Day One - Tuesday 2nd April 2019
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Monday 1st April– WELCOME TO THE NORDICS RECEPTION
8:00 am - 8:45 am Registration and welcome coffee
Positioning Procurement as a Value-Generating Function
8:45 am - 8:50 am Opening remarks – Letitia Thomas, Programme Director, WBR
8:50 am - 8:55 am AROUND THE WORLD CHARITY COMPETITION
8:55 am - 9:00 am Chair’s opening address and interactive polling: The top 5 trends to watch that are shaping the future of procurement
9:00 am - 9:20 am OPENING ADDRESS Making procurement ‘self-serve’: How to facilitate control in your buying process to deliver a faster, better and cost saving procurement strategy
· How can you create a business to business environment?
· How can procurement facilitate the role of digital buying to ensure faster, and better cost benefits?
· How can you make your procurement function more strategic?
· How can transparency across the business improve your buying power?
9:20 am - 10:00 am ALL STAR PANEL How to develop a digital and cultural transformation strategy to inspire your leaders and employees to become a fully digitalised procurement team of the future
· What is the digital outcome you want for your business?
· How can you get buy in from senior stakeholders and your procurement team?
· How can you influence your procurement function to buy digitally and influence digitally?
· What can procurement bring to digital innovation?
10:00 am - 10:20 am PRESENTATION ‘Winning the hearts and minds’ of your business: How to create transparency within your team and promote end-to-end responsibility
· How can your procurement function challenge itself and work with the environmental changes?
· How can transparency help get the best out of your procurement team?
· How can you influence your internal business to enhance procurement operations?
· How can procurement operate a motivational function to win the hearts and minds of stakeholders?
10:20 am - 10:40 am PRESENTATION - How can you influence your stakeholders to see procurement as a ‘value generator’ that makes the right new investments to achieve business- excellence whilst driving cost savings?
· How to enable practioners productivity and engagement
· How can you enable productivity through technology, and data?
· How can you show your business the value of procurement?
· How can you be the facilitator to achieve business-excellence?
· How you can deliver value to the business outside of just savings?
10:40 am - 11:20 am Networking Break
Embracing The Digital World
11:20 am - 11:40 am PRESENTATION - Enabling spend analytics: How can you use Machine Learning to better classify your supply base and spend?
· How can you build visibility in spend to create a controlled environment?
· How can data be used to build visibility and drive trends?
· How can you implement an established process to navigate your data pools?
· How can harmonized data help you to understand spend across your business units and identify trends?
· How can using data become a bi-product of the procurement role?
How can data deliver innovation
11:40 am - 12:00 pm PRESENTATION L&G Group Procurement – Evolution and Vision in an Agile, Digital world
12:00 pm - 12:40 pm CASE STUDY INTERACTIVE - Becoming a digital native: How can you boost your team’s AI, data analytics and blockchain buying knowledge to meet the needs of your category stakeholders in an increasingly digitalised world?
· How can you boost your team’s digital buying knowledge in a digitalised world?
· How can procurement lead the categories into the future?
· What is the impact of technology on your category areas?
· How can technology be brought into the category strategies?
12:40 pm - 12:50 pm PRESENTATION - Marketplaces in a digital ecosystem: How can you use marketplaces to promote your procurement organisation as a true business partner?
Burkard Schemmel
Head of Enterprise Customer Success DACH & CEEAmazon
12:50 pm - 1:10 pm PRESENTATION - Why Contract Management Should Be the Foundation of Your Procurement Transformation
1:10 pm - 2:50 pm AROUND THE WORLD NETWORKING LUNCH
1:10 pm - 2:50 pm MASTERCLASS - Beware the little expenses. A small leak can sink a great travel program
1:10 pm - 2:50 pm MASTERCLASS - The Importance of A.I. in Contract Lifecycle Management for Procurement & Sourcing
TRACK A – Mastering Data, Digital & eProcurement
2:50 pm - 2:55 pm Chair’s opening address
TRACK A – Mastering Data, Digital & eProcurement
2:55 pm - 3:15 pm PRESENTATION Digital Revolution: How can you leverage “Procurement 4.0” in your strategy to combine new technology and revolutionise your operational and administrative processes?· How can you produce a new procurement role that goes beyond delivering savings?
· How can technology help to bring innovation to your procurement function?
· How can technology be leveraged in day to day procurement operations?
· How can “Procurement 4.0” help deliver change to procurement?
TRACK A – Mastering Data, Digital & eProcurement
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm ALL STAR PANEL How can you roll-out a brand new eProcurement platform with minimal disruption to your suppliers and internal stakeholders?- What is required to accelerate a successful eProcurement transformation?
- How can you build knowledge/ among your stakeholders and suppliers to be able to use new digital systems effectively?
- How can you overcome objections to a changing process from stakeholders?
- What are the best strategies to ensure adherence with new systems in order to ensure you have oversight of all transactions
- How can you support your suppliers when moving to a new process or eProcurement platform?
