Jabil: Optimising Supplier Relationships for Success
Throughout 2025, the major supply chain disruption and trade volatility demonstrated the need for building strong supplier relationships and developing business resilience.
By developing cost control and efficiency through close collaboration with suppliers, businesses are seeing the benefits of developing stronger communication with their supply chains.
Jabil, experts in engineering, supply chain and manufacturing solutions, help businesses undergo transformation to ensure they can see business success alongside sustainable operations.
Building resilience during turbulence
Jabil is a trusted partner to some of the world's leading brands, offering engineering, supply chain and manufacturing solutions to ensure business success. Its global team uses decades of experience in order to offer solutions across almost every industry. Its integrated solutions are offered across the product lifecycle and can be customised to the needs of each business.
As global volatility has grown in recent years, companies have started to understand the need for building resilience across their supply chains. With its tailored supply chain management solutions, Jabil helps brands stay one step ahead of disruption, allowing them to remain competitive.
Jabil offers supply chain, procurement and logistics processes, investment in talent and the knowledge of how to apply the right technologies when they are most needed. It also provides real-time visibility and data-driven insights across the global supply chain, allowing for strong and transparent relationships with suppliers around the world.
Through these insights, it helps businesses make strong, informed decisions and manage risk at the same time.
Growing procurement capabilities
Jabil understands that a supplier network is one of a company's most valuable assets, holding its own network of more than 38,000 suppliers. As a company, it manages more than US$25bn in procurement spend annually, providing it with a significant amount of resources, which it gives back to its clients.
Jabil's customers gain access to this expansive network, alongside AI-driven forecasting, in order to mitigate risk and have full transparency across reliable suppliers.
The company also has a range of procurement services to streamline source-to-pray processes, improve supplier management and drive cost leadership. Its end-to-end solutions are built to be comprehensive and accessible.
Its services include:
- Cost optimisation - through Jabil's range of solutions and programmes, businesses can reduce costs
- Supplier management - ensure compliance, reliability and quality by building strong supplier relationships
- Risk mitigation - enhance supply chain resilience by proactively considering procurement risks
- Spend visibility and analytics - optimise procurement technologies that increase decision-making capabilities and improve spend visibility
- Scalability - adapt procurement strategies as markets shifts
Optimising procurement strategy
Experts in procurement strategy, Jabil will be leading a panel at Procurement & Supply Chain LIVE: The US Summit, entitled 'The Indirect Procurement Playbook'. The panel, which takes place on April 22nd, at 2:15pm, will explore how businesses can optimise their indirect spend and supplier relationships.
During this event, leaders will share insights on cost control, process efficiency and creating value beyond direct procurement. This will help businesses transform their supply chains, enabling better relationships throughout as well as cost savings and profit gains.
Kurt Shafer, Senior Director of Global Procurement at Jabil, will be speaking on the panel, sharing his insights on procurement excellence. He has more than 10 years of global experience in strategic sourcing, procurement and sales and operations planning.
Throughout his career, Kurt has focussed on maximising cost and operational efficiencies, leading transformative procurement strategies and helping Jabil experience cost savings and business success.
On the event, Kurt says: "I'm looking forward to speaking at P&SC Live Chicago because The Indirect Procurement Playbook panel offers the perfect platform to share practical, experience-led insights with leaders who are shaping the future of procurement."
Procurement & Supply Chain LIVE: The US Summit
Procurement & Supply Chain LIVE: The US Summit takes place April 21-22, bringing together senior procurement and supply chain leaders focused on innovation, strategy and transformation in their organisations. Co-located with Sustainability LIVE: The US Summit, the event provides a comprehensive view of procurement and supply chain’s evolving role in driving business value and sustainability.
It will also feature the inaugural US awards, which will be presented during a black-tie gala dinner at Navy Pier, uniting the leaders driving procurement and supply chain excellence across the US and Canada.
The awards ceremony will take place at following Day 1 of the US Summit.
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Kurt Shafer
Senior Director - Global Procurement
