be behind, not only our competitors, but all the leading companies out there, so we're sure we can compete with the best of the best.”

Tom Lake
Senior Vice President
Honda North America

“Your executive leadership will be glad you joined due to the best practice sharing and networking from like-minded, progressive senior supply chain executives ... and all with the same aim ... driving positive change to our organizations and enabling improved business performance.”

Thomas Nash, C.P.M., CPIM
Vice President & CPO
American Red Cross

“You should consider joining CAPS. It’s the premier SCM organization made up of CPO’s of F500 companies. It’s non-profit (not vendor influenced) and has great benchmarking data, events, and SCM research projects. On the events side, they have an annual CPO summit that is the ‘who’s who’ of the industry and a great networking opportunity.”

James L. Ferrell, Jr.
Vice President, Supply Chain Management
Plains All American Pipeline

“CAPS Research continues to be an unbiased global supply management research and metrics leader thanks to its nonprofit charter and committed partnerships with senior executives and academic supply chain elites. It creates and promotes uninhibited collaboration among companies and academia on value-added sourcing and strategic supply chain tools, products and services.”

Vincent J. Hrenak
Former CAPS board member and senior supply management executive at Raytheon, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Westinghouse Defense, and U.S. Air Force

“Many research institutes can provide insight into broad categories of sourcing, but very few can thoroughly delve down into sub-tiers as effectively as CAPS Research does. There is enough academic freedom and progressive thought leadership from corporate leaders in collaboration there to ignite discussion and pose challenges to traditional methods of sourcing research and education.”

Kevin Alexander
VP, Supply Chain
Marmon Manufacturing & Shop Repair Services.

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Webinars:

CPO Conversations: - new!

Virtual conferences:

Global Roundtables:

Research Pipeline