TRACK B – Rethinking Third Party & Supplier Relationship Management
2:50 pm - 2:55 pm Chair’s opening address
TRACK B – Rethinking Third Party & Supplier Relationship Management
2:55 pm - 3:15 pm PRESENTATION Your Corporate Social Responsibility: How to enhance transparency in your supply chain to manage your suppliers, understand risk and reduce the environmental impact of your buying· How can focusing on your indirect spend lead to cost savings?
· How can you understand who your suppliers are, what they are supplying and where the best value comes from?
· What are the supplier risks in the current world (modern slavery, GDPR, handing of payment data, environmental risk)
· How can you create a holistic view of your supply chain?
TRACK B – Rethinking Third Party & Supplier Relationship Management
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm CASE STUDY INTERACTIVE Third party enabled innovation: How can you leverage innovation from your suppliers, business partners and procurement team to drive holistic change that can give a competitive edge?· How can you define who can bring innovation to your business?
· How can you change your organisations way of thinking?
· How can a holistic view of innovation bring change to your strategy?
· How can you make innovation a standard in your business?
· What is the importance of changing your organisations set-up to receive innovation?
SYNERGY WORKSHOPS Embracing the New Role of Procurement Limited to 30 attendees
2:50 pm - 3:45 pm Becoming a “life-long learner”: How can you embrace the changes to procurement as a function to continue to grow professionally in an ever changing world?· How are the socio-economic changes of todays world influencing and impacting procurement?
· How can senior procurement figures continue to learn and develop?
· How can you influence your team to continue adapting and learning within the procurement organisation?
CREATIVE BOARDROOM – Defining Cultural & Organisational Change Limited to 15 attendees
2:50 pm - 3:45 pm An exclusive insight into the Nokia team restructure: How can you move away from traditional ‘direct’ and ‘indirect’ category management to form a procurement structure that your business units and gains their buy-in?· Does your business understand ‘direct’ and ‘indirect’?
· How can procurement use the same language as their customers to optimise performance?
· How can the removal of ‘direct’ and ‘indirect’ help your supplier management?
· How can a different way of prioritisation help your procurement structure?
· Redesigned the processes both in procurement and in the internal business.
3:45 pm - 4:25 pm AROUND THE WORLD AFTERNOON NETWORKING RECEPTION
TRACK A – Mastering Data, Digital & eProcurement
4:25 pm - 5:05 pm CASE STUDY INTERACTIVE Driving your strategy: How can you use data analytics to best support your procurement initiatives in the wider business?· How can analysed data be used to build a procurement strategy?
· How can data help identify trends in supplier relationships?
· How can data help understand strategic developments?
· How does real time data help reduce spend and deliver savings?
· How can you acquire better quality data?
· How can analytics help you predict and use your data?
TRACK A – Mastering Data, Digital & eProcurement
5:05 pm - 5:30 pm PRESENTATION Which techniques can you use to be more persuasive and drive and leverage your data?· How can data gathered through procurement systems be used to benefit stakeholders?
· How can you use data to influence the business through change?
· How can eProcurement platforms collect data?
· How can analytics help understand data?
TRACK B – Rethinking Third Party & Supplier Relationship Management
4:25 pm - 5:05 pm ALL STAR PANEL Mitigating reputational risk: How can you effectively evaluate your suppliers to gain more control over quality whilst driving cost efficiencies?· How do the legislative and regulatory changes effect how you manage suppliers?
· How do you bring more control to spend?
· How can reducing your supply base allow for a great transparency of spend?
· How can vendors be approved with minimal risk?
· How can your supplier’s reputation levels affect your internal business?
TRACK B – Rethinking Third Party & Supplier Relationship Management
5:05 pm - 5:30 pm PRESENTATION - Leadership, Humility and Flexibility: How to create a successful procurement-led, cross organisational supplier management programme· What can you do to influence supplier management?
· What knowledge and tools can you provide to monitor supplier performance?
· Who is responsible for supplier’s scorecards?
· What KPIs can you out in place to measure your suppliers holistically?
SYNERGY WORKSHOPS Embracing the New Role of Procurement - Limited to 30 attendees
4:35 pm - 6:00 pm Millenials and the change they bring to sourcing: How to embrace and address the mindset of millenials and their commitment to your organisation· How does the millenial mindset differ to the tradition mindset of your procurement function?
· What skills can millenials offer that are different to your current team skillset?
· How can you influence and control the millenial loyalty to your organisation?
· How can recruiting millenial talent help with your digital initiative?
CPO LEADERS BOARDROOM – Defining Cultural & Organisational Change
4:35 pm - 6:00 pm CPO & GLOBAL LEADERS AROUND THE WORLD WINE & CHEESE TASTING SESSION (Procurement Practitioner Only)Discussion point 1: How are you planning to get your infrastructure prepared to cope with ever-changing milestones for digital requirements?
Discussion point 2: How can you encourage supplier diversity & inclusion and sustainability programmes within your procurement team and with suppliers to lead the way with corporate social responsibility?
Discussion point 3: How are you prioritising Agile in your strategy?
Discussion point 4: What steps are you taking to utilise and enhance data use?
