SPEAKERS
SAMPLE OF KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND THEIR CASE STUDIES

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

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

Jeremy Fry
Project Leader – Excellence Center
Solvay
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.

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