ProcureCon Indirect 2016 (past event)
10 - 12 May, 2016
44 (0) 207 368 9451
12 May - Delivering value to business partners
08:15 - 09:00 Registration and welcome coffee
09:00 - 09:10 Chair's opening adress
John Durrell
Head of ProcurementEquiniti Group
09:10 - 10:00 Case study interactive: How can you measure, scorecard and benchmark your supplier performance to help manage the relationship and demonstrate value-add to your business areas?
10 minutes: Case study from the leader:
Mobile TeleSystems
Vodafone
- How to ensure scorecarding and supplier rating is objective What resources can you use to benchmark supplier performance?
- How can you assess and measure long term value versus short term cost savings?
- How can you assess performance through client exchange meetings?
- How to keep a positive relationship whilst measuring performance
- Which tools and strategies would you prioritise to measure the performance of your supplier – what works well and not so well?
Paolo Baldo
Deputy CPO MTS Group, Director Procurement Planning and StrategyMobile TeleSystems
Reinhard Plaza-Bartsch
Head of Commercial Contract ManagementVodafone
10:00 - 10:20 Interview: How can you use data and predictive analytics to make key decisions on your suppliers, spend and costs?
- How can you gather and consolidate data from a large number of suppliers including those who are not in long-term partnerships?
- How can you implement a system with full transparency across procurement, business areas and suppliers?
- How can you display data in a meaningful way to predict outcomes and make informed decisions?
- How can you connect data end-to-end from sourcing to payment to vendor management?
- What can you put in place to ensure use data in the most lean and efficient way?
Richard Beaumont
Head of Procurement & Commercial at Prudential Global Digital Services UKThe Co-operative Bank
10:20 - 11:00 Morning networking break
11:00 - 11:50 Interview: How can you use automation to really free-up resource and improve your indirect spend strategy to add value to the business?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of using automation?
- How can you best assess and stratify your spend to mitigate risk when automating your procurement processes?
- To what extent does implementing a system improve efficiency?
- How can you ensure automation is streamlined and simplified rather than a hindrance?
- What are the predictions for how automation will change procurement processes over the next 5-10 years?
11:50 - 12:40 Case study interactive: How to get buy-in and trust from your board and internal stakeholders on your indirect procurement transformation project – focus on change management
- How sell the transformation project as a business case to the board
- What steps can you put in place to engage your team and drive change management within the business?
- How to take decisions and make investments to set up the best structure, tools and processes
- What are the lessons learned from what went wrong and what could be done differently next time?
12:40 - 13:40 Networking Lunch
13:40 - 13:50 Chair's opening remarks
13:50 - 14:00 Case study interactive: How to promote a stronger team culture and demonstrate business-specific knowledge in order to truly engage your internal business stakeholders
10 minutes: Case study from the leader:
- How can you succeed in engaging your business areas right from the start?
- How can you engage with your business area heads and add value rather than being perceived as a road block?
- How can you best convey the value of the procurement team to business heads?
- How to develop your team skills to integrate and communicate effectively
- What steps should you put in place to best communicate and understand the needs of your business heads
30 minutes: Delegates will be set up in round tables – each round table will discuss how to solve this challenge:
- What would you do differently to engage with your business stakedholers and would you prioritise demonstrating savings, vendor management, risk management, innovation with suppliers or something else?
10 minutes: Feedback from each round table and conclusion from the leader
14:00 - 18:10 Industry focused wine-tasting round tables: Sharing and finding solutions to indirect procurement challenges within your industry
Your opportunity to socially engage with peers within your specific industry:
The room will be pre-set into round-tables, each round table will be themed, will have a leader and a max of 10 participants
For 20 minutes - the leader will facilitate the following discussion:
What specific indirect procurement challenges are you facing within your industry and what solutions can you suggest?
For 60 minutes - the leader will facilitate the wine tasting exercise with your group
- Financial services
- Technology and Telecommunications
- Logistics/Distribution
- Energy / Utilities
- Retail/Travel
- Pharma
- Automotive/Aerospace
- FMCG
- Manufacturing
- Bank / Asset management
18:10 - 16:30 Unconference Live - Q&A and conference wrap up
At the end of the conference, reflect on the next big thing you're facing that hasn't yet been addressed. Post your suggestions on the event mobile app and our expert panel will reflect on some of the key takeaways from 2015 – addressing the future topics that we should discuss next year.