Virtual Roundtable: Partnering for Performance – How a Dynamic CFO-CIO Relationship can Drive Supply Chain Innovation

In a supply chain, a contract creates certainty and predictability by clearly articulating the parties’ respective rights, roles and responsibilities. As Paul Humbert, business strategist and author writes: “The purchase of goods or services are not only expenditures of capital, but inevitably affect the organizations’ revenue, cost structure and risk profile. Many such transactions involve complex internal financial considerations regarding whether to preform or provide “inhouse” or on an “outsourced basis”.

As part of the product development and delivery fabric of the business, IT is accountable for ensuring that transactions are conducted in compliance with company practice and regulation, with the Chief Information Officer bearing responsibility for how information is created, processed and cycled throughout the organisation and the third party businesses that comprise the supply chain.

Companies like Alibaba, Amorepacific, China Gas, DBS and Midea Group, have shown that success means members of the supply chain working together in harmony, so too within the business, the CFO must collaborate closely with the CIO to ensure sustained profitability in good times and bad.

The pandemic of 2020 redefines crisis competitiveness to new levels for which neither CFO nor CIO are prepared. With unpredictability elevating disruption to a whole new level, it becomes apparent that nothing short of an integrated mindset will see businesses through the storm.

Welcome to “Partnering for performance – how a dynamic CFO-CIO relationship can drive supply chain innovation” a CXOCIETY roundtable discussion, co-hosted with Anaplan, on how the CFO and the CIO can co-orchestrate a sustainable digital workflow that nothing short of an integrated digital-physical mashup can secure the business’ future post-crisis.

In this dialogue of peers, we will cover topics like:

• How to automate foundational and transactional processes
• How to identify areas to drive value and spot trends
• How to increase enterprise-wide partnerships and collaboration