Members of board, C-level, Senior/Global Vice Presidents, Directors, Heads of departments from the chemical/petrochemical and pharma industries involved in:
18th Annual Chemical and Pharma Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Summit
22 – 23 March 2023 | Mercure Amsterdam City
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CONFERENCE TOPICS 2023
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- 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
- 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
• 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
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