18th Annual Chemical and Pharma Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Summit

22 – 23 March 2023 | Mercure Amsterdam City

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Maarten Van Helvoort

Procurement Director Europe & Africa Middle East

Victor Scarante

Head Corporate
Services Procurement

Laia Cuadrado

Head of Purchasing

John Wenz

Vice President Operational Excellence, EMEA

Jeremy Fry

Project Leader –
Excellence Center

CONFERENCE TOPICS 2023

LOOK AT THE TOPICS THAT WERE DISCUSSED

  • Sustainability as a new currency in sourcing and procurement
  • Differentiate to innovate: Innovation through supplier diversity
  • Collaboration, Transparency, Standardisation: What are the benefits of eSourcing
  • Agile transformation as the main focus: How to move away from traditional data aggregation?
  • New boost for ESG: How to achieve competitive advantage implementing Big Data and AI?
  • Robotic process automation (RPA), advanced analytics, advanced sourcing optimisation, artificial intelligence (AI): Where to invest in 2023 to streamline business processes?
  • Outsourcing and hybrid work models: Determining the technologies and resources needed to support these new modes of work

Designed for

Members of board, C-level, Senior/Global Vice Presidents, Directors, Heads of departments from the chemical/petrochemical and pharma industries  involved in:

  • Procurement
  • Global Procurement
  • Sourcing
  • Strategic Sourcing
  • Direct Procurement
  • Indirect Procurement
  • Purchasing
  • Procurement Transformation
  • Procurement Excellence
  • Category Management
  • Demand Management
  • Spend Management
  • Procurement Strategy
  • Procurement Quality Management
  • Supplier Relations Management

CASE STUDY

The Digitalisation of Procurement Processes: New Channels for Achieving Goals

Digital technology must follow first strategic needs and second a well-designed process

  • Procurement digital landscape
  • Systems Architecture – Digital backbone and best of breed
  • Technology for value – ESG, resilience, performance, analytics

Victor Scarante

Head of Global Procurement Excellence

Grünenthal

Maarten Van Helvoort

Procurement Director Europe & Africa Middle East

Corteva

CASE STUDY

Top Priorities for Sourcing and Procurement Leaders

As procurement raises its profile to join the C-Suite in more industries, leaders must get ahead of the expectation curve that is a result. Procurement professionals must focus on delivering top-line growth while continuing to drive value and manage costs. Our people will help shape the future which has a greater focus on market knowledge, sustainability, diversity, risk management, innovation, and collaboration, and it makes full use of technology.

  • Laser focus on delivering value to the final customer vs. only internal stakeholders
  • Be the organization that gets things done
  • Leverage Digital
  • Deliver informative shopping and browsing to satisfy business needs
  • Integrate and promote diverse sustainable supply options
  • Nudge to select low-cost / low-carbon delivery, packaging, and recyclable options
  • Create Information vs Data
  • Champion the use of SRM to select and grow with innovative partners

CASE STUDY

Fighting Inflation with Demand Management: Indirect Spend Use Cases

While it is relatively easy to explain Demand Management within the framework of a company’s supply chain, it is not easy to implement it in practice, given the many complexities involved: a few case studies on indirect spending.

Jeremy Fry

Project Leader – Excellence Center

Solvay

John Wenz

Vice President Operational Excellence, EMEA

Eisai

CASE STUDY

Implementing Digital Procurement and Managing Risk to the Business via Supplier On-Boarding

Provide an insight into the benefits and challenges faced in implementing a regional digital procurement tool within a global organisation. How to manage supplier risk as part of the on-boarding process for a mature supplier base
• The reasoning behind deciding on implementing a regional digital procurement tool
• Return On Investment of a digital procurement tool
• Considerations and learnings for Regional/ Global digital procurement tool implementation
• Overcoming the challenges of implementing supplier on-boarding/risk assessments with a mature supplier base to manage risk for the business

Great event with lots to learn. I liked the quality of presentations.

Air Products– Procurement Director EMEA

I found this event very insightful. I appreciated very much the open discussions and knowledge sharing

ICL Europe– VP Global Raw Materials Procurement and Global Procurement

I found it very interesting in terms of experience exchange. Very interactive group which always enriches this kind of workshops

Boehringer Ingelheim– Head of Purchasing

Always a great opportunity to meet other pharma procurement professionals and to learn some new ideas and approaches

Teva– Senior Director of Logistics

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