ProcureCon 2008 Topic Focus

Procurement & Finance Spend Management:

• To release capital
• Work collaboratively with finance and distribution partners including:
• Centralized procure-to-pay
• Terms management
• TCO (total cost of ownership)

Talent & Knowledge Management:

• Recruiting and retaining talent in the global and domestic supply chain
• Collaborating with universities to match real-life skill-set needs
• Capturing the knowledge of your aging workforce

SRM – Generating True Supplier Value through:

• Value engineering & NPD – concurrent engineering with key suppliers
• Dual accountability between buyer and supplier
• Supplier number reduction
• IP protection and supply risk mitigation

Short and long-term effect of recession:

• Actions companies are undertaking to curb the downturn consequences
• Counter inflation techniques

Emerging Market Developments & Globalization:

• Global Supplier ID and quality assurance
• Talent management in emerging markets
• Current and future emerging market developments (Pacific Rim, Eastern Europe, Africa, Mexico)
• Supply sustainability & contingency planning
• Serving local markets locally/Distribution and logistics planning

Advanced automation and outsourcing:

• BPO within the procurement function
• Moving from a P2P to source-to-pay (S2P) model
• M&A: capturing the value of the deal
• Developments in the outsourcing market

The ‘last frontier’ in Indirect Procurement:

• Bringing professional services spend under management (e.g. banking, legal, auditing, marketing, etc.)
• Indirect organizational structure alternatives
• Indirect value engineering
• Creating indirect categories