ProcureCon Indirect 2017 (past event)
04 - 06 April, 2017
Park Plaza Amsterdam Airport
44 (0) 207 036 1309
Conference Day Three – Thursday 6 April 2017
08:00 - 09:00 Welcome coffee
09:00 - 09:05 Opening remarks - Letitia Thomas, Programme Director
09:05 - 09:10 Chair’s opening address and networking activity
09:10 - 09:50 Case study interactive – Change management: Driving Procurement development through a holistic and performance based framework in an organisationally changing environment to position procurement as an enabler
- How can the involvement of procurement create a sophistication and alliance between the function and the business?
- How to develop your team into commercial advisors and business partners
- What skills can procurement apply to assist the business create a commercial objective? How can you demonstrate the procurement capability to the business to drive the business model?
09:50 - 10:10 Digital procurement transformation: Building agility and value through a unified approach
10:10 - 11:00 Case study interactive – Ethical sourcing: How can you work with your suppliers to ensure they help rather than hinder your business sustainability and ethical goals?
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
20 minutes: Delegates will set up in round tables - each round table will discuss how to solve this challenge
- How can you approach suppliers and segment your supply base to understand who will be an innovative supplier for your business? Based on:
10 minutes: Feedback from each round table and conclusion from the leader
11:00 - 11:40 Morning networking break
11:40 - 12:20 Case Study Interactive: Realising the Profession’s Potential: How can procurement evolve to be positioned at the heart of the business
- Analytics: How to examine, use and understand data in order to use it effectively for your strategy
- How can you use data analytics as an enabler to broaden a traditional procurement function and endorse your business?
- How can data be managed to benefit the wider business?
- How can you differentiate which data is important for each line of business?
12:20 - 13:00 Case study interactive – Our customer journey story: How to take advantage of your team’s existing skills to position procurement within the customer relationship and influence top-line growth
- How can you adapt your KPIs to alter the way procurement delivers to the business?
- To what extent can procurement teams deliver sales to the business?
- Is it the responsibility of your procurement team to bring revenue to your business?
- In what ways can procurement focus more on delivery and less on cost saving?
- Is delivering revenue the future of procurement teams in a world of automation?
13:00 - 14:20 Networking lunch
14:20 - 14:30 Opening remarks from the chair
14:30 - 14:50 Opening presentation – How to work with suppliers on a global basis to optimise your contracts and enhance commercial agreements, project discounts and annual volume discounts
- How to maximize your supplier agreements across your business.
- How can the increasing use of technology change how you agree terms with your supplier?
- How can the implementation of global rate cards enhance commercial agreements, project discounts and annual volume discounts?
- How can suppliers help to extend agreed contracts across your ‘glocalised’ business?
14:50 - 03:30 All star panel – How can you a implement a ‘glocalised’ procurement model to collaborate with each of your local lines of business and quickly identify and fulfil requirements across your global business?
- How to maximize your supplier agreements across your business.
- How can the increasing use of technology change how you agree terms with your supplier?
- How can the implementation of global rate cards enhance commercial agreements, project discounts and annual volume discounts?
- How can suppliers help to extend agreed contracts across your ‘glocalised’ business?
