7 expert-led roundtable debates to discuss and digest fresh insights on the key issues affecting the CPO function:
- Top down strategies to cut costs and leverage spend effectively
- Supplier relationship management - how to ‘connect better’
- Security of supply and supplier innovation to increase product and service offerings
- Methods, means and techniques for effective risk management
- Procurement outsourcing and category outsourcing
- Talent availability, retention,management and development
- Working capital management and supply chain finance
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You may be asking ‘what's new this year?
Last year, we had a packed room and question after question came for our two keynote presenters who delivered ‘real’ examples of procurement optimisation and innovation. So this year, we have hand-selected four speakers known for their progressive work in the sector and asked them to be candid and share what really drives their procurement organisations. Expect a lively Q&A session!
We have also doubled the number of panel sessions for 2012 and asked all panellists to condense their key points to a 5 minute case study presentation, then leave you to fire questions at them. There won’t be any time for ‘um’s’ and ‘ar’s’, or generic points of discussion, your time is important and the sessions have been designed to extract maximum value, to network, discuss best practice and benchmark with the leading European CPOs across industries, in one room for one day only.
Under Chatham House Rule, this is a unique opportunity to hear candid insight from 80 other C-Level procurement executives across industries on the problems they face and a chance to dig deep into the most fundamental strategic sourcing and purchasing management issues that concern you. With the roundtables to follow, come armed with problems to discuss and brainstorm solutions with the top minds in your field.
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Topics for discussion and debate:
• How to encourage innovation in the supplier base for co-development of product and service offerings for top line growth
• How is the role of the CPO changing - examining what capabilities will bring procurement to next level
• Transforming the procurement organisation to be focused on optimising the customer experience
• Ambition, capability and teamwork; three key factors that enable successful purchasing
• Extracting value from key relationships - effective engagement with internal stakeholders
• Sustainable sourcing - processes deployed and how to engage with key stakeholders for the future?