Data Science in Supply Management - Roundtable discussion

Tonight Source One's Senior Data Scientist, James Patounas, joins a panel of supply chain management professionals for ISM-Philadelphia's Share Your Supply Chain Experience Roundtable. Together, panel members will share their unique experience in the supply chain field, and offer insight into the various career paths available. Happening at Temple University, the event kicks off at 5:30 PM with networking opportunities, followed by dinner and the roundtable discussion.

Patounas offers a unique perspective on the career path opportunities within supply chain management. As a data scientist, Patounas is helping to shape the future of supply and spend management for Source One and its clients. In his work at Source One, Patounas works to collect, process, and organize spend data in a way that enables proactive management, and improved decision making capabilities. As the lead architect behind Source One's spend analysis as a service web platform, www.SpendConsultant.com, Patounas played an influential role in developing the taxonomy and algorithms used to make Spend Consultant an easy-to-use, procurement focused tool. Tonight, he'll share insight into how the application of data science is impacting the supply management industry and their career opportunities available in this growing practice.