Join our upcoming webinar and learn how procurement teams are finding new suppliers, managing risk, using AI and making better sourcing decisions.

Procurement teams are being asked to navigate more complexity than ever before: shifting trade policies, supplier concentration, cost pressure, geopolitical uncertainty and increasingly fragile supply chains.

The challenge is knowing where your risks are, where your alternatives are and what signals to watch before disruption hits - all while making decisions with speed, clarity, and confidence. 

Join Remer Lane (COO Gene Morris Company), a longtime ImportGenius customer, and Philip Preville for a candid discussion about what’s working, what he’s learned and how he’s using data and technology to make better decisions.

What you’ll learn:

• How leading teams find and evaluate alternative suppliers before they urgently need them
• How to assess supplier capacity, concentration, relationships and potential risk
• What procurement leaders are doing to improve supply-chain resilience without simply adding cost
• Where AI and external data are actually useful today — and where they aren’t
• How shipment and competitor intelligence can reveal new sourcing opportunities, supplier shifts and changing market dynamics
• What separates procurement teams that are primarily reacting to disruption from those building a more proactive sourcing strategy

The discussion builds on ImportGenius’ Procurement Leader’s Scorecard, which examines four areas increasingly shaping procurement performance:

Geopolitical exposure · Supply-chain resilience · Data & AI · Competitive advantage

Expect real examples, lessons learned and practical approaches you can bring back to your own procurement organization.

Who is Remer Lane?

Remer Y. Lane is an international business executive with more than three decades of leadership experience in agribusiness, food processing, global trade, investment strategy, and corporate transformation.

Throughout his career, he has led businesses and strategic initiatives in more than 80 countries across North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Mr. Lane has served in senior roles for organizations ranging from entrepreneurial ventures to multinational corporations and development institutions. He has built and restructured businesses, executed growth strategies, managed complex international supply chains, and created partnerships among governments, investors, and private enterprises.

As CEO of Sims Foods, he led a successful turnaround that increased revenue by 64 percent, reduced cost of goods by 40 percent, and tripled company valuation. His international trade and development initiatives have generated more than $700 million in export growth and transformed regional industries through strategic planning and market-driven implementation. Mr. Lane’s expertise includes his development with Booz Allen Hamilton of the Ag/Trade Stat Competitiveness Platform in addition to strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain management, international expansion, risk management, and organizational transformation.

He has extensive government and board-level experience advising US Departments, Foreign Ministries, companies, and institutions on strategy, competitiveness, market development, investment opportunities, and global business operations.