Zsolt Szeker

Head of Indirect Procurement Operations
Nokia

Zsolt heads up indirect procurement globally for Nokia – he is responsible for €4bnindirect material and services spend, as well as the companies indirect Procure to Pay system for 110+ country operations of with a team of c130. Zsolt is also Nokia’s Procurement Integration Leader for the €14bn Alcatel-Lucent acquisition and is responsible for procurement synergy savings, procurement operations integration, transformation and fast and effective ways to maximise synergy savings and organisational effectiveness. Zsolt will be sharing this experience in a case study interactive on M&A using his own experience of Nokia’s successful acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent using procurement operations. Nokia is a Finnish multinational communications and information technology company.

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Conference Day One – Tuesday 4 April 2017

Tuesday, April 4th, 2017

13:45 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?

14:30 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

Conference Day Two – Wednesday 5 April 2017

Thursday, May 4th, 2017

09:40 Case study interactive – A successful M&A story: Driving procurement synergies focus on indirect

10 minutes 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

20 minutes: Delegates ill set up in round tables – each round table will discuss how to solve this challenge:

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