Webinar Recording - Cooperative Procurement: Like a Country Love Song

Overview

As a huge country music fan, Tammy Rimes also has a famous singing cousin. But Tammy chose a much more exciting career – that of a Purchasing Agent! Combining her knowledge of both, Tammy is passionate about sharing how cooperative procurement and country music have so much in common. Besides buying stuff like tractors and trucks, cooperative procurement is no longer an emerging trend, it is now a proactive way to gain commodities and services. This informative presentation will help you discover ways in which this contracting tool can help with emergency preparedness, construction projects and unique strategies that you may not be aware of. Highlighting real case studies where procurement teams “rocked” and used innovative ways to solve their problems and includes a panel of cooperative partners to answer your questions on emerging issues. Whether you work in a big city or a small country town, sing a different “tune” by taking your cooperative strategy to the next level.

What You'll Learn

1.  Better understand the ongoing changes in the cooperative environment
2.  Learn how cooperatives can be used for not only commodities, but for services and construction too.
3.  Using the road map to cooperative strategy, learn the questions to ask before selecting a cooperative contract
4.  Discover additional resources and revenues and avenues to get more education and answers to questions

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Registration and payment must be received 24 hours prior to the course start date. After this time, registrations will be based on space availability.  A full refund, less a $75 administrative fee will be given for cancellations made in writing 31+ days prior to the seminar date by emailing RegistrationInfo@nigp.org. No refunds are given for cancellations received within 24 hours of the seminar start date. There are no refunds for no-shows. If the seminar is cancelled for any reason, NIGP's liability is limited to the registration fee only.  

Attendee substitutions within the same agency may be done at any time with email notification to NIGP. If attending via scholarship, please provide documentation verifying the scholarship issuer's name and contact information in lieu of payment information.