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2 - 4 November, 2010
Hotel Le Plaza, Brussels, Belgium
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Main Conference Day One: Tuesday 3 November 2009

 

How to Do More With Less: Procurement Takes The Lead In Turning Adverse Markets Into Opportunity
08:00 - Coffee & Registration
Coffee & Registration
08:30 - Chairman’s Opening Address
Chairman’s Opening Address
08:45 - Doing More With Less: Procurement’s Role in Surviving the Impact of the Credit Crunch
Stijn van Els, Executive Vice President of Contracting & Procurement, Shell
  • How can companies going long with suppliers adapt to price falls?
  • Addressing the capacity challenge in renegotiating in a seller’s market
  • Instilling the right discipline in the business to avoid pitfalls
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Stijn van Els
Executive Vice President of Contracting & Procurement, Shell
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09:20 - THE EXECUTIVE BOARD SUMMIT - The Strategic Role of Procurement in Turbulent Markets
Bas Burger, CEO, BT Benelux
Davy Vreys, CFO, BT Benelux
Jack Maclachlan, CEO, MetInvest Holding
Philippe Varlin, Finance Director, L'Oreal
  • How are COOs and CFOs approaching procurement and making sure they are not losing control over cost and trust during global economic downturn
  • Ensuring financial stability and flexibility through procurement and the supply base
  • Improving procurement’s efficiency and effectiveness in time with market conditions
  • Best practice oil price forecastability and peak oil
  • Handling the shift in power: Operating in a market where there are supply-demand imbalances for key raw materials
  • Adapting to mergers and restructuring of key suppliers
  • Managing suppliers’ bankruptcy risk
  • How can procurement become more proactive in supporting the global strategy of their company
  • Key methods for procurement to become more visible in financial results, turnover and cash
  • How can procurement react quicker to grab this opportunity for more responsibility?
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Bas Burger
CEO, BT Benelux

Bas Burger is the Chief Executive Officer of BT Benelux. Prior to this role, he was Executive Vice President at Getronics NV and CEO of KPN EnterCom.
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Davy Vreys
CFO, BT Benelux

Davy is a Chief Financial Officer with full responsibility for development and leadership of the financial department of BT Benelux. He is a sparring partner for the Board of Management in driving the company towards improved results and operations maximizing return on investment. His main achievements include:
  • Improving sustainable profitability substantially by implementing a dedicated re [read more]
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Jack Maclachlan
CEO, MetInvest Holding
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Philippe Varlin
Finance Director, L'Oreal
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09:55 - Measuring Performance Beyond Spend Visibility:
Mr. Niels Hedegaard, Director, LEGO
Sammeli Sammalkorpi, CEO & Co-Founder, Sievo
  • Spend visibility is backward looking and has no direct links to procurement performance. In this session you will learn how to leverage spend visibility as a platform to build world class procurement performance measurement.
  • Measuring procurement value contribution and bottom line impact
  • Translating procurement contribution into financial metrics that resonate with stakeholders
  • Covering all aspects of performance - costs, working capital, quality, risk, and stakeholder satisfaction
  • Mr. Hedegaard from LEGO will describe LEGO’s experiences in procurement performance management area
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Mr. Niels Hedegaard
Director, LEGO
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Sammeli Sammalkorpi
CEO & Co-Founder, Sievo

Sammeli Sammalkorpi is CEO and Co-Founder of Sievo. Sievo provides a unique and complete platform for procurement performance measurement and reporting covering all the relevant areas, including savings measurement, project management, compliance tracking, spend visibility, and supplier performance management. Prior to establishing Sievo Sammeli worked as a management consultant, supporting large [read more]
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10:30 - Mid Morning Coffee in the Exhibition Area
No session description available.
11:00 - National Grid – Global Procurement Transformation in Practice
Alex Klein, Vice President, Efficio
Jon Carlton, National Grid
Tony Martin, National Grid
With a €4 billion spend across the UK and the USA, National Grid is undergoing an ambitious programme to transform its procurement operations. 18 months in, the programme is delivering beyond expectations but still faces many challenges. Jon, Tony and Alex will share the key lessons learnt from National Grid’s procurement transformation. - Gaining the respect of, and integrating with, the business- Delivering measurable cost reductions on an unprecedented scale- Reorganising and reenergising the procurement team on a global basis
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Alex Klein
Vice President, Efficio
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Jon Carlton
, National Grid
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Tony Martin
, National Grid
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11:35 - Walking the Thin Line: How to Balance the Short-Term Cost Down Agenda with Mid-Term Competitiveness
Jules Goffre, Vice President, AT Kearney
  • How are companies dealing with high uncertainty
  • What should be the weight between tactical and strategic procurement activities
  • Supply base restructuring as a sustainable opportunity
  • Emerging methods of overcoming the challenges caused by fast changing external factors
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Jules Goffre
Vice President, AT Kearney

