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CAPS Research (the Center for Advanced Procurement Strategy) is a B2B nonprofit research center at Arizona State University, serving supply management leaders at Fortune 1000 companies.

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What leaders say:

“I think CAPS provides a lot more value than many of the other organizations to join because of the practical application of opportunities that you take away, strategic vision from other CPOs, and probably most importantly, not having to deal with companies that are trying to earn your business. We really get to business rather than having to deal with sales pitches.”

Greg Muñoz
VP, Global Procurement
Sonoco Products Company

“The pairing of the Institute for Supply Management with Arizona State University is a fantastic combination. I found regardless of the industry everybody faces, at some level, the same problems, so the other chief procurement officers I get to interact with are all challenged by the same things and nobody has probably faced a problem that someone else hasn’t before. The networking that we do at the roundtables provides unbelievable benefit to me.”

Susan Spence
Retired, VP, Sourcing & Procurement
FedEx Corporation

“Our bosses expect procurement to deliver more and more to the company's bottom line and the only way we can do that is to make sure we're continuing to take our discipline forward. Continuing to be on the cutting edge of what's happening in our industry as well as other industries. That's where the CAPS organization allows us to benchmark to find any areas where we might be behind, not only our competitors, but all the leading companies out there, so we're sure we can compete with the best of the best.”

Tom Lake
Senior Vice President
Honda North America

“Your executive leadership will be glad you joined due to the best practice sharing and networking from like-minded, progressive senior supply chain executives ... and all with the same aim ... driving positive change to our organizations and enabling improved business performance.”

Thomas Nash, C.P.M., CPIM
Vice President & CPO
American Red Cross

“You should consider joining CAPS. It’s the premier SCM organization made up of CPO’s of F500 companies. It’s non-profit (not vendor influenced) and has great benchmarking data, events, and SCM research projects. On the events side, they have an annual CPO summit that is the ‘who’s who’ of the industry and a great networking opportunity.”

James L. Ferrell, Jr.
Vice President, Supply Chain Management
Plains All American Pipeline

“CAPS Research continues to be an unbiased global supply management research and metrics leader thanks to its nonprofit charter and committed partnerships with senior executives and academic supply chain elites. It creates and promotes uninhibited collaboration among companies and academia on value-added sourcing and strategic supply chain tools, products and services.”

Vincent J. Hrenak
Former CAPS board member and senior supply management executive at Raytheon, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Westinghouse Defense, and U.S. Air Force

“Many research institutes can provide insight into broad categories of sourcing, but very few can thoroughly delve down into sub-tiers as effectively as CAPS Research does. There is enough academic freedom and progressive thought leadership from corporate leaders in collaboration there to ignite discussion and pose challenges to traditional methods of sourcing research and education.”

Kevin Alexander
VP, Supply Chain
Marmon Manufacturing & Shop Repair Services.