2 - 4 November, 2010
Hotel Le Plaza, Brussels, Belgium
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SUPPLIER RISK MANAGEMENT FOCUS DAY

Implementing Tools and Processes to Accurately Forecast Your Supplier’s Financial Viability, and Take Practical Steps To Mitigate Risk

 

Monday 2 November 2009

08.00 - Coffee & Registration
Coffee & Registration
08.45 - Chairman’s Opening Address
Chairman’s Opening Address
09.00 - How to Manage Supplier Risk in the New Paradigm for Business Continuity: Water Treatment Case Study
Larry Beard, Interim Purchasing Director, BAA
  • Tracking what supplier relationship and financial viability mean for future business
  • Adapting to the availability of fewer assets with fewer suppliers
  • Understanding if capacity will be impacted and how it will affect your business
  • Managing key suppliers that may not survive: Is there anything you can do to ensure your business continuity through your supplier’s survival?
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Larry Beard
Interim Purchasing Director, BAA

Larry has recently joined BAA as there Interim Purchasing Director. BAA operates Heathrow and five other UK airports, the total expenditures across the business both Opex and Cpaex is in excess of £2.8B PA Prior to BAA, Larry was Purchasing & Supply Chain Director (there first PurchasingDirector) at Severn Trent Water and has also worked for Esab,Ford, Fiat, and MG Rover. He is also a Fellow o [read more]
09.40 - Managing Supplier Risks in the Current Economic Crisis: Automotive Case Study
Atul Malhotra, CPO, Georg Fisher Automotive
  • Supply risks in a global sourcing environment
  • Identifying signals of potential supplier default
  • Monitoring and assessing high risk suppliers
  • Implementing actions to mitigate risks
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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.
10.20 - Mid Morning Coffee in Exhibition Area
Mid Morning Coffee in Exhibition Area
11.00 - Two Sides of Risk Management: Protecting the Downside and Creating an Upside
Elda Simonaska, Consultant Expert in Purchasing and Supply Management, Oliver Wyman
  • Ensuring risk management becomes embedded in the day-to-day work of procurement
  • Using the crisis to better manage risk and reduce cost further
  • Establishing an upside - risk and competitive advantage
  • Managing strategic supplier risk to accelerate growth
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Elda Simonaska
Consultant Expert in Purchasing and Supply Management, Oliver Wyman

Based in Paris, Elda is a Consultant Expert in Purchasing and Supply Management at Oliver Wyman. She specializes in the suppliers integration in the supply chain, risk management, measurement of purchasing performance, human resources issues in purchasing and the links between purchasing strategy and actions at operational [read more]
11.40 - How to Synchronise Your Supply Chain: Key Strategies to Help You Reduce Cost Without Damaging Your Suppliers
Daniel Cameron, Performance Director, Royal Mail
Jay Doyle, Head of Vendor Management, Royal Mail
  • What can be done to synchronise your supply chain to prevent total collapse?
  • Establishing flexibility as a business discipline to reduce volumes now and increase again after recession
  • Are consortiums and working with cross-functional teams a solution to help you increase savings while helping your suppliers’ survival?
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Daniel Cameron
Performance Director, Royal Mail

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Jay Doyle
Head of Vendor Management, Royal Mail

12.20 - Lunch
Lunch
13.20 - Interactive Roundtables
Interactive Roundtables is a series of interactive discussions for senior procurement professionals, allowing them to network and participate in high-level discussions with their peers and with industry experts and solution providers. They share their success stories and key challenges, and learn how others have overcome procurement’s fundamental issues.
  1. Managing and integrating supply chain effectively in the face of supplier risk
  2. Making on the spot assessment on critical suppliers
  3. Understanding the timing of future cover and hedging positions to secure competitive advantage
  4. Transferring the internal resources for monitoring customers to monitoring suppliers
  5. Making risk management a repeatable business discipline
14.40 - Afternoon Coffee in Exhibition Area
Afternoon Coffee in Exhibition Area
15.10 - Building a Warning System to Monitor and Manage Supplier Risks
Marc Vollenweider, CEO and Co-Founder , Evalueserve
  • Best practice methods of assessing/tracking the financial viability of your suppliers
  • Financial key indicators and challenges in tracking supplier health
  • Non-financial key indicators (e.g. innovations, marketing, customer base)
  • Methodologies and sources to access this information
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Marc Vollenweider
CEO and Co-Founder , Evalueserve

