Forget business as usual - we think it can be extraordinary
Inspiring and empowering supply management leaders
We believe supply management has the power to transform businesses, economies, and lives. Our job is to empower you and advance the profession. We take it seriously.
Regardless of your industry or strategic starting point, we will help you create connections, have important conversations, gather best practices, and elevate your organization and your team. And our metrics, best practices, insights, and network are completely sales-free and unbiased.
EXPLORATION
We explore the frontiers & enable your vision
Count on CAPS for unbiased, sales-free knowledge & insights that prepare you for the future of supply management.
INSPIRATION
Best practices and strategies for your team
We're your best source of best practices, KPIs, and research with 30+ years of unbiased thought leadership.
CONNECTION
A powerful network of leaders forging forth
Connect with other supply management leaders for candid conversation and uninhibited collaboration.
ADVANCEMENT
Take all levels of your SM organization to new heights
Empower your team and align to your organization with proven strategies, customized data, models, and playbooks.
Biweekly infographics of timely & compelling metrics
CAPS Stats
Every other week, CAPS releases a new infographic featuring key supply management metrics from one of our recent benchmarking reports. Stay in the loop with our infographics and check out the CAPS Blog, sign up for the newsletter, or follow us on social.
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In the words of our members...
Greg Muñoz
VP, Global Procurement
Sonoco Products Company
“I am a firm believer that CAPS provides CPO’s a forum that enables collaboration with peers across many different industries and business profiles to exchange ideas about procurement, technology, and talent strategy. The organization also does an excellent job of infusing leading edge research topics providing CPOs with a strategic compass, giving a path for building an organization ready to succeed in the future. While all of these benefits are enticing, what stands out to me is that CAPS provides this forum without third-party organization’s participation that requires listening to sales presentations, so the sessions are highly productive.”
“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
VP, Sourcing & Procurement
FedEx Corporation
Tom Lake
Senior Vice President
Honda North America
“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.”
“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
James L. Ferrell, Jr.
Vice President, Supply Chain Management
Plains All American Pipeline
“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.”
“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
Kevin Alexander
Vice President, Supply Chain
Marmon Rail
“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.”
CAPS is a non-profit research center at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, established in 1986 in partnership with Institute for Supply Management.
