Procurement Thought Leadership by Kelly Barner
Kelly Barner owns, manages, and edits Buyers Meeting Point. She has a unique perspective on procurement from the numerous roles she has held during her 15 years in procurement. Kelly worked for Ahold USA (parent company of grocery chains Stop & Shop, Hannaford, Giant Landover, and more) on their not for resale sourcing team, specializing in systems implementation and hired services category sourcing. She spent three years as the Associate Director of consulting services at Emptoris before it was acquired by IBM in 2011.
For the last seven years she has covered procurement news, events, publications, solutions, trends, and relevant economics at Buyers Meeting Point. Buyers Meeting Point provides the procurement industry with an events calendar, blog, active social media network, and podcast, all of which are trusted sources of information for practitioners and solution providers alike. Kelly has several regular columns throughout the industry, and in the summer of 2016 was appointed to become the Business Survey Chair for the ISM-New York Report on Business.
Kelly has her MBA from Babson College as well as an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons College. Kelly has co-authored three books: ‘Supply Market Intelligence for Procurement Professionals: Research, Process, and Resources’ (2014), ‘Procurement at a Crossroads: Career Impacting Insights into a Rapidly Changing Industry’ (2016), and 'Finance Unleashed: Leveraging the CFO for Innovation' (2017).
Procurement, Spend Analysis, Negotiation, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain, eProcurement Technology, Book Reviews, Professional Development, Purchasing, and Supply Management
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Corporate | Type | Tweets | Articles | |
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Kearney Consulting, Business Consulting and Services | Kearney Consulting, Business Consulting and Services | Other 26 Feb 2024 | | |
NTT DATA IT services, IT Services and IT Consulting | NTT DATA IT services, IT Services and IT Consulting | Other 26 Feb 2024 | | |
Fujitsu Electricals, Information Technology and Services | Fujitsu Electricals, Information Technology and Services | Other 17 Feb 2024 | | |
Novo Nordisk Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing | Novo Nordisk Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing | Other 14 Sep 2023 | | |
Accenture Consulting, audit, Business Consulting and Services | Accenture Consulting, audit, Business Consulting and Services | Other 24 Feb 2024 | | |
FedEx Delivery, Freight and Package Transportation | FedEx Delivery, Freight and Package Transportation | Other 31 Dec 2020 | | |
Amazon IT services, Consumer Electronics, Software Development | Amazon IT services, Consumer Electronics, Software Development | Other 26 Jul 2020 | | |
SAP IT services, Software, Software Development | SAP IT services, Software, Software Development | Other 9 Jun 2021 2 Dec 2023 | | |
Cisco IT services, Software Development | Cisco IT services, Software Development | Other 11 Jul 2020 | | |
Deutsche Post und DHL Logistics, Truck Transportation | Deutsche Post und DHL Logistics, Truck Transportation | Other 21 May 2021 | |