Conference Day Two: August 27th 2008
08:25 Chairman’s Welcome
08:30 Strategic Supplier Relations Management Across
A Global Purchasing Supply Chain
- KPI’s for choosing and evaluating preferred suppliers to cut costs
- Securing long term relationships with select suppliers
- Decode your suppliers and open up dialogue to increase productivity and create sustainable development
Lauri Leskinen, Director, Sourcing and Logistics, GS-Hydro Group (Finland).
09:15 Delivering True Strategic Supplier Relationship
Management
- Choosing, evaluating and motivating your preferred suppliers to cut costs and generate value
- Start slowly, build quickly – a pragmatic way to start and scale your organisation’s supplier collaboration efforts
- Securing long term partnerships with your select suppliers to drive increased productivity and create sustainable development
Jesper Schade, Vice President, Efficio (UK). Jesper joined Efficio in 2007 as a Vice President with an extensive background in strategic procurement, supply management and operations consulting. Jesper has more than 17 years of experience in strategic sourcing and procurement transformation across a broad range of industries. Prior to joining Efficio, Jesper held a number of leading positions within A.T. Kearney’s supply management and operations practices. Jesper has driven a number of global benchmarking studies to better understand leading edge procurement trends, and speaks frequently at industry events.
10:00 Coffee And Networking Break
10:30 Challenges In Sourcing For Complex Production In
Cost Competitive Countries
- Key learnings from an organizational change process on the path of procurement outsourcing
- Following up on strategic goals for high complexity product sourcing
- Reallocating technical competence
- Establishing Sourcing Centres and production in CCC to create cost effective sourcing
Erik Hansen, Global Sourcing Manager, Moulding Division, Disa Industries (Denmark). Erik has 15 years of experience in relocating sourcing to CCC in different tyoes of industries, including Oil, Iron Mongers, And now Foundry Industries. Besides leading the purchasing team in the Head office of the Moulding Division in Denmark, Erik Hansen is also part of a Global Sourcing Committee responsible for implementing a sourcing strategy utilizing DISA’s representation with production facilities in Czech Republic, India and China.
11:15 Achieving Higher Level Development Of Procurement
Operations In Low Cost Countries
- Identify prospect future strategic suppliers in new markets and develop successful sustainable long term partnerships
- Monitor supplier performance through strategic SRM systems to determine value added by your suppliers
- Achieve sustainable development by boosting innovation incentives
Rune Magnusson, Vice President Operations Purchasing, Atlas
Copco Construction Tools (Sweden). Rune has more than 10 years of
experience of leading purchasing positions across industries with a
background in companies such as Sandvik and KONE. He is currently
responsible for the purchasing and logistics strategies for Atlas Copco Construction Tools Division with production sites in Germany,
Sweden, India, Bulgaria and China. His main target for the coming
years is to reduce cost structure for purchased materials through
global sourcing.
12:15 End Of Conference
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