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Registration Opens |
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Chairman's Introduction |
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Beyond the Obvious
Jean-Francois Baril, SVP Sourcing & Procurement,
Nokia Corporation
In our search for Procurement Excellence, it becomes more evident everyday the right balance of management and leadership skills are critical success factors. Jean-Francois Baril will develop on how a smart combination of “Brain-Heart-Hands Guts” brings a tremendous boost in the creation of cooperation and collaboration with partners and also inside your own company. This new dimension in leadership drives ‘passion’ and ‘trust’.
Basics in Sourcing and Procurement are a given and expected to be well managed by CEO’s and CFO’s. However, today’s environment means Sourcing and Procurement organisations are now requested to move further on in the value chain and strategic processes.
In his presentation Mr Baril will discuss:
- How best-in-class organisations are able to integrate the Outside world to the Inside of their company.
- How best-in-class organisations play a fundamental role in the transformation of their companies through deep cooperation.
- Sourcing and Procurement is fundamental in the core strategy of any corporation. How do we make sure we capture this opportunity?
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Effective processes and cost reductions by Corporate
Procurement
Dr. Ulrich Piepel, CPO,
RWE Group
RWE has established a modern and innovative approach for
procurement. A major share of RWE Group’s procurement volume
is now centralised in a Shared Service Center, also housing the
governance function for the total procurement volume of the
group. After several years in place the results are obvious with
quality of procurement improving substantially and savings being
more than expected.
Dr. Piepel will present around the following:
- Procurement and group wide governance in a Shared
Service Center.
- Group wide transparency around all procurement activities
through a Corporate Procurement portal.
- Strategic tools for the realisation of savings potentials.
- Efficient processes as a basis for quality and savings.
- Measurement of savings and controlling with KPI’s.
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NETWORKING BREAK |
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Leading through innovation: Purchasing makes
the difference
Josip Tomasevic, Head of Corporate Purchasing,
CLAAS Group
CLAAS is an international producer of agricultural machinery and
one of the top performers within the AG business. As a single
European player within a highly globalised and consolidated
industry, the brand CLAAS stands for technology leadership.
With the acquisition of the tractor business from Renault
Agriculture, the Purchasing department achieved special
attention. A new purchasing organisation was implemented
to gain synergy and then to build up a group wide and crossfunctional organisation, for the management of technologies.
Josip Tomasevic will demonstrate how CLAAS Purchasing
managed to integrate top system suppliers at an early stage
within the development process to drive innovation ahead of its
competitors and to increase the technological leadership position
CLAAS enjoys.
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Take the mystery of innovation
Corey Billington, Professor of Procurement & Operations
Management,
IMD Business School
Firms like Apple and Procter & Gamble use knowledge brokering
- using old ideas as raw materials for new ideas in wholly different
context - to innovate continuously, a vital competence for a firm.
In his presentation Dr Billington will:
- explain knowledge brokering and how these principles are
expanding procurement’s contribution to any firm’s
innovation rate.
- discuss the emergence of “seeker-solver” networks and how
they will enable procurement organisations to expand
their contribution.
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NETWORKING LUNCH |
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SESSION A
Best Practice
Risk strategies in procurement
Dr. Lars Immerthal, Project Manager,
BrainNet Management Consultants GmbH.
Recent years have been turbulent for procurement and supply chain managers.
Against the sweeping backdrop of globalisation, geopolitical risks, global demand for regulations, M&A’s, outsourcing and supply risks, not to mention the associated price increases in
commodity and energy markets, companies and executives are facing greater uncertainties and
challenges in their professional lives.
So how are procurement leaders approaching these challenges and what strategies should
they adopt in the future?
In this presentation, BrainNet will announce the results of a recent pan-European study run
in association with the European Leaders In Procurement Network. The findings will discuss the views of 200 CPO’s and procurement leaders
against the following themes:
- Risk management strategies.
- Sourcing governance and compliance.
- Supplier risk.
- Price changes and financial hedging.
- Best cost country sourcing / global sourcing.
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SESSION D
Case Study
How the recent evolution in procurement is dealing with Spend Management
Dr. Heinz Schaeffer, Director Procurement,
Axa Group
In his presentation, Heinz will outline how to approach Spend Management. He will discuss its context and questions for the future.
Developing this theme he will discuss the challenges procurement is facing and how these can be answered.
Rounding off the debate, Heinz will discuss the solutions needed, avoiding the obvious technical
issues and looking at it from a principle-based approach which needs the support, the
investment and the commitment of the whole procurement team.
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SESSION G
Knowledge Group Roundtable
Talent development and the changing role of procurement
Facilitators:
Christopher Barrat,
Chair & Sammy Rashed,
Head of Sourcing - PH Region Europe,
Novartis
Effective talent management is a critical business goal for all leading organisations.
The fast-paced development of purchasing as a crucial lever for competitive advantage has meant the ‘war for procurement talent’ is as intense as it has ever been.
This interactive roundtable discussion will focus
on techniques and best practice for:
- Attracting new talent, internally and externally.
- Coordinating global recruitment standards.
- Using innovative assessment and development techniques to find the ‘right skills’ for the ‘right job’.
