From the battle of forms to a fully automated contract generation enhanced by Artificial Intelligence. This presentation will fill the gaps between “from” and to the “to” and share Shell experience in this journey.

• Digital signatures
• Digitalization of contract creation: Contract Authoring
• Contract Discovery
• New technologies: What are the use cases in contracting?

Due to many technologies like big data & Internet of things coming to maturity in parallel a perfect storm is created that will impact fundamentally how procurement is done and the skills need to do it

• What is the fuzz about
• Why is this important now
• How can we visualize what is going on
• What are the impacts
• What are the opportunities

How to set up workable supplier relationship model

• Criteria for SRM
• Understanding your supplier
• Turn supplier rivalry into opportunity
• Partnership – joint improvement initiatives

One organization with several independent entities in different countries. How to achieve synergy effect and how to organize cross-border tenders?

• Standardization of procurement functions in different countries
• Spend analysis, data quality, harmonizing the specification
• Collective tenders