Let the Business Source Directly Without Losing Control: Governance Best Practices for Decentralized Sourcing in the Age of AI

Fully centralized procurement was never the finish line...

Sourcing platforms make it possible for local teams to run their own sourcing events while respecting your policies, rules and category strategies. Learn how to build the governance model that keeps it safe and scalable, featuring a real case study from Sonoco's plant floor.

Join Elizabeth Mozley, Director, Global Process Owner, Source to Pay at Sonoco, Joël Collin-Demers, Consulting Principal at Pure Procurement, Justin Cruz, head of Customer Success at Fairmarkit and Angela Cantu, Customer Success Director at Fairmarkit, as they discuss how Sonoco gave their plant buyers on-demand, competitive bidding capabilities for targeted indirects while retaining strategic contracting to drive benefits.

The results:

• Savings from both models, run side by side
• Plants cleaned their material data before every event, giving strategic sourcing better data
• A new way to spot high-potential plant buyers

What you'll walk away with:

• Where your organization sits on the path from centralized to "center-governed"
• A 3-question triage to decide what sites can source and what stays central
• How to govern site-level sourcing with living policies and auditable systems
• How to turn decentralized sourcing into a data quality engine and a talent pipeline