GSSCP Vendor Management Symposium

Date: 15 November 2025
Time: 08:00 PM – 09:30 PM
Venue : Virtual – 90 minutes Zoom Based Session

Registration Open for All GSSCPians. Only selective members will be taken in the hands on session.

Vendor partnerships form the backbone of every supply-value ecosystem — yet many organizations struggle to manage vendor relationships strategically. This symposium is designed to equip supply-chain professionals with a practical, repeatable approach to managing vendors effectively across industries, while introducing a new collaborative GSSCP Vendor Community dedicated to long-term growth and shared excellence.

Objective of the Symposium

This symposium aims to:

• Strengthen participants’ understanding of effective vendor-management frameworks that work across industries.
• Demonstrate how to build trust-based, performance-driven vendor relationships that support continuity, quality, and cost optimization.
• Introduce the newly launched GSSCP Vendor Community — a collaborative platform for suppliers, procurement professionals, and supply-chain leaders to co-learn, co-develop, and elevate the standards of partnership and value creation across the ecosystem.

Key Benefits

By joining this symposium, participants will:

• Learn universal best practices for evaluating, onboarding, and managing vendors efficiently.
• Understand performance measurement and risk-mitigation methods that ensure sustainability and resilience.
• Gain clarity on strategic negotiation approaches that create mutual benefit rather than one-sided leverage.
• Discover how cross-organizational collaboration accelerates innovation, supplier reliability, and cost competitiveness.
• Access opportunities to join the GSSCP Vendor Community for continuous professional learning and networking.

Who Should Join

This session is ideal for:

• Supply Chain Professionals (3+ years’ experience)
• Procurement & Sourcing Executives
• Contract & Vendor Relationship Managers
• Commercial, Operations, & Category Leads
• Senior Managers & Department Heads responsible for supplier performance and business continuity
• Leaders aiming to build strategic, reliable, scalable vendor ecosystems