ProcureCon Indirect 2017 (past event)
04 - 06 April, 2017
Park Plaza Amsterdam Airport
44 (0) 207 036 1309
Conference Day Two – Wednesday 5 April 2017
08:00 - 09:00 Welcome coffee
09:00 - 09:10 Opening remarks – Letitia Thomas, Programme Director
09:10 - 09:20 Chair’s opening address and networking activity
09:20 - 09:40 Opening keynote: M&A – How can you develop a Procurement offering to support the business with new acquisitions
- How to position your procurement team as a partner to the business to promote and deliver embedding acquired businesses
- How can procurement promote the delivery of M&A to the business to impact top-line growth?
- How can you show your business procurement is skilled to support their line of business and enhance M&A objectives?
09:40 - 10:20 Case study interactive – A successful M&A story: Driving procurement synergies focus on indirect
10 minutes from the leader:
10 minutes: Feedback from each round table and conclusion from the leader
- How can procurement assist with M&A?
- How can growing by acquisition enhance your business strategy and help increase profit?
- How to successfully embed practices into your business
- What are the challenges embedding practices into acquired companies, especially in indirect spend?
10 minutes: Feedback from each round table and conclusion from the leader
10:20 - 11:00 Morning networking break
11:00 - 23:40 Case Study Interactive: How to assess your organisational readiness and need for a Total Workforce Management solution to generate cost saving and impact top-line growth
- How to asses the maturity of your organisation against readiness for change and Total Workforce Management
- How to set your programme up for success – what are the common challenges and how do you overcome them?
- The importance of scoping out growth & cost opportunities – scalpel vs. sledgehammer
- How can you create the right strategic model for YOUR organisation?
23:40 - 12:00 How to align and optimize your procurement strategy to influence and impact the top line growth of your business
12:00 - 12:20 Keynote interview: How can you organise your spend strategy to optimise cost saving and supplier payment processes?
Stéphanie Laroque
VP, Global Client Group, Continental EuropeAmerican Express Global Commercial Payments
12:20 - 13:20 Mimosa round tables – How can you develop your procurement strategy in specific spend categories to influence top-line growth?
Speakers:
Kaushik Yathindra Procurement Analytics HSBC
Frederik Meilby Viuf Rasmussen Global Category Manager PFA Pension
Esther Haaksman CPO Unit4
Michael Pearson Group Head of Procurement Aspen Group
Katrina Hutchinson-O’Neill Head of Resourcing and Workforce Planning Nationwide
Mike Lunt Senior Sales Director Technology GEP (invite only)
Kaushik Yathindra Procurement Analytics HSBC
Frederik Meilby Viuf Rasmussen Global Category Manager PFA Pension
Esther Haaksman CPO Unit4
Michael Pearson Group Head of Procurement Aspen Group
Katrina Hutchinson-O’Neill Head of Resourcing and Workforce Planning Nationwide
Mike Lunt Senior Sales Director Technology GEP (invite only)
Round table 1: IT Kaushik Yathindra, Procurement Analytics, HSBC
Round table 2: Facilities Management - Frederik Meilby Viuf Rasmussen, Category Manager, PFA
Round table 3: Travel Esther Haaksman, CPO, Unit 4,
Round table 4: Professional Services/Legal - Michael Pearson, Group Head of Procurement, Aspen Group
Round table 5: HR/Contingent Workforce - Katrina Hutchinson-O’Neill, Head of Resourcing and Workforce Planning, Nationwide
Round table 6: Digital Procurement Transformation- Mike Lunt, Senior Sales Director Technology, GEP (invite only)
Round table 7: Marketing
Round table 8: MRO/CapEx
13:20 - 14:30 Networking lunch
TRACK A – Rethinking spend segmentation and category management
14:30 - 14:40 Opening remarks from the chair
TRACK B – Mastering supplier management & mitigating risk
14:30 - 14:40 Opening remarks from the chair
SYNERGY WORKSHOPS - Limited to 20 attendees
14:30 - 14:40 Women in Procurement Prosecco ‘Afternoon Tea’ Boardroom: How to empower your procurement team to become business leaders Procurement practitioner only
TRACK A – Rethinking spend segmentation and category management
14:40 - 15:00 Opening presentation – How to create a leveraged commodity and market combination to outperform value
TRACK A – Rethinking spend segmentation and category management
14:40 - 15:00 Opening presentation: Preparing you data for an era of digital business: is cloud the right decision for you?
