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The knowledge and network to inform and inspire your practice

The CAPS member network is actively shaping the future of supply management

Join a select group of companies that are shaping the future of the function.

CAPS is at the forefront of the profession, exploring the future of supply management, empowering companies like yours with strategies, best practices, and deep insights that elevate your organization and your team. Regardless of your starting point, what are you doing now to make sure you're well-positioned to lead in the future of supply management? Are you ready to begin your journey with CAPS?

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Game-changing knowledge & insights for your whole team

All our offerings past and future are completely sales-free and bias-free, giving our members space to honestly and openly examine their challenges, devise strategies, and acquire knowledge from fellow global supply management leaders. Hear what Kevin Alexander, Vice President of Supply Chain at Marmon Rail, has to say about his membership with CAPS Research in the video below.

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Future-focused unbiased research

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Strategic KPIs and best practices

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Topic & industry Strategy Exchanges

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Benefits unique to CAPS membership

We currently offer one membership level, Enterprise Unlimited. As a B2B nonprofit research center affiliated with the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, our goal is to help you reach or surpass your strategic goals and advance the profession in such a way that you drive our agenda. CAPS is never influenced by outside interests, third-party bias, or consultants.

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Multinational corporates and growing organizations worldwide partner with CAPS each year because of our bias-free knowledge base and phenomenal network of supply management leaders. How could you be more strategic and visionary in your own practice?

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CAPS Enterprise Unlimited membership is available to companies of more than $2 billion in annual revenue and provides your entire supply management team with unlimited access to practitioner-focused primary research, benchmarking and best practices, customized data, and peer-to-peer networking events. Enterprise Digital Access is available to smaller organizations.

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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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