ProcureCon Indirect 2017 (past event)
04 - 06 April, 2017
Park Plaza Amsterdam Airport
44 (0) 207 036 1309
Conference Day One – Tuesday 4 April 2017
08:00 - 08:55 Registration and welcome coffee
08:55 - 09:00 Opening remarks – Letitia Thomas, Programme Director
09:00 - 09:10 Chair’s opening address and business card exchange
09:10 - 09:30 Keynote presentation - How to use procurement category expertise and apply this knowledge to improve top-line growth
- How can you lead your procurement journey from pure cost savings to contributing to revenue growth?
- How can you use innovation to report on value, monitor and gain real-time visibility on category spend and cost savings for your business?
- How can category teams business partner with the lines of business in your company to influence revenue?
- What are the future trends on how your procurement team add value to your business?
09:30 - 10:10 Case study interactive – The rise of Robotic Process Automation: How can you use automation to drive your procurement operations forward and position your procurement team as an agile leadership function?
10 minutes from the leader:
- How to use automation to motivate and change your procurement function
- How can you use automation as an opportunity to develop your team and create ‘value experts’ who are positioned in the business as thought-leaders?
- How to automate transactional procurement to help create a fluid, agile and focused procurement function
- In what ways will automation redefine the procurement role and can you plan to ensure your procurement team is adding value to the business?
10:10 - 10:30 Keynote presentation – What are the technology disruptors for the next 5 years and how can you ensure procurement thrives in this environment to enhance your buying power?
10:30 - 11:10 Morning networking break
11:10 - 11:50 Case study interactive – How to create an improved strategy through digitalisation and cognitive procurement to ensure your team is viewed as a trusted advisor and enabler
10 minutes from the leader
20 minutes: Delegates will set up in round tables – each round table will discuss how to solve this challenge
10 minutes: Feedback from each round table and conclusion from the leader
- What does digitalisation mean specifically for procurement?
- What challenges does digitalisation bring to procurement?
- How can procurement evolve and what are the main focuses?
- How can the procurement team be viewed as a trusted advisor?
20 minutes: Delegates will set up in round tables – each round table will discuss how to solve this challenge
- How can you use innovative spend categorisation to business partner and influence internal stakeholders and external customers?
10 minutes: Feedback from each round table and conclusion from the leader
11:50 - 12:10 Our Story: Digitalising spend processes to increase visibility, control and compliance
Amber Bauer
Former CPOENGIE UK on behalf of Coupa
12:10 - 12:30 How can you ensure your procurement team is a forward thinking, value-add function to work alongside the growing need for RPA?
- How to contract for automation and cloud technology
- How do you work with your suppliers to implement a digitalised delivery model tailored to your business?
- How can cloud based technology help to create a cost competitive delivery model?
- How to effectively use automation and cloud based technology to increase procurement productivity
- How to optimise your relationship with cloud suppliers to enhance the future of your procurement operation
12:30 - 12:35 CIPS ProcureCon 2017 Awards Announcement
Cath Hill
Group Marketing DirectorCIPS
Networking lunch
12:35 - 13:45 Networking lunchPrivate Lunch
12:35 - 13:45 BOUYGUES ENERGIES & SERVICES WORKSHOP - by invitation only:
How to overcome the local and cultural risks and build sustainable partnerships in a multi-country Real Estate and Facilities Services outsourcing model
- How to overcome local and cultural risks when strategizing to outsource
- Implementing a successful Change Management strategy
- How to build sustainable partnerships
- Identifying key future challenges
TRACK A Delivering value to your business partners
13:45 - 13:50 Opening remarks from the chair
TRACK B eProcurement and Digitalising operations
13:45 - 13:50 Opening remarks from the chair
SYNERGY WORKSHOPS - Limited to 20 attendees
13:45 - 13:50 Financial Services risk management focus: How can you best source and manage your suppliers in a highly regulated industry?- What effects does working within a highly regulated industry have on procurement performance?
- How can you take into account regulatory requirements when sourcing or changing suppliers?
