Covering how E2E Value Stream Mapping approach has been applied in Calyx, enabling identification of key pain points, improved understanding of the end to end process and driving a more collaborative approach.

• How can implementing VSM help improve processes and business decisions?
• What data sets are vital to ensure that the correct outcomes are made?
• How can culture be improved via this procedure?

Asana’s analysis of over 13,000 employees found that misalignment and disengagement, fuelled by rising burnout and a lack of clarity at work, presents an urgent challenge to businesses today. After a year of disruption, Asana’s General Manager, EMEA Simon O’Kane will provide valuable advice for organisations that want to learn from recent challenges and begin building more resilient, adaptable, and engaging workplaces that will drive operational excellence.

Sustainable procurement is the practice of incorporating sustainability into an organisation’s procurement processes and procedures, in addition to traditional price and quality considerations. In this session, award-winning sustainability and supply chain software company, Greenstone, provides an introduction to sustainable procurement and some practical tips on how to integrate sustainability into procurement processes.

IDG’s 2020 Cloud Computing survey revealed that strategic cloud migration is a top CIO priority. However, IT leaders also report they’re facing challenges in public cloud adoption. In this webinar, Rob Duffy, Head of Migration Practice at Cloudreach, and Barnaby Jeans, Senior Partner Development Manager at Microsoft join IDG to examine why and how companies should approach cloud migration to meet business objectives.

During the past 18 months we have witnessed how quickly supply chains can be disrupted in the most unexpected ways. But business disruption doesn’t have to mean business disaster.

Whether it’s minor supply chain hiccups, competitor activity, or global events, many organizations can learn how to turn these situations to their advantage and even find new ways to disrupt the markets in which they operate.

Join Oliver Wight Partner, Neil Hill as he explains how to exploit uncertainty and effectively manage risk. Neil will be exploring the role of End to End Supply Chain Planning and Integrated Business Planning in creating business resilience.

1. The focus, pace and perceived value of procurement is changing

2. More investments are needed to speed up the digitalization of strategic sourcing

3. Using AI to leverage supplier data and supplier search will lead to more innovation, increased resilience and better corporate sustainability

• How can strategic decisions continue to elevate the profile of procurement in 2021 and beyond?
• How can procurement skills be developed to meet the current challenges in procurement?

• How can OPEX act as a tool to stimulate revenue and strategic growth?
• What investments help extend top line growth?
• How does OPEX relate to the service sector and customer experience?

• How can you motivate your team for lifelong learning?
• How can you implement a lifelong learning process in your procurement (supply chain) organization?
• How can technology support lifelong learning for each team member?

• There’s nothing new but can Process Intelligence help us get there more quickly?
• What are the key challenges of implementing process excellence at scale?
• Top down or bottoms up – which approach works best?

Understand how Sales and Operational Planning helps streamline Bosch’s Supply Chain with this presentation by Jose Morelli

• How can more autonomy and bold decision making be given to smaller teams?
• Assessing the impact of COVID: how can a new culture be implemented during a global pandemic?
• Understanding the successes and failures in creating a new culture

• How can a complex and regulated process, such as clinical drug development, be optimised at scale?
• What structures and ways of working can allow rapid process improvement and lay the foundations for implementation?
• The role of senior leadership in the journey from a functional-based to process-led organisation

The Covid-19 pandemic has received a lot of negative media attention around problems securing sufficient usable PPE. This talk explains the steps taken by UK policing to manage those risks to ensure that we could continue to protect the public.
By exerting as much control as possible on the demand side and working pragmatically with the supply side, policing did not have supply shortages at the “”front line.”” This is how we built, deployed and managed our response.

• How can implementing an S&OP process boost sales and efficiency?
• How can poor planning processes, high inventory and low service levels be reduced? Is there a recipe for success when looking to mitigate these issues?
• What lessons have been learnt from implementing the S&OP business plan?”

• Highlight the integration of new practices: the importance of new innovations
• Measure and track the economic value of these transformation initiatives
• What have been the common problems of rolling out a new strategy?

• Customer journey mapping – what it is and what it isn’t
• Developing a customer journey atlas and individual journeys
• Pain & gain points and the customer emotional journey
• Implementing improvements and measuring success

• Assessing the risks and opportunities Brexit & Covid have had for the Procurement & Supply Chain profession
• What do the challenges and opportunities presented by the recent challenges mean for the future of Procurement & Supply Chain?
• What do procurement professionals and leaders need to learn and do to be ready for future challenges?

• Understand the modern risks in a supply chain
• Business & supply chain adaptability to the changing world – Capitalising on opportunities
• supply chain Resilience – Creating a robust yet flexible supply chain

Army bomb disposal units in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Description: British Army bomb disposal units in Iraq and Afghanistan did not receive training in Lean, Six Sigma, or any other process improvement methodology. However, they continuously improved their processes and equipment, often on an hourly basis. The lack in improvement methodology was more than compensated for by a very active continuous improvement mindset and extreme levels of delegation.

This need for continuous improvement was driven by the knowledge that the enemy (eg Jaysh al-Mahdi, Al-Qaeda, the Taliban) were always watching what we did and improving their tactics (processes) and bombs (equipment) to defeat us. Quite literally, if we couldn’t iterate improvements faster than the enemy, people would probably die.

Are you exposed to commodities?
Many companies has been completely surprised by volatile and increasing commodity prices lately. Sever cost or lost profits.
The presentation will give you insight of setting up and ensuring good strategies to handle supplier, contract and analysing commodity markets from a procurement perspective.

• Understand how to create a process capable of driving change and developing skills
• How can organisations integrate new initiatives by analysing different data sets?
• What are the key stages of process identification, optimisation and evaluation?

Learn how to better measure their capabilities against your needs through via SRM. Understand how to ensure supplier commitment to quality standards. Increase governance with greater control over policies, processes and procedures . How can supplier communication and collaboration be significantly improved?

Supply chains have been under immense pressure over the past year as supply chain professionals navigate a multitude of issues and demands. Companies are navigating a global health pandemic, multiple environmental disasters, and economic complexities across the globe as they try to supply products to their customers. Navigating these issues and pressures can be complex and can present new and heightened risks to your company. This presentation will cover tips and strategies for managing pressures and tackling some of these risks to achieve the desired results for your company.

• An overview of current issues facing supply chains today
• Tips for managing supply chain pressures
• Strategies for mitigating risks presented by supply chain issues and pressures