Buyers Meeting Point

kelly barner owns, manages, and edits buyers meeting point. she has a unique perspective on procurement from the numerous roles she has held during her 15 years in procurement. kelly worked for ahold usa (parent company of grocery chains stop & shop, hannaford, giant landover, and more) on their not for resale sourcing team, specializing in systems implementation and hired services category sourcing. she spent three years as the associate director of consulting services at emptoris before it was acquired by ibm in 2011. for the last seven years she has covered procurement news, events, publications, solutions, trends, and relevant economics at buyers meeting point. buyers meeting point provides the procurement industry with an events calendar, blog, active social media network, and podcast, all of which are trusted sources of information for practitioners and solution providers alike. kelly has several regular columns throughout the industry, and in the summer of 2016 was appointed to