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Roima Intelligence’s mission is to keep European industry competitive through automation and digitalization.

With 30 years’ experience of boosting the processes of technology and food and beverage industries, we develop the product management, enterprise resource planning, operations management, machine vision and logistics of companies. Our customers include Fastems, Marel, Patria, Valmet Automotive and 300 other growth-driven companies.

Our 260 professionals work in Finland, Sweden and in the Netherlands

Pär Jacobson | Head of Global Procurement Strategy & Business Office | Volvo Cars

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Welcome Volvo Cars to Sourcing Outlook 2019

How many of you face markets in change? The need to adapt to new ways of working, to customer desires you need to adapt to, to technology development you cannot ignore and to a world where it is not a “nice thing” to be sustainable in every aspect but a must. EBG | Network are thrilled to welcome Pär Jacobson, Head of Global Procurement Strategy & Business Office at Volvo Cars to Sourcing Outlook 2019.

On October 10th in Stockholm, the day begin like Source 2 Pay Summit 2019 ended – with Volvo Cars sharing how their business development affect how they choose to make strategies in a changing world come true.

It is one thing saying you need to change – a completely different thing making it come true – over time. That is why Sourcing Outlook have the framing Strategy | Operations | Governance – to highlight the need for an end to end perspective, including the people and processes affected by strategies.

At Sourcing Outlook the number 1 questions is – “How do you make strategies a reality?”.

Keynote introduction

Pär will kick off the day with a keynote, content below. There is a lot to share – but in particular how the changes Volvo Cars face affect sourcing and procurement as a structure, strategy, function and profession.

Keynote: How do you manage and develop procurement under constant change?

With a market in transition and a business in change – Volvo Car has been, are and will be re-considering how to become increasingly agile. Agile in terms of how to collaborate and innovate together with suppliers, how to increasingly digitise and become more data driven and agile in terms of how to develop needed competences accordingly. All of which done with sustainable mobility in the core of every decision. To mention one aspect – in 2025, 50% of sales shall consist of electronic vehicles. During this session you will get a 360 view over how Volvo Cars are structuring sourcing and procurement for the future.

  • How has Volvo Cars procurement structures and strategies changed?
  • What does the shift in company focus mean for ways to organise and competences needed?
  • How is digitalisation and data driven decisions incorporated into procurement development?
  • In what ways are sustainability targets and market demands affecting business operations?

Followed by the much appreciated round table discussions – Theme Discussions – where You can sit down and learn from both the moderator – Pär – and peer joining the discussion. Those two sessions (you can choose all in all four Theme Discussions during the day) focus on:

How do you structure procurement in an agile way?

Understanding procurement need to become more agile – as in allocating and focusing resources where best needed – is easier said than done. Strategic sourcing and category management have been around a long time – how does analytics capabilities, the ability to manage large sets of data, rapid decision making skills and an outcome based and sustainable way of collaborating with suppliers fit into older ways of working? In this session you can discuss and compare ways of organizing sourcing strategies and procurement operations.

  • What roles do category managers need to take in a more agile and data driven organization?
  • In what ways do procurement need to become more value driven?
  • How can you ensure all actions taken follow a sustainability strategy?
  • How can you estimate if the actions you take will have the desired effect?

About Pär Jacobson

Pär is a passionate leader who just recently gave an appreciated presentation about the sustainability work Volvo Cars are doing that is quite unique. Today his responsibilities include leading a global team responsible for:
– Strategy and Business Development
– Competence Development
– Digitalization and Application Management
– Process and Quality Management
– Sustainability and Risk Management
– Legal and Contract Management

Prior to working at Volvo Cars, Pär has a background from McKinsey & Company, Haldex, Applied Value and SAAB Automotive to mention some experiences.

About Volvo Cars

Do you know be basics about Volvo Cars? Probably. If not, take a look at the bottom. But did you know the below? Picked from the Volvo Cars corporate website.

Our 2025 business ambitions

We’re ambitious and we continually challenge ourselves. The global automotive industry is changing, and Volvo wants to lead that change – in safety, connectivity, electrification and autonomous drive technology. Rather than just building and selling premium cars, we will provide our customers with the freedom to move in a personal, sustainable and safe way.