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CHANGEOVER |
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14:25 |
SESSION B
Best Practice / Case Study
Driving excellence through Value targeting, tracking and budget integration
Kris Timmermans, Senior Executive,
Accenture Global Supply Chain Service Line
One of the most daunting challenges in purchasing is without a doubt “the Bermuda
triangle of savings measurement”;
Purchasing claims huge savings, Finance can not see them in the P&L or Balance Sheet and the Divisions/Users don’t want their budgets to be adjusted.
In this case study, we cover how FCI, a leading global company manufacturer of electronic connectors, designed and implemented a set of new capabilities for Value targeting, Value tracking and Budget integration.
Value targeting consists of 2 layers of planning: 3 yearly strategic planning integrated
with the corporate plan, and yearly purchasing action planning. Outcomes are cross functional sourcing and supplier development initiatives, agreed upon with category managers, divisions and sites.
Value tracking consists of the careful tracking of the value delivered by initiatives. Specific
guidelines, tools, and responsibilities have been
implemented to be able to do this.
Budget integration focuses on integrating planning and tracking processes in purchasing
with budgeting practices in such a way that the impact of purchasing can be measured not just from an overall value point of view but also P&L and balance sheet.
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SESSION E
Case Study
Procurement’s new responsibility to Climate Change
David Hollingsworth, Head of Procurement Categories, BSkyB, & Jonathan Shopley,Chief Executive,
CarbonNeutral
Climate change and corporate responsibility are being intrinsically linked as the world faces one of its most critical challenges.
As the pressure to ‘go green’ increases, senior executives are looking towards the supply chain, and in particular procurement to assist in the delivery of corporate climate change programmes.
Since 2006 BSkyB has been a forerunner in delivering a full climate change programme
and was recently named in the Global 100 Sustainable Corporations list as a Sunday Times.
“Company that Counts.” Working with The CarbonNeutral Company, they took the business CarbonNeutral® in 2006.
In the presentation, David and Jonathan will discuss:
- Why climate change is relevant to procurement.
- How Sky has become the world’s first CarbonNeutral media company.
- How organisations can approach this important initiative.
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SESSION H
Knowledge Group Roundtable
Procurement Outsourcing
– The business case
Facilitators: Christopher Barrat and Guy Strafford, Client Services Director, buyingTeam
With the increased focus on cost and compliance, the procurement function has
been elevated to a strategic component of value creation and a rich source of competitive
advantage. To achieve this, rather than creating a world class procurement capability in-house, some companies have simply outsourced it.
This interactive roundtable discussion will debate the realities and myths including:
- To outsource or not to outsource?
- What ‘parts’ to outsource.
- Making it work and success measurement.
- Best practices and real life examples.
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CHANGEOVER |
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SESSION C
Best Practice
Actionable Spend Analysis: From unstructured spend data to savings
Anurag Dixit, Marketing Director, Zycus
Spend Analysis as a concept is not new to global 2000 companies any more. Many of them have solutions in place and many others are planning to implement such solutions. In between all the hype, there is still a lot that those organisations
need to do to realise the full value from Spend Analysis and make it actionable.
In this presentation Anurag will share:
- The common pitfalls that restrict the value derived from spend analysis.
- Key processes enabling organisations to discover more saving opportunities and
improve compliance.
- Metrics medium and large organisations can adopt from other successful implementations
like CRM.
- Common Spend Analysis adoption challenges and how best in class organisations deal
with them.
- Best practice case studies from Europe.
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SESSION F
Case Study
CSR: From being a fashionable initiative to the way we do things
Nirmal Kotecha, Alliance Director and Head of Supply Chain Management, Anglian
Water Services
Organisations have for some time been accused of jumping on the latest bandwagon and CSR could easily fall into the trap of becoming an over-hyped acronym with little substance underneath.
Where Procurement led CSR initiatives are in place, there is a risk that these are not aligned
with the wider corporate response or indeed with the wider sector.
In this presentation, Nirmal will share the experiences of Anglian Water - specifically the journey toward aligning the organisation, its supply chain and the wider industry sector. He will also raise the question of whether CSR is positioned within organisations as an initiative or an embedded process i.e. as “the way we do
things here…”
The presentation will help executives:
- Understand and shape the corporate agenda
through Supply Chain Management.
- Create alignment in:
• Corporate Strategy
• Capital Investment Strategy
• Commercial Models
• Procurement Process
• Supply Chain Response
• Supplier Relationship Management
- Embed in their day-jobs.
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SESSION I
Best Practice
Beyond the hype: Business to business commerce in the ‘Internet Age’
Alain Andreoli, President of the Executive
Board, Chief Executive Officer, cc-hubwoo
Over the last ten years the rise of the Internet has dramatically changed the way people live
and work. In the consumer market, such players as Amazon, eBay and Yahoo have become symbols of this new era. By contrast, adoption has been more gradual in the Enterprise space.
Beyond the hype of the late 90s when hundreds of eMarketplaces were launched, we are now in the decade of the “Business Internet”, where
companies of all sizes, around the world, in all industries, reach new levels of efficiency by
harnessing the power of online collaboration.
In his presentation, Mr. Andreoli, will address the following points:
- Key trends in enterprise IT: The ERP and the Internet.
- Buyer - Supplier collaboration: the new efficiency frontier.
- Current challenges of online B to B commerce.
- A few trends for the future. |
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REFRESHMENT AND CHANGE BREAK |
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