Marc Vollenweider founded Evalueserve in December 2000, after spending a decade with McKinsey & Co (including two years as a Principal in Switzerland and India). Prior to starting Evalueserve, Marc established McKinsey Knowledge Centre in Gurgaon, India and grew it from 14 to 120 professionals between 1999 and end of 2000. Evalueserve now has 2,300 employees worldwide and research centres in G [read more]
15.50 - Timing of Future Cover and Hedging Positions to Secure Competitive Advantage
Kaleb Belzer, Risk Manager, Bunge Europe
  • Understanding the behaviour of the financial markets to avoid cash, price and commodity risk
  • How to secure bottom line and P&L in highly volatile market conditions?
  • How to use financial tools to extend payment days
  • Preparing your procurement organisation for better times. Addressing the challenge of quickly adapting the organisational processes when markets pick up
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Kaleb Belzer
Risk Manager, Bunge Europe

Kaleb joined Bunge in 2002 and in his current role, he is responsible for developing the organization, systems, policies and procedures to identify, manage, and control market risk for a $12 billion sales subsidiary of Bunge Limited with 14 business units operating in 21 countries. Kaleb is also responsible for generating the risk analytics (valuation, stress testing, sce [read more]

16.30 - Interactive Voting Panel Discussion: How Can CPOs Establish Supplier & Commodity Risk Management As A Standard Business Practice Even At Best of Times?
Marc Magistrali, Senior Vice President Global Sourcing & CPO, KONE
Kevin Devoy, Head of Procurement and Supplier Management, Centrica
Larry Beard, Interim Purchasing Director, BAA
Jonathan Hughes, Partner, Vantage Partners
  • Identifying the greatest opportunities for improvement in your supply chain, and targeting investments for maximum impact
  • Tracking improvements to provide critical information for future negotiation of purchasing and service agreements
  • Extending the reach and capabilities of your audit team for expeditious and reliable assessments
  • Are purchasing alliances a solution?
Marc Magistrali

Marc Magistrali
Senior Vice President Global Sourcing & CPO, KONE

Marc is responsible for worldwide direct and indirect material spend. Marc has previously had similar leadership roles with leading multinationals including Philips and Avery Dennison. He manages a worldwide team of more than 150 sourcing and supplier quality professionals spread across the globe. He has recently led an organisational redesign, transforming what was previously a highly decentralis [read more]
Kevin Devoy

Kevin Devoy
Head of Procurement and Supplier Management, Centrica

Kevin has extensive commercial experience within British Gas and Centrica, an energy (gas and electricity) utility in the UK. In his career he has been involved in the procurement of most service and commodity categories. He currently manages a team involved in a wide range of category procurement and supply management activities within the Centrica businesses including FM and Property, outsourced [read more]
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Larry Beard
Interim Purchasing Director, BAA

Larry has recently joined BAA as there Interim Purchasing Director. BAA operates Heathrow and five other UK airports, the total expenditures across the business both Opex and Cpaex is in excess of £2.8B PA Prior to BAA, Larry was Purchasing & Supply Chain Director (there first PurchasingDirector) at Severn Trent Water and has also worked for Esab,Ford, Fiat, and MG Rover. He is also a Fellow o [read more]
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Jonathan Hughes
Partner, Vantage Partners

Jonathan Hughes is a partner at Vantage Partners, a consulting firm spin-off of the Harvard Negotiation Project. As an expert in negotiation, supply chain management, strategic alliances, and change management, he has worked with leading companies across a range of industries in North and South America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Africa to develop and implement new go-to-market and supply chai [read more]
17.10 - End of Supplier Risk Management Focus Day
17.10 - End of Supplier Risk Management Focus Day