Building a Future-ready Vendor Management Function for Maximum Value

As outsourcing portfolios expand and supplier ecosystems grow more complex, the Vendor Management Organization (VMO) plays an increasingly critical and challenging role. Fragmented ownership, inconsistent governance, limited technology, and poor visibility continue to cause significant value leakage across contracts, performance, and innovation opportunities.

Join Everest Group for a practical, insight-driven webinar on how to build a future-ready VMO that maximizes value. We will share market trends and best practices, along with a clear blueprint for modernizing VMO structure, governance, and technology. Learn how leading organizations enhance supplier oversight, strengthen risk management, optimize costs, and drive innovation.

Whether creating a new VMO or transforming an existing one, this session will provide the frameworks and guidance needed to elevate vendor management into a strategic value engine-shifting from fragmented processes to a resilient, data-driven VMO built for today’s complexity and tomorrow’s opportunities.

What questions will the webinar answer for the participants?

• How to determine the optimal VMO structure (centralized, functional, or hybrid) and define clear roles across the VMO, procurement, and the business.
• How VMOs can maximize value realization by building more collaborative and high-performing supplier partnerships.
• How technology-automation, SRM tools, and AI can enable a more efficient, data-driven VMO.
• What measurable outcomes should organizations expect from high-performing, best-in-class VMOs.

Who should attend?

• Chief procurement officers
• Strategic sourcing and category leaders
• Direct/indirect sourcing heads
• Vendor and supplier management leaders/managers
• Procurement managers