ARKESTRO OPTIMAL '25
TRACKS

Transformation
Explore how leading organizations are reinventing procurement as a strategic force—driving agility, innovation, and cross-functional impact across the business.
Arkestro’s Predictive Procurement accelerates enterprise spend transformation by combining AI with deep Negotiation Science, Supplier Science, and Process Science, enabling teams to unlock trapped savings and strengthen supply chain agility.

Margin Impact
See how teams influence spend before it's committed—improving pricing, reducing risk, and turning procurement into a margin driver.
Using Arkestro’s AI-powered approach and game theory, procurement teams can improve win-rates and secure greater value across a broader portion of spend.

Productivity
Learn how to do more with less by streamlining sourcing workflows, reducing manual effort, and scaling procurement’s impact through automation.
Arkestro’s Predictive Procurement enables teams to influence significantly more spend, increasing throughput while freeing resources for higher-value work.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2025
8:30AM – 10:00AM
Arkestro Advanced User Training (Customers Only*)
Join our comprehensive Arkestro advanced training to master AI-enhanced procurement. Learn how to create efficient events that deliver measurable impact while streamlining your supplier relationships. This hands-on certification will take you through the latest procurement process, equipping you with the skills to become a strategic procurement leader in your organization.
10:30AM – 1:00PM
"Better Skills, Better Outcomes" with the Gap Partnership
This highly interactive session on The Principles of Negotiation by The Gap Partnership will aid professionals in thinking about negotiation differently to optimize their potential for commercial success. The session will introduce different types of negotiation and speak about the behavioral and tactical preparation and execution techniques that enable commercial effectiveness through these different types of negotiation.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2025
Wave 1 (10:30AM – 11:15AM)

TRANSFORMATION
Future of Work: Your Organization 2.0
The session addresses the impetus for workforce transformation- it’s never been stronger- and how does your operating transformation or personal survival become more feasible? more relevant to your coalition? how do you accelerate and practically deliver what’s possible in your digital tools?
This forum provides you advice, vision, and a plan to begin replacing and automating process, addressing tech vs talent requirements, tangibly leveraging new supplier and organizational networks; how to translate the new “value language’, and get to re-designing procurement, supply chain and finance ways of working with digital work in mind.

MARGIN IMPACT
Going Predictive with Materials Procurement: Indirect & Direct for Manufacturing
In this session we will go deep with predictive procurement programs for materials procurement, both direct and indirect for manufacturing. Focusing on case studies at Crown Cork & Seal and Provisur, we will look at the challenges associated with taking high-SKU market baskets to market with multiple qualified suppliers, where awards will often include split demand plans as well as other multi-conditional and bi-conditional structures that must account for local preferences and operational requirements for specific production sites while still driving towards leveraged buying power, consolidated demand, and volume based discounts with preferred supplier partners.
We’ll also specifically look at acute prior pain points around quote analysis, subjectivity and opinion versus fact-based negotiation science, and the power of cohort analysis in generating Alternative Incumbent maps within the supplier master data.

PRODUCTIVITY
Project Procurement and the Power of Predictive: Where Speed-to-Market Creates Revenue Advantages
In this deep dive session on project procurement, we’ll hear from leaders at Power Design and KES about how they leveraged Arkestro in sourcing and benchmarking for procuring materials and services as projects. Project procurement, while involving the methods of strategic sourcing, supplier negotiation, and cost modeling, has significant differences in process design and desired business outcome related to the role it often plays in driving both margin and topline revenue.
In this session, we’ll look specifically at procurement procurement and the power of predictive procurement in creating efficiencies, driving margins, and acting as a force multiplier on procurement’s bandwidth.
Wave 2 (11:30AM – 12:15PM)

TRANSFORMATION
From Episodes to Engines: Arkestro's Product Vision for Continuous Procurement
In this session we will go deep with predictive Building on the keynote, this session takes a deeper look at Arkestro’s product vision to transform episodic sourcing into a continuous, value-generating process. We’ll showcase upcoming functionality that enables this transformation, all designed to enhance the experience for both procurement and supplier users.
Join us to explore how Arkestro is equipping teams to scale smarter, faster, and more collaboratively.

MARGIN IMPACT
Unlocking the Unseen: How Arkestro Users Found Value Where None Existed Before
Hear from Arkestro customers as they share real-world Arkestro events that were either previously impossible or unimaginable before adopting the platform. Learn how the power of predictive procurement enabled them to rethink legacy processes, uncover hidden opportunities, and deliver breakthrough savings—both in cost and operational efficiency.

PRODUCTIVITY
Scaling Smart in Europe: Real Stories of Transformation from Three Global Leaders
Join a dynamic panel featuring leaders from a global chemical company, a global roofing supply manufacturer, and a world-renowned branded cheese manufacturer as they share how they’ve scaled the Arkestro platform across Europe. From re-engineering processes and gaining supplier buy-in to navigating cultural complexity and user adoption, hear how these organizations are driving efficiency and change with Arkestro across diverse European markets.
Wave 3 (1:30PM – 2:15PM)

TRANSFORMATION
Global-First, Change-Ready: Lessons from Two Enterprise Rollouts in a global environment
In this session, hear how a global oil and gas company and a global engineering services company successfully rolled out predictive procurement software across multiple continents—including Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, and the Americas. We’ll unpack their strategies for planning, change management, and scaling adoption across teams and time zones—plus what they’re eyeing next as global expansion continues.

MARGIN IMPACT
Global Enterprises Secret Weapon for Offsetting Tariffs and Rightsizing Margins: Bigger, Faster Wins in Freight Procurement
In this engaging session, we’ll hear from leaders at Standard Industries and Solventum about how they leveraged Arkestro to unlock a new business approach to rate management across their portfolio of logistics to achieve a continuous cost improvement, improved contract utilization (and decrease in last-minute spot quotes) with qualified preferred carriers.

PRODUCTIVITY
Beyond Sourcing
In this session, hear how Arkestro customers are using the platform to drive transformational value across a variety of workflows beyond sourcing. We’ll showcase several use cases, including: how one customer integrated Arkestro for dynamic MRO spot buys, how another uses the platform to continuously refresh its pricebooks, and how yet another is leveraging Arkestro’s real-time data and automation to drive faster, more informed decisions on spot buys.