Workshops: August 27th 2008
12:30 - 15.00 Workshop A: Best Practice in Global Sourcing
Defining your global sourcing strategy and focusing on proactive and structured planning is a key element of success in today’s procurement reality. This workshop will provide you with lessons of how to implement a strategy that has local and global coverage to leverage on existing supplier relationships and see early benefits.
Benefit from lessons into:
- Extending your supplier base to a flexible level to develop your business
- Current challenges and mitigation mechanisms to realize the cost efficient potential of global sourcing
- Evolution of Procurement Activities – Changes will occur in procurement activities including adoption of e-procurement tools, procurement outsourcing, etc.
About your workshop leader:
Geoffrey Yin, Evalueserve (China). Geoffrey has been working on diverse procurement projects since early 2007. He has lead a team working on long-term procurement support for a Europe based paper manufacturing company. His work includes identifying potential suppliers.
15:00 - 17:15 Workshop B: Implement Lean thinking in your procurement organization
The benefits of lean thinking within the manufacturing process have been known for a long time, however there are great lessons to be learned for Procurement Professionals. By reducing waste and implementing lean strategies, the Procurement organization can contribute to the bottom line by radically cutting costs. This workshop will give you an understanding of the Lean concept for Procurement.
Benefit from lessons into:
- Setting clear development goals for creating process excellence in strategic procurement
- Increase profits by fine tuning procurement processes in accordance with Lean thinking
- Create a deep understanding for the Lean way with all employees to entrench positive change
About your workshop leader:
Workshop leader to be announced.
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