Conference Day One - 30 October 2011
08:30 AM - 08:40 AM - Chairman's Opening Remarks
08:40 AM - 09:20 AM - Delivering Corporate ‘Sustainable and Responsible Procurement’ (SRP) Strategies
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Carl Jansma Director - Global Strategic Procurement DP World UAE |
All employees involved in Strategic Procurement and Supply Chain activities can make a significant contribution to their organizations’ ‘SRP’ goals and measurable targets of sustainable development and efficient resource usage by ensuring their suppliers and/or contractors continue to achieve optimum Social, Environmental and Ethical performance before, during and after each Strategic Sourcing process. This presentation delivers ‘tips and hints’ to deliver Corporate ‘Sustainable and Responsible Procurement’ strategies which take into account the following:
- Value For Money - quality, fitness for purpose, whole-of-life costs;
- Reducing usage, consumption and wastage,
- Life cycle impacts of products;
- Environmental aspects; and
- Social aspects – sustainable supply chains and the effects of issues such as labor conditions, child labor provision, occupational health and safety and compliance with relevant industrial and environmental regulations.
09:20 AM - 10:00 AM - The role of Procurement in Strategic Supply Chain Management
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Kris Brusselmans Business Development Director Innova Supply Chain UAE |
Global Supply Chains are evolving at a very rapid pace and become increasingly more complex. What is the value of Supply Chain Management, what are the value drivers, how important is Supply Chain Visibility and how to influence the bottom line? What is the role and the leverage of the Procurement organisation in managing value throughout the Supply Chain? We will endeavour to answer these questions on how companies deal with this.
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM - Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:10 AM - Panel Discussion - Supplier Relationship Management
Moderator
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Dr. Richard Russill International Speaker, Author & Consultant R C Russill & Company UK |
Panelists
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Carl Jansma Director - Global Strategic Procurement DP World UAE |
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Lukasz Mazurowski Managing Partner PROFITIA Poland |
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Art Brunton Managing Director Supply Synergies UAE |
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Vanessa Zambas CEO procurementPlus UAE |
11:10 AM - 11:50 AM - From Spenders to Spend Managers
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Abdul Kadir Gaya SVP-Head of Centralized Procurement Mashreq Bank UAE |
11:50 AM - 12:30 PM -New ways of thinking in procurement
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Gary Gribben eProcurement Project Manager Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) Bahrain |
- Collaboration between companies to improve supply chain, improve performance and reduce costs
- Social responsibility focused on long term business benefits
- Sustainable procurement
- Our responsibility for social, economic and environmental custodianship of the region in which we live.
The presentation will bring new ideas in collaborative procurement as a force for economic development in the region, which includes collaborative e-business solutions, cloud computing an element of social responsibility, internationalization of business practices and significant business benefits to buyers and suppliers.
12:30 PM - 01:10 PM -Case Study: "Challenges with Internal Clients as a sourcing lever"
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Lukasz Mazurowski Managing Partner PROFITIA Poland |
The case will be based on a project for a major Central European Airline with a strong focus on savings within procurement area. The project tackled several major categories and resulted in ~20% of savings achieved within 6 months of intensive analytical and organizational efforts.
01:10 PM - 02:10 PM -Lunch Break
02:10 PM - 02:50 PM - The Purchasing and Supply Chain Journey from Local to Global.
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Paul Grimes Managing Director 4 Corner General Trading LLC UAE |
Paul Grimes has been a senior operator in the food industry across the globe for over 30 years. Paul will take you through his journey of maximizing efficiencies & benefits of purchasing and supply chain in mature local markets, how he adapted these best practices and achieved success in global procurement and supply chain in over 50 countries, and then made the conversion back into less sophisticated local markets to develop industry leadership in the Middle East.
02:50 PM - 03:30 PM - Spend Management
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Heather Drewery Director Supply Synergies UAE |
Why is it important that organisations have good spend management solutions?
- Managers and their organisations can do their jobs more effectively
- Frees up managers time to do higher value activities
- Improves organisations relationship with their suppliers and increases the value from the relationship
- Helps Managers deliver major savings for their organisations
Demonstration of spend management solution which provides attendees with the opportunity to experience best-in-class technology not currently used in MENA. This will help professional development and grow their awareness of the types of solutions available.
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM - Coffee
04:00 PM - End of Day One
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