Procurecon 2016 (past event)
08 - 10 November, 2016
44 (0) 207 368 9459
Day 3
08:00 - 08:55 Coffee and Networking
Grab a coffee and start networking.
08:55 - 09:00 Chairperson’s Opening Thoughts
As businesses increasingly look to procurement to drive the innovation agenda find out how to harness market intelligence to identify opportunities in your supplier base and continuously improve processes to achieve operational excellence.
09:00 - 09:40 Interactive Case Study – How to Adopt a New Open Way of Working on Innovation with Partners Inside and Outside the Business
- Why innovation is so important in capturing future customer markets who expect automation
- How to ‘shake the tree’ to put innovation at the top of your procurement agenda
- Nokia’s 3-year roadmap to move to a more open way of working on innovation
- How to work with technology providers to support your transition to a more innovative business function
09:40 - 10:20 Interactive Case Study - How to Strike the Right Balance between Compliance, Risk, Insight & Innovation
When striving for operational excellence it is important to find the right balance of all key competencies. Find out how Martin manages to drive compliance whilst building processes that enable innovation to flow into the business. With senior procurement leadership experience as CPO at Qinetiq, Martin has a working knowledge of what good looks like.
- How to set the right goals for improvement before you begin your path to operational excellence
- How to develop a culture of compliance to manage risk across your global supply chain
- How to leverage breakthroughs in procurement data to gain new insights into spend management
- How to bring together all the principles, systems and tools you need to drive innovation
10:20 - 10:50 Case Study – Tactical Successes Stories on the Path to Operational Excellence
10:50 - 23:30 Morning Networking Break
Refresh, grab a coffee and introduce yourself to new contacts to expand your professional network in the solution lounge where you can also find breakthrough procurement tools and services.
23:30 - 12:15 Guest Speaker – How to Use Emotion in Business Relationships to Achieve Operational Excellence and Drive the Innovation Agenda
As a former neurosurgeon Ravi knows a thing or two about how connections can be made in the brain. Since then he has spent considerable time working with major global businesses advising them on how to do make similarly complex connections between their teams, with unexpected fantastic results. During this session you will experience new techniques that will deepen your relationships and improve their performance leading to more innovation, more intelligence and operational excellence.
- What is emotional business?
- How to challenge your notions of good and bad relationship management
- How to measure your credit in the business and translate it into profitable results for procurement
- How to sustain new relationships inside and outside the business that focus on innovation exchange
Ravi Rao
Executive CoachEmotional Business
12:15 - 12:55 Panel Discussion – 5 New Ways Procurement Can Influence Innovation for Your Business
Nafeh Masood Chief Procurement Officer NYU Abi Dhabi
Miguel Caulliez Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) Nokia
Jim Miller Director, Procurement, Commissioning & Facilities NHS National Services Scotland
Anton Shibanov Contract Management Department Leader MTS
Moderator:
Anthony Ryan Head of Procurement Operations Eir Telecom
12:55 - 13:00 What’s the Big Idea? Thinking the Unthinkable
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00 LunchTake a break, enjoy a 3 course menu in the adjoining restaurant and make lots of new contacts.
Drop In Clinic
13:00 - 14:00 Drop In Clinic – Tips and Advice on How to Achieve Operational Excellence
Excellent in Innovation
14:00 - 14:40 Interactive Case Study - A Modern Toolkit for Extracting More Innovation from Your Supplier BaseNeil, previously CPO at Sainsbury’s, can help you improve the way you profile suppliers, align procurement and supplier objectives and agree on a consistent method of communication to give innovation the best chance. Presented as a tool kit for any senior procurement professional this session will provide you with advice on:
- How to engage and screen prospective suppliers for innovation over cost
- How to align suppliers’ values with your own business’ values to create fertile ground for innovation sharing
- How to ensure project completion by making delivery a shared objective between procurement and suppliers
- How to communicate and share learnings across your supply chain to raise awareness of innovation in action
Track C – Roundtables –Customer of Choice
14:00 - 14:40 Roundtables
1. How Digital is Opening up New Avenues to Become a Customer of Choice
Céline Biette-Danielli, Principal Category Manager- Agencies, Marketing & Content, Vodafone Procurement Company Sarl Marie Fetis, Procurement Manager, SES
2. How to Leverage Data-Centric Procurement to Become a Customer of Choice
Nafeh Masood, Director, Finance and Procurement, NYU Abu Dhabi
3. Tactics to Influence and Enable Excellence
Marcel Rosenast, Head of Indirect Procurement, Lonza
Excellent in Innovation
14:40 - 15:10 Case Study - Mastering Partnerships to De-complex Your Supplier Base
Track C – Roundtables –Customer of Choice
14:40 - 15:10 Session ContinuedRefresh, grab a coffee and introduce yourself to new contacts to expand your professional network in the solution lounge where you can also find breakthrough procurement tools and services.
15:10 - 15:40 Break
Refresh, grab a coffee and introduce yourself to new contacts to expand your professional network in the solution lounge where you can also find breakthrough procurement tools and services.
15:40 - 16:40 Interactive Case Study – Fuelling Business Growth: The Interaction of Procurement and the External Networks in Lifecycle Management and Bringing New Ideas to Life
- How to identify the right suppliers to work on innovation with who can give your business the competitive edge
- How to build the right level of trust and commitment to sustain innovation exchange with key suppliers
- How to measure the impact of innovation across your supply chain to demonstrate investing more time on the innovation agenda
- How to leverage technology to unlock innovation from suppliers
