Members of board, C-level, Senior/Global Vice Presidents, Directors, Heads of departments from the banking, pharma, chemical/petrochemical, automotive, telecom, retail and hospitality industries involved in:
11th Annual Global Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Summit
13 – 14 September 2023 | MAXX by Steigenberger Vienna
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CONFERENCE TOPICS 2023
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- Sustainable procurement & ESG improvements
- Economic recession: Is your company ready?
- Procurement talent management: How to build a high-performance team?
- Transforming the business by putting suppliers at the core
- War in Ukraine, natural disasters, and new technologies: What is the solution to supply chain disruption?
- Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) driving value creation: Incorporating ESG in deals
- Preventing an ineffective collaboration – Top risk-management strategy
- What does the future hold for procurement & sourcing?
Designed for
- Procurement
- Spend Procurement
- Direct Procurement
- Indirect Procurement
- Global Procurement
- Category
- Sourcing
- Global Sourcing
- Strategic Sourcing
- Inventory Management
- Demand Planning
- Production Planning
- Replenishment
- Supply chain
- Global Supplier Management
- Supplier development
- Purchasing
- Operations
- Manufacturing operations
- Quality Assurance
- Operational Excellence
- Process Improvement
- Materials
- Logistics
- Warehousing
- Category Acquisition
- Contract & Administration
- Strategic Planning

Paul Walker
Group Procurement Director
TUI Group
CASE STUDY
ESG in Procurement: Diverse, Sustainable and Ethical Sourcing
Paul will share his insights on how to define your environmental, social and governance metrics and place them at the heart of your sourcing strategy to demonstrate its value.
- Diverse Sourcing – Considering the right factors when inviting suppliers to tender
- Sustainable Sourcing – Procuring the right things to meet our needs
- Ethical Sourcing – Procuring what we need from the right sources in the right way
CASE STUDY
Developing a Net Zero Supply Chain
CBRE, a service-based company and service-focused supply chain, has been on a journey to decarbonise its supply chain from two aspects, moving from using emission factors to actual/primary data and supplier engagements.
- Understanding where to start, developing baselines and hot spot analysis of GHG emissions in a supply chain
- Leveraging partners for sustainability assessments and carbon accounting
- Moving from emission factors to primary data
- Challenges in supplier engagements

Mat Langley
Global Procurement Head, ESG
CBRE

Arda Polat
Procurement Director
TEB
CASE STUDY
Procurement in the Time of Crisis
Effective procurement in the time of crisis such as pandemic, earthquake and others.
- Planning and organisation
- Supplier management
- Approvals and Authorisation
- Action Follow-up and Reportings
CASE STUDY
Response Is Not a Strategy –the Strategic Diamond Is Our Answer to Sense and Steer Our Global Supply Chain
In a world with cognitive overload and evolving expectations, “sense, shift and steer” becomes a key element of creating the supply chain of the future. We created the Strategic Diamond, a model allowing us to continuously develop from rigid into flexible structures, by connecting market and strategy. Our case study will deliver you an insight into our journey to deal with the uncertainties as a new normal and how we adopt conceptual to disruption.
- Our Supply Chain Vision
- A rigid strategy most likely fails
- The strategic diamond creates the ecosystem for the future
- 3 examples: Future of Work, Substantivities, Transformation Resilient to Robust

Alexander Tschentscher
Head of Supply Chain & Logistic Strategy
Siemens
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