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Simon Gale

Procurement & Facilities Director
Sony Europe

Simon is directly responsible for a spend of €690m, where he leads his team of 33 for procurement and facilities, with a focus on organisational turnaround and revitalization. Recently Simon has achieved €15m year on year P&L savings, and reduced SGA by 50% over the same 5 year period. He focuses on aligning the value proposition to the organisation culture and Top Management buy-in.

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10 May – Impacting top line growth

Sunday, June 4th, 2017

14:30 Case study interactive: How to use tools, technology and data analytics to optimise your end-to-end source to pay procurement process

10 minutes: Case study from the leader:

What are the main advantages of using a brand new tool or technology over traditional methods such as emailing and spreadsheets?
How can the solution provider help with tool implementation and internal change management?
How well does this tool integrate with other systems in place?
How to persuade business partners that this tool is user friendly

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

Which tools and technologies would you use to manage vast amounts of data effectively to maintain data accuracy and data visibility

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

16:20 Interview: How can you build an end-to-end sourcing-to-pay-to-management system to optimise your indirect procurement resources

This panel provides expert opinions and real-life experience on which investments have been and which strategies have worked to provide an end-to-end service to internal stakeholders.

To what extent can you centralise your new process across regions and business areas?
How can you organise your end-to-end systems to ensure they run seamlessly?
What are the main challenges in implementing end-to-end systems and how can the be overcome?
What key decisions would you take when designing your end-to-end process – is it best to pick a single end-to-end solution or a combination of tools?

11 May - Aligning indirect procurement with business goals

Tuesday, July 4th, 2017

10:10 All star panel: Critical insights on how to align with overall business goals: Marketing, HR, IT, Logistics and Legal

An exciting and engaging discussion, drawing on the expertise of senior indirect leaders from across different industries to talk about how they are aligning with the varied and most pressing goals of their business.

What are the main tips and anecdotes on how procurement could better engage with business area heads?
What are the dos and don’ts on how procurement can demonstrate the value of the function to business heads?
Where do procurement teams deliver well and where could they improve?
How to measure the success of the procurement team?