By the middle of the next decade, we expect to generate half of all sales annually from fully electric cars, one third of all cars sold to be autonomous driving cars, and half of all car sales to come through our subscription service.

50%

of all sales annualy from fully electric cars

1/3

of all cars to be autonomous driving cars

50%

of all cars to come from our subscription service

Volvo Cars aims to become a global and diversified mobility service provider. This means new models of car ownership and access, and new attractive services whenever and wherever customers want it. We want to come closer to our customers, so we’re aiming for more than five million direct consumer relationships by the middle of the next decade, creating new sources of recurring revenue.

And we’re aiming to do all this while generating premium-level profitability, driven by increased revenue across all three global sales regions and a broader range of cars, services and customers.

Volvo Cars in figures

  • 642K Cars sold in 2018
  • 43K Average number of employees
  • 2.3K Dealers globally
  • 14.2bn 2018 operating profit (bnSEK)

Reserve you ticket today!

Sourcing Outlook is not a fair and only open for a limited number of persons. Why? EBG want as many of you as is possible to be able to meet and learn from each other! Make sure to reserve your seat today, lowest possible investment until August 15th.

Sourcing Outlook 2018

Christian Herge | VP Global Indirect Purchasing | Electrolux

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What would you do if you knew your organization need to speed up from idea to execution? From R&D to market readiness to delivery to and communication with the end customer? What would it mean for your sourcing and procurement strategies and operations if you knew you had to re-think your end to end strategies, operations and ways to govern them?

EBG | Network give a warm welcome to Christian Herge, VP Global Indirect Purchasing at Electrolux joining Sourcing Outlook 2019 on October 10th in Stockholm.

Christian is joining us sharing how Electrolux is changing globally and what implications that have and will have on sourcing and procurement as a strategy, structure, function, process and profession. He will share how they are changing not only indirect procurement but also direct and in what ways the strategies differ.

You do not want to miss this opportunity! Christian will do closed door presentations followed by an open discussion – what EBG call a mixed Focus Session and Theme Discussion.

Closed door Focused Theme Discussion

Below is the topic Christian will share and discuss. The beauty lies in the full circle strategy – operation – governance aspect. Even though we will be able to follow up on the progress in a few years, a lot is already under way.

From Sourcing Outlook 2018

How can procurement act to adapt and align with a changing external world?

Your organization too probably need to face a changing market and external world, adapt to what is and what will be and to align with both internal and external stakeholders. Electrolux is in the midst of rearranging several aspects of how to organize to meet those changes and it is affecting both direct and indirect purchasing. What was handled as several business units will now be one, what used to be managed regionally may now be managed globally, what may have been an analogue interface towards stakeholders will now be digital. Purchasing will be globalized and the teams that are created ahead will have direct collaboration with R&D, Engineering and other internal stakeholders. Learn from the journey Electrolux is on and compare with your plans for the future.

  • How is Electrolux re-organizing its local, regional and global sourcing and procurement strategies?
  • What will the re-organization mean for previous category teams and strategies?
  • How has direct and indirect purchasing changed towards value based sourcing the past years?
  • Is what ways are the skill-sets ahead different from before?

About Christian Herge

Christian has an extensive background from within Electrolux. Change management responsibility, portfolio director, product planning, program office director to name some areas he has been heading. Before Electrolux, Christian worked for several years at McKinsey & Company.

About Electrolux

Through the Electrolux brands, including Electrolux, AEG, Anova, Frigidaire, Westinghouse and Zanussi, the company sell more than 60 million household and professional products in more than 150 markets every year.

Electrolux has been doing business since 1919. The headquarters are located in Stockholm, Sweden, and the Electrolux share ELUXb is listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm.

As per February 1st 2019, Electrolux is structured into five business areas. There are four regional consumer-focused business areas and one global business area:

  • Europe
  • North America
  • Latin America
  • Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa
  • Professional Products

Group functions include Finance, Legal Affairs, Consumer Experiences (product and ownership experience innovation, design and marketing), Global Operations (manufacturing, purchasing, supply chain, product architecture and quality), IT, Human Resources and Communications.

