• 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 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?

• 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

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.

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.

• Gain key insights from Asana’s Anatomy of Work Index, a study that surveyed over 13,000 knowledge workers
• Understand the challenges that the hybrid workplace poses to modern organisations
• Learn how to create clarity around complex processes and drive operational excellence

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.

• Learn how to promote innovative minds and how to prioritize and scale innovation initiative
• How can start-up ecosystems have to access promising technology and new business models?
• When to apply which innovation discipline such as entrepreneurship, pilots, corporate ventures or investments

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.

• 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?

• Understand how operations agility is key to maintain business resilience
• Learn how to overcome sudden demand and supply-side shocks
• How have procurement strategies changes on account of COVID?
• What lessons can be applied to processes going beyond 2020?

DS Smith recently ran a Procurement Transformation Programme in order to become a World Class Procurement function to support the group’s business plans. The case study will explain the approach taken and aim to be a useful guide for anyone considering a large change programme.

Innocent drinks have recently invested over $300m into building a new factory based in Rotterdam. It is set to be the world’s most sustainable factory in the world, offsetting its entire CO2 output. In this presentation, Chris will be discuss the ways in which the factory and wider supply chain has been created with environmental issues at the very heart of the discussion making.

A strategic perspective on sustainable procurement from Shaun McCarthy OBE based on his engagement with the sustainable procurement agenda for more than 15 years. He will address the business drivers, the need to facilitate a competitive supply chain to prevent excessive costs and to manage supplier performance and relationships.