- What processes can be implemented to speed up the process of sourcing or changing supplier?
- What frameworks can be used to ensure you remain compliant?
CREATIVE BOARDROOMS Limited to 15 attendees CPOs & Global Heads of Procurement with $1 billion spen
13:45 - 13:50 Session 1 – How can you bring together your business functions, your procurement team and your suppliers to ensure everyone is working towards the same goal?- How to implement tactics and strategies to achieve senior executive alignment
- That are the main barriers to alignment and how can you challenge them?
- How to identify proven metrics and practices for alignment within your business
- What are the main lessons learned and what would be done differently next time?
TRACK A Delivering value to your business partners
13:50 - 14:30 Case study interactive – Transform to perform: How to win the hearts and minds of your business and build better relationships with your stakeholders to position procurement as a value-add function- How can you educate your business on the importance of quality of supplier/product over cost to increase value-add?
- How can you spend money where it is innovative and save where it is not?
- How can you partner with your suppliers to record and show real saving to your stakeholders?
- How can you ensure your procurement team becomes more responsible for the P&L of their business categories?
TRACK B eProcurement and Digitalising operations
13:50 - 14:30 Case study interactive – Harmonising the future of procurement: How can you embrace digitalisation to boost the operational productivity of your team and business?- How can you select the tools needed for your business?
- For which areas of spend is digitalisation possible?
- Can the use of digitalised procurement operations deliver transparent value to your business?
- Is digitalisation a cost competitive delivery model?
SYNERGY WORKSHOPS - Limited to 20 attendees
13:50 - 14:30 Session ContinuedCREATIVE BOARDROOMS Limited to 15 attendees CPOs & Global Heads of Procurement with $1 billion spen
13:50 - 14:30 Session ContinuedTRACK A Delivering value to your business partners
14:30 - 15:10 All star panel – How can you ensure transparency and visibility with your internal business partners to prove added value to your business?- How can you be a driver of your business’ goal or mantra?
- What does added-value mean to your business?
- How do you design a business strategy that procurement can implement and support?
- How to understand your consumer to understand your business
- How can you select the opportunities that will last, grow and gain momentum?
TRACK B eProcurement and Digitalising operations
14:30 - 15:10 All star panel – Embracing digitalisation: How can you use eProcurement tools as a key enabler to help your internal stakeholders differentiate your business and outshine your competition?- Tailoring automation: What does automation look like for your business?
- What eProcurement tools are right for your business?
- How to train your staff to maximize your eProcurement and digital technology investment
- How to ensure you are the front runner – using automaton as a key enabler and differentiating yourself from your competitors
SYNERGY WORKSHOPS - Limited to 20 attendees
14:30 - 15:10 Session ContinuedCREATIVE BOARDROOMS Limited to 15 attendees CPOs & Global Heads of Procurement with $1 billion spen
14:30 - 15:10 Session Continued15:10 - 15:50 Afternoon networking break
TRACK A Delivering value to your business partners
15:50 - 16:10 Efficiently using contextualised benchmarking to get the best value from your supplier relationships- How an understanding of Total Cost of Ownership can benefit your outsourced procurement functions
- How to take an outsourced relationship from tactical cost reduction exercise to strategic value proposition
- How to avoid cutting corners which may adversely impact your organisation
TRACK A Delivering value to your business partners
15:50 - 16:10 How to use eProcurement and digitalised procurement operations tools to deliver transparent value to your business
SYNERGY WORKSHOPS - Limited to 20 attendees
15:50 - 16:10 How to manage change using emotional neuroscience to achieve results and further strengthen business relationships- How can emotional relationships strengthen and develop your business relationships?
- How to redefine relationships using neurological ideas
CREATIVE BOARDROOMS Limited to 15 attendees CPOs & Global Heads of Procurement with $1 billion spen
15:50 - 16:10 Session 2 – How can you strategise your spend to remove the fragmentation and lack of visibility?- How can you best achieve visibility around your spend?
- How can spend visibility cost-save long term?
- How can a mixture of suppler relationships (strategic, tactical, spot-buy) improve your teams’ spend and supplier management?