The business model

From Electrolux group website “Business Model for Best-in-Class Consumer Experiences”

To achieve our purpose and drive profitable growth, Electrolux uses a business model which focuses on creating Best-in-Class Consumer Experiences. This is supported by a strong foundation of Operational Excellence and Talent & Teamship, as well as three important transformational drivers.

electroluxgroup.com

Register today

Sourcing Outlook is held for the third time in October. The aim to ensure as many as is possible to meet face to face. To have informal conversations that make an impact. That give You who join us insights from different industries. EBG focus on the What and How to – turning visions into concrete action plans. Registration is open and you will be offered to choose Theme Discussions in advance ensuring you a seat where you most want it.

Anne-Sophie Ravnholt Frandsen |Director, Head of Sourcing Development & Analytics | Novozymes

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Data is the new gold. Understanding where to push, where to pull and how to progress ahead. Using data to communicate, to visualize a potential and to highlight risks. But – data is also everywhere, sit in different systems, is managed by different functions and even classified different between organizations within a company. So how can you ensure you are able to use data as is possible?

EBG | Network are happy to welcome Anne-Sophie Ravnholt Frandsen, Director, Head of Sourcing Development & Analytics at Novozymes to Sourcing Outlook 2019. On October 10th Anne-Sophie invite You to join her Theme Discussions (round table discussions) focusing on how to create a data driven procurement organization. Sourcing Outlook is held in Stockholm for the third annual time.

Theme Discussion focus

With limited space available you can sign up to join the below discussions hosted by Anne-Sophie:

How do you create a data driven procurement organization?

Most agree data is business development gold. Both learning from historical data but not the least being able to proactively use data to make better decisions. At Novozymes, management decided to increase focus on analytics with the aim to both understand data and turn insights into actions in order to position procurement to become more strategic. Learn from their decisions and compare with your organization.

  • What does a data driven approach mean in reality?
  • How does the needs differ between direct and indirect procurement?
  • In what ways does the analytics and sourcing team co-operate with category managers to ensure value delivery?
  • How do you ensure the organization is ready to act upon data gathered, shared and communicated?

About Anne-Sophie

Anne-Sophie is an attorney at law and worked in that capacity at Novozymes for several years. In 2015, Anne-Sophie started working with strategy and development within corporate functions and was asked to head the analytics initiative where is work now. Her background give her a width and grounded view over business development.

About Novozymes

While our roots stretch back to the foundation of Novo Terapeutisk Laboratorium in 1925, our story really began in 2000 when Novo was split into three independent companies: Novo A/S, Novo Nordisk A/S, and Novozymes A/S. We already had a strong portfolio of enzymes at this point, especially for the Food & Beverages and Household Care industries.

“Our story in brief”
Novozymes fact sheet

Novozymes is the world leader in bioinnovation. Their business is industrial enzymes and microorganisms.

More than 6,000 Zymers are here to make a difference. In Science Magazine’s global Top Employer Survey, we’ve ranked top 10 for three years running. We were ranked the second best employer in 2017.

“Top global employer”

About Sourcing Outlook

For the third year, EBG | Network host Sourcing Outlook, a one day conference where sourcing and procurement professionals meet and share experiences together with experts in different areas.

What others thought in 2018

Organization level – top class! Great speakers and relevant content. Very inspiring! I have found something useful for me from each presentation.

Well selected and interested topics. Also workshops was really good with interactions. Even workshops was really good prepared. 

Well thought of setup.  In other similar networking activities the sponsors are predominant which decreases the overall experience. At SO this is well balanced.

Feedback from organizations joining Sourcing Outlook 2018
On stage presentations mixed with round table discussions

Henrik Wangeby | Purchasing Director | Stena Rederi

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Stena Rederi join Sourcing Outlook 2019

As companies become increasingly dependent on technology to support strategies, operations and ways to govern them, one may ask who best can govern IT? EBG | Network are happy to welcome Henrik Wangeby, