Pedro Barata

Principle Programme Lead Cognitive Procurement
Vodafone

Pedro is currently working as Digital Business Shaper for Vodafone’s Procurement function, with special focus on digital initiatives such as cognitive procurement. Pedro has held several strategic roles within Vodafone over the last 6 years, including business partnering in the areas of roaming trading and strategic asset management. Prior to Vodafone, he had a 10 year career as strategy and operations consultant for Deloitte and Arthur Andersen where he was tasked with understanding the responsibilities of delivering a wide variety of projects like decision support models, organisational transformation and process reengineering across multiple industries ranging from telecommunications to utilities. Pedro will be sharing this experience on day 2 in our spend segmentation track.

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Conference Day Two – Wednesday 5 April 2017

Thursday, May 4th, 2017

16:20 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:

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