- How can you implement cross-category to improve fragmented spend
TRACK A Delivering value to your business partners
16:10 - 17:10 Wine and Beer round tables: Industry specific. What are the main procurement challenges within your industry and how can you overcome them?
Speakers:
Pieter Swarts CPO KPN
Marc Rajal Head of Procurement Transformation Deloitte
Gareth Mawdesley Head of Procurement NFU Mutual
Marco Stenvert CPO Wolters Kluwer
Tim Brennan Head of Procurement Marks & Spencer
Christoph Quick-Timmerhaus Head of International Procurement RWE
Tim Snow Head of Procurement, Debenhams Bernd Maron CPO GFK
Claudia Unger Founder (former Director of Research and Intelligence BCD Travel) Claudia Unger Limited
Pieter Swarts CPO KPN
Marc Rajal Head of Procurement Transformation Deloitte
Gareth Mawdesley Head of Procurement NFU Mutual
Marco Stenvert CPO Wolters Kluwer
Tim Brennan Head of Procurement Marks & Spencer
Christoph Quick-Timmerhaus Head of International Procurement RWE
Tim Snow Head of Procurement, Debenhams Bernd Maron CPO GFK
Claudia Unger Founder (former Director of Research and Intelligence BCD Travel) Claudia Unger Limited
This interactive session provides the opportunity to discuss your most pressing challenge with your peers in a small, industry specific group of 10. Don’t miss this fantastic chance to solve your issues and make important new contacts with procurement professionals from your industry!
Round table 1: Financial Services & Insurance – Gareth Mawdesley, Head of Procurement, NFU Mutual & Julian Herbert, Vice President, Everest Group
Round table 2: Utilities/Energy – Christoph Quick-Timmerhaus, Head of International Procurement, RWE
Round table 3: Travel – Claudia Unger, Founder, Claudia Unger Limited (ex Director of Research and Intelligence BCD Travel)
Round table 4: Consultants – Marc Rajal, Head of Procurement Transformation, Deloitte
Round table 5: Technology – Marco Stenvert, CPO, Wolters Kluwer
Round table 6: Telecoms – Pieter Swarts, CPO, KPN
Round table 7: Logistics/Distribution
Round table 8: Publishing/Media
Round table 9: Retail – Tim Brennan, Head of Procurement, Marks & Spencer & Tim Snow, Head of Procurement, Debenhams
Claudia Unger Limited
Round table 1: Financial Services & Insurance – Gareth Mawdesley, Head of Procurement, NFU Mutual & Julian Herbert, Vice President, Everest Group
Round table 2: Utilities/Energy – Christoph Quick-Timmerhaus, Head of International Procurement, RWE
Round table 3: Travel – Claudia Unger, Founder, Claudia Unger Limited (ex Director of Research and Intelligence BCD Travel)
Round table 4: Consultants – Marc Rajal, Head of Procurement Transformation, Deloitte
Round table 5: Technology – Marco Stenvert, CPO, Wolters Kluwer
Round table 6: Telecoms – Pieter Swarts, CPO, KPN
Round table 7: Logistics/Distribution
Round table 8: Publishing/Media
Round table 9: Retail – Tim Brennan, Head of Procurement, Marks & Spencer & Tim Snow, Head of Procurement, Debenhams
Claudia Unger
Founder (former Director of Research and Intelligence BCD Travel)Claudia Unger Limited
SYNERGY WORKSHOPS - Limited to 20 attendees
16:10 - 17:10 Sesion ContinuedCREATIVE BOARDROOMS Limited to 15 attendees CPOs & Global Heads of Procurement with $1 billion spen
16:10 - 17:10 Sesion Continued17:10 - 17:15 Transit time
17:15 - 18:00 Inspirational Guest Speaker – How to use emotion in business relationships to achieve operational excellence and drive the innovation agenda
18:00 - 23:59 Networking Reception
Don’t miss this opportunity for you to relax, discuss challenges, exchange ideas and make new contacts in an informal setting!