Thank you for trusting CAPS Research to provide your company with insight and thought-leadership that inspires your strategic supply management initiatives.
In addition to the member benefits you are already familiar with, we would like to remind you of a few member tools that can help you be more strategic and visionary in your own practice.
The CAPS difference
Unrivaled membership benefits
As a B2B nonprofit research center, our goal is to help you reach or surpass your strategic goals and advance the profession. In the following ways, CAPS gives you more value for your dollar:
Explore our library of research, benchmarking and event reports.
Your entire SM team has full access to the CAPS Library where we house more than 1,200 benchmarking, research, and event documents.
Fuel our research agenda for the coming year.
You receive invitations to our annual Research Pipeline event where you help identify topics of emerging importance in supply management to ensure our research is relevant and useful to your organization.
Premier: 3 pipeline invitations
Preferred: 1 pipeline invitation
Benchmarking
Key metrics for where you are now and where you want to be
Access unlimited custom breakouts of the benchmarking reports in our Library. Use our wide range of metrics to see how you stack up.
Gather primary feedback directly from other top companies. CAPS will facilitate a teleconference with you and other relevant member companies to get the information that will benefit you today.
Request short custom benchmarking topics. Have a key question? We’ll collect the data and find the answers you are looking for.
Up to 3 short topics
1 short topic
Find out how your suppliers align with your strategic initiatives. For an additional fee, CAPS will facilitate a custom survey of up to 1,000 of your suppliers, to learn how they view you as a customer of choice.
$8,000 add'l
$10,000 add'l
Events
Where leading edge research and benchmarking come to life
Join us for highly-engaging events with other thought leaders in supply management. You receive exclusive invitations to our annual events, where you can connect with supply management leaders from other leading companies.
In addition to our CPO and Supply Management Roundtables, we have Critical Issue Exchanges (6-10 per year) and industry groups.
1 complimentary seat for CPO Roundtable
2 complimentary seats for your choice of Supply Management Roundtables (North America, Europe or Asia)
1 complimentary seat for CPO Roundtable
Registration fee applies for Supply Management Roundtables (North America, Europe or Asia)
Tap the knowledge of global supply management leaders
Strategy-boosting, peer-to-peer events
At CAPS networking events, our research and benchmarking come to life – you can ask questions and get answers, explore best practices and new strategies, and tap the expertise of the leaders in the room. All our events are sales-free, consultant-free, and bias-free. They include:
CAPS was established in 1986 as a partnership between our strategic industry partners,
the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and Institute for Supply Management.
Explore our library of research, benchmarking and event reports. Your entire SM team has full access to the CAPS Library where we house more than 1,200 benchmarking, research, and event documents.
Fuel our research agenda for the coming year. You receive invitations to our annual Research Pipeline event where you help identify topics of emerging importance in supply management to ensure our research is relevant and useful to your organization.
3 pipeline invitations
2 pipeline invitations