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As the market continues to transform, so does purchasing in Electrolux. We have been engaging in a journey with our strategic suppliers to face the new challenges together, hence to help our company to create value. Our organisation, vision & strategy in a 360º Suppliers Relationship Model (SRM).

• Electrolux, its purpose and five missions
• Purchasing organisation and contribution to value creation
• 360 SRM approach
• Our sustainability model
• Digital and innovation challenge

Large multinational buyers have often a much stronger bargaining position with their banks. Through Supply Chain Finance, suppliers can benefit from this, take costs out of the system and become financially more solid. We will tell the story of a true implementation in a global supply chain.

• The corporate strategy: How the CFO looks at supply chain and the Working Capital
• Supply Chain Finance: What is in it for suppliers and buyers
• Tackling a global Supply Chain Finance roll-out project: Dos and don’ts

Procurement team has to evolve in two key dimensions: We need to do more with less and we need to become a trusted business partner, not a price-squeezing machine. Therefore, procurement transformation is a must. It is a transformation of the mindset, of the working environment and of the focus and deliverables.

• Digitalisation of procurement processes and systems
• New procurement manager profile: From contract negotiator and price reduction to strategic business analyst
• New skills needed in procurement organisations
• Procurement owns the biggest data sources for the company: What benefit are we getting out of it?
• Blockchain in procurement

• What does talent in procurement mean
• The importance of building and developing the skills and capabilities of procurement teams to meet future demand
• What to teach to improve procurement through talent development