Kelly Barner

Kelly Barner is the co-owner of Buyers Meeting Point, an online resource for procurement and purchasing professionals. Her unique perspective on supply management is based on her time as a practitioner, a consultant at a solution provider, and now as an independent thought leader. Kelly has led projects involving members of procurement, supplier, and purchasing teams and has practical skills in strategic sourcing program design and management, opportunity assessment, knowledge management, and custom taxonomy design. She earned her MBA from Babson College, a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from Simmons College, and a Bachelor of Arts in English and History from Clark University. In 2012 and 2013 Kelly was awarded a Provider 'Pro to Know' award by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine, and in 2013 she was also recognized as one of 28 "Top Female Supply Chain Executives."