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Klaids Lafon De Ribeyrolles

Infrastructure and Services Purchasing Executive Vice President
Rolls-Royce

Klaids manages external non-production spend globally. Recently, he has successfully driven year on year cost reduction activities to reach a double digit percentage, whilst increasing internal and external users’ experience and performance. In his role, Klaids implements strategic designs and transformations necessary to significantly improve the performance of his £ multibillion purchasing organisation through the effective harnessing of supplier innovation, balanced autonomy, and clear direction and purpose.

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10 May – Impacting top line growth

Sunday, June 4th, 2017

16:20 How can you best source and manage your suppliers in a highly regulated industry?

Limited to 25 attendees

How can you balance the pressure on cost versus supplier monitoring requirements from the regulators?
How can you take into account regulatory requirements when sourcing and validating your suppliers?
What processes can you put in place to speed up sourcing a new supplier or changing your supplier?
How can you set up a framework agreement and and preferred supplier list to ensure you remain compliant

11 May - Aligning indirect procurement with business goals

Tuesday, July 4th, 2017

11:30 Case study interactive: How can you broaden the scope of the indirect procurement role to reach into business areas’ productivity, processes, tools, structure and people?

10 minutes: Case study from the leader:

How can procurement get involved in wider business improvement?
How to convey to the business areas that there is a real commercial advantage to changing the shape of the business
How to persuade business areas to share information and work more closely with you

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

What can you do to broaden the scope of indirect procurement into productivity, efficiency in processes, policy and people?

10 minutes: Feedback from each round table and conclusion from the leader