SYNERGY WORKSHOPS - Limited to 20 attendees
14:40 - 15:00 Session continuedTRACK A – Rethinking spend segmentation and category management
15:00 - 15:40 All star panel – How can you improve your cross-category collaboration with your internal team and supplier’s to enhance negotiated contractual agreements and your stakeholder’s requirements?
TRACK B – Mastering supplier management & mitigating risk
15:00 - 15:40 All star panel – How can you solidify and enhance your supplier relationships to mitigate risk and create the right buying opportunities for your business?
SYNERGY WORKSHOPS - Limited to 20 attendees
15:00 - 15:40 Session continued15:40 - 16:20 Afternoon networking break
TRACK A – Rethinking spend segmentation and category management
16:20 - 17:00 Case study Interactive– How to redefine the future role of your Category Manager using Cognitive Procurement to promote a forward-thinking, ambitious procurement strategy
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
- Digitalisation – how to ensure your procurement team remains ambitious within a ‘one way ticket’ to automation
- ‘The Digital Supply Chain Management Equation’ – how can you team work with and enhance technology?
- Embracing ‘self-disrupting’ – how to proactively impose a change in your procurement team
20 minutes: Delegates will set up in round tables – each round table will discuss how to solve this challenge:
- What does the future of category management look like in a world of cognitive procurement focus?
10 minutes: Feedback from each round table and conclusion from the leader
TRACK B – Mastering supplier management & mitigating risk
16:20 - 17:00 Case study interactive – How to use score-carding to prioritise value and best practice when working with your suppliers
SYNERGY WORKSHOPS - Limited to 20 attendees
16:20 - 17:00 Optimising your P2P strategy: How to understand the supplier landscape, prioritise what drives a successful business case and avoid key pitfalls- Outlining the background and programme scope – why take the decision to implement a P2P strategy?
- How to implement and follow your process
- How to develop your business case
- How to engage your business
- How to understand supplier engagement
- What are the key learnings and watch outs for those looking to implement a P2P strategy
TRACK A – Rethinking spend segmentation and category management
17:00 - 05:40 Case study interactive – How can you implement a business line that goes beyond vendor segmentation and uses category management to align procurement and your business?
10 minutes from the leader:
20 minutes: Delegates will set up in round tables – each round table will discuss how to solve this challenge:
- To what extent does a ‘deep category management approach’ enhance business relationships?
- How does category management represent the lines of business?
- To what extent does technology blur the lines of category management?
20 minutes: Delegates will set up in round tables – each round table will discuss how to solve this challenge:
- Should you procurement professionals be aligned as an extension of the lines of business?
TRACK B – Mastering supplier management & mitigating risk
17:00 - 05:40 Fire Side Chat - How can you strategically manage and protect your data in an age of ‘high risk’ technology to mitigate reputational risk?- How to use cloud software to help protect business data
- What do you do with company and customer data and how is it managed?
- What control do you have over data stored using cloud technology?
- How can your suppliers assist in data protection and privacy?
- What can you do to preserve data and your businesses reputation?
SYNERGY WORKSHOPS - Limited to 20 attendees
17:00 - 05:40 Session Continued05:40 - 18:10 Oxford style debate – Your business should fully embrace cloud technology: Data is safe
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- Can you manage cloud services to protect data and shield privacy?
- You can work with regulators to ensure cloud-technology does not pose a regulatory risk
- Using the cloud to share data can leave your information open to hackers/competitors
- Ownership of data: who owns your data once it is on the cloud?