Conference Day One: August 26th 2008

09:00 Chairperson’s Welcome And Opening Address

09:15 Design A High Impact Consolidated Global Procurement Strategy Across Your Organization To Unite Strengths And Build Competitive Advantage

Keynote Address

• Pool organizational strengths and benefit from economies of scale
• Establish a co-ordinated approach to strategic procurement to establish it as a vital value creation tool
• Benchmark organizational and financial efforts with strategic procurement KPI:s: number of suppliers, SRM, technical innovation, etc.

Bill Knittle, Global Procurement Director, Refining and Marketing, BP (UK). Bill Knittle leads a global team that has the responsibilities to develop internal and external procurement capabilities and deploy them across a very diverse BP set of business models within the Process Manufacturing, Fast Moving Goods, and Marketing operations. He has led strategic procurement supply-chain management transformation and technology solution integration initiatives in the energy, oil and gas, process manufacturing, logistics, retail, financial, and petrochemicals industries. He helps clients maximize the value of their operational strategies through world class supply market sector strategy development and implementation.He has a led a number of global industry committees around supply chain and procurement best practices development and deployment.

10:00 Identifying Best Practices And Implementing Common Procurement Processes Across Business Units

• Improving efficiency in a global sourcing organization
• Successfully measuring and following up key sourcing processes
• Working closely with R&D and product management to influence final product

Mikael Wikström, Sourcing Director PBU Open Platform, Sony Ericsson (Sweden). Mikael heads the purchasing division of a business unit within Sony Ericsson, developing mobile phones in Kista, Beijing and Tokyo. He is also the process owner for project sourcing process. Previous experiences include strategic procurement responsibilities at SAAB Aircraft, Ericsson and Sony Ericsson as well as indirect purchasing and outsourcing at AstraZeneca.

11:30 Transforming The Internal Procurement Business Units Into A Seperate Profit Center

• Advantages and challenges of organising into a profit centre with own profit responbilility
• Ensuring cost reductions stay within the company through transfer pricing models
• Designing the right performance measures to ensure long term profitability

Martin Berg, Director, Procurement Design & Solutions, NCC Construction Denmark A/S (Denmark). Martin Berg has been with NCC since 2004. Prior to his current position he was a management consultant at A.T. Kearney working primarily on strategic sourcing assignments with global clients in Europe and the US. Martin holds a M.Sc. in economics and is currently finalizing his executive MBA.

12:15 Infusing Clear Commercial Goals In The Procurement Organization To Align Strategies With The Corporate Business Model

• Incorporate commercial thinking and action into your procurement organization to avoid being seen as a support function
• Ensure that your Purchasing function is adding value to the organization by measuring your input to the bottom line

Mats Lundin, Sourcing Manager, Telia Sonera (Sweden).

14:00 Managing The Ongoing Challenge Of Responsible Purchasing

• What are the key cornerstones and enablers of responsible purchasing?
• How is responsible purchasing impacting today’s procurement operations?
• What skills are needed to take on responsible purchasing?

Representative from European Institute of Purchasing Management (UK). The EIPM research center mission is to provide companies with leading edge research in purchasing and supply chain management, in order to increase their ability in managing successfully in the face of increasingly complex markets, feeding at the same the evolution of the academic thought in those areas and our teaching activities with the final objective to translate research into action.

15:00 Ensuring That Your Procurement Organization Is An Attractive And Sustainable Career Path

Panel Discussion

• Finding the right channels to attract the best human capital to your Procurement organization
• Develop key people management functions and competency development processes to drive team performance
• Implementing strategic succession planning to ensure a sustainable talent pipeline
• Discuss your talent management challenges and strategies with fellow Nordic procurement professionals

15:45 Ensuring Corporate Social Responsibility Across Your International Purchasing Supply Chain

Keynote Address

• Bringing up CSR on the strategic procurement agenda to ensure sustainable growth
• Establishing suitable guidelines for CSR in your supply chain and ensure effective follow up processes
• Work together with suppliers to create an open dialogue and increased transparency

Dr. Uwe Schulte, Vice President Global Supplier Relations, Unilever (Switzerland). Uwe Schulte has worked with Unilever since 1980, with responsibilities in Product Development, Process Development and Quality Assurance. He has in-depth experience from the supply chain field, and since 2005 he has been Vice President for Global Supply Management.

16:30 Develop Your Procurement Function From Cost-Center To A Value-Generator: Driving Margins In A Saturated Market

• Establish a co-coordinated board room approach to Strategic
• Purchasing, creating a Value Creation Tool
• Optimising your purchasing activities to increase cost-efficiency
• Decrease total spend of purchasing through the Power of Negotiation during and after the procurement

Anders Sjöholm, CEO, Procure IT Right AB (Sweden).

17:15 Chairman’s Closing And End Of Day 1

A great opportunity to mingle with fellow senior Procurement Professionals.

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