Jules has led the European Supply Management practice at A.T. Kearney since 2002. He has managed and executed numerous strategic sourcing and procurement transformation projects, resulting in time-to-market, cost reduction and service level improvement for clients across consumer goods, high tech, utilities and telecommunications sectors.
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12:10 - Structured “Speed” Networking
Structured networking will ensure that you make plenty of new contacts. This is an exciting, quick and easy way to meet fellow conference delegates and industry peers in one 30 minute session. These brief meetings are the starting point for valuable conversation and networking throughout the conference. This is where long lasting and profitable business relationships begin.
12:40 - Lunch
Lunch
15:00 - Afternoon Coffee in the Exhibition Area
Afternoon Coffee in the Exhibition Area
16:40 - Interactive Voting Panel Discussion: Can Procurement Capitalise on the Changing Market Situation to Cut Costs and Build a Foundation for the Future?
Onno Maliepaard, Director of Procurement, EMEA, Goodyear Dunlop
Steve Cooper, Head of Procurement, NFU Mutual
Peter Jones, Head of Procurement, Atos Consulting
  • Keeping procurement agile enough to act on market opportunities
  • Strategies to prepare in a downturn for the upturn
  • What capabilities does procurement need to develop in the changing market situation?
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Onno Maliepaard
Director of Procurement, EMEA, Goodyear Dunlop

Onno commenced his career in management consulting with Alexander Proudfoot Plc, where as junior consultant he participated in several business re-engineering projects across various industries. In 1994 , Onno moved into strategic global sourcing for Procter & Gamble where he held various regional and global procurement managment positions over a 9 year period. Roles ranged from upstream suppl [read more]
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Steve Cooper
Head of Procurement, NFU Mutual
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Peter Jones
Head of Procurement, Atos Consulting

Peter Jones is responsible for Atos Consulting's Procurement Transformation practice, and leads Atos Consulting's Global Centre of Excellence for Procurement. Peter has over 20 years of experience in both consultancy and line management in Procurement, Supply Chain and Operational Improvement. During his career, Peter has led complex transformation programmes in the telecommunications, electronics [read more]
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17:20 – 18:20 Champagne Roundtables – Your Opportunity to join interactive focused discussion groups on key topics including:
Atul Malhotra, CPO, Georg Fisher Automotive
Heinz Schaeffer, CPO, AXA NORCEE
Paul Bestford, Senior Director Strategic Sourcing, Novartis
Ton Geurts, CPO, AkzoNobel
Richard McIntosh, Director, ADR People
Mark Webb, Managing Director, Future Purchasing
YOUR CHOICE OF CHAMPAGNE ROUNDTABLES: I. Building Exceptional Procurement Teams; Balancing Development and Recruitment Hosted by: Richard McIntosh II. Sector Focus: Pharmaceutical Roundtable Hosted by: Paul Bestford III. Sector Focus: Financial Services Roundtable Hosted by: Heinz  Schaeffer IV. Sector Focus: Chemicals Roundtable Hosted by: Ton Geurts V. Sector Focus: Automotive Roundtable Hosted by: Atul Malhotra VI. Strategic Supplier Relationship Management and Re-engineering the Supply Chain. VII. Improving the Performance and Reducing the Cost of Big Category Spends. VIII. Building the Case for SRM - Value Delivered By Strategic Supplier Relationship Management in Major Organisations. Hosted by Mark Webb
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Atul Malhotra
CPO, Georg Fisher Automotive

Atul Malhotra is responsible for the worldwide sourcing and procurements of the group, with a total annual purchasing volume of about 1.000 M€. Atul has over 30 years of experience in Procurement, Supply Management, Business Development and other functions in internationally renowned industrial groups.
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Heinz Schaeffer
CPO, AXA NORCEE

Heinz Schaeffer was responsible for establishing the Procurement function for AXA within Germany. Heinz was instrumental in defining the organisational structure, the key policies and building the Procurement team. He actively contributes to international AXA Procurement activities and is since Summer 2007 responsible for Procurement Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Czec [read more]
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Paul Bestford

Paul Bestford
Senior Director Strategic Sourcing, Novartis
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Ton Geurts
CPO, AkzoNobel

Ton is a seasoned international trained counsel, business and program manager, negotiator and well experienced procurement professional. As of January 2007 he joined AkzoNobel being the first CPO of AkzoNobel. Together with the business AkzoNobel Sourcing coordinates €8 billion spend. The corporate function AkzoNobel Sourcing is staffed with 40 FTEs, particularly specialized in PR and NPR spend an [read more]
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Richard McIntosh
Director, ADR People

Richard McIntosh has 18 years experience in procurement, as a practitioner in industry, as an interim manager and as a consultant. He has worked in procurement roles for several large organisations including Ford New Holland, KPMG Consulting, B&Q, Nokia, Visa and eircom.Richard's expertise in strategic sourcing and his work with a wide range of world-class international procurement organisatio [read more]
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Mark Webb
Managing Director, Future Purchasing

Mark is the managing director of Future Purchasing, a consultancy that specialises in helping its clients to implement innovative sourcing and supplier management practices. Since co-founding the company in 2003, Mark has helped procurement teams to reduce costs and secure competitive advantage from their 3rd party spend by transforming approaches to supplier relationship management, external reso [read more]
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18:20 - End of Conference Day One
End of Conference Day One
19:00 - ProcureCon Drinks Reception
Relax and unwind over drinks at the ProcureCon Drinks Reception - Network with all ProcureCon attendees in an informal manner
20:00 - ProcureCon Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony
Put forward your company today or nominate an individual or company that you would like to see recognised! The nomination form is simple and easy to complete go to www.procureconawards.comfor more details.