ProcureCon Connect USA 2025

June 09 - 10, 2025

Rancho Bernardo Inn, San Diego, CA

Heidi Humphries

Senior Director, Business Development Amicus Spend Management

Heidi joined Amicus in 2016 and is responsible for helping to define and lead the growth strategy for both new and existing customers across all industries globally. In this role, Heidi leads a sales team that works to understand the needs of large organizations and supply chain trends in order to develop and communicate the value proposition of Amicus's Source-to-Pay and Tail Spend services. Heidi has held previous similar roles within Amicus including Global Sales Executive and Director of Global Sales and Marketing. Prior to joining Amicus, Heidi worked for xpedx (now Veritiv) in several roles including Outside Sales and Group Price Manager. In this last role, Heidi helped to develop and implement a new distributor pricing model in the U.S.

Day 1: Transforming Your Procurement Organization

3:40 PM PRESENTATION: Controlling Tail Spend Before It Impedes Strategic Spend

Tail spend is difficult to handle as it consists of purchases and maverick spend that often flies under the radar. In most cases this means 20% of your spend is spread across near 80% of your vendors. By managing this fragmented spend you can reduce cost and vendor complexity while aligning your team on better spending practices moving forward. Learn innovative ways of 

 

  • Identifying your tail spend threshold to classify what is strategic spend and what isn’t 
  • Categorizing fragmented purchases and suppliers to better identify areas in need of attention 
  • Standardizing digital tools and purchasing practices where possible to ensure your capturing spend accurately 
  • Automating small purchases, and approval workflows to lighten administrative work 
  • Focusing on continuous improvement with each supplier relationship to reduce future difficulty 

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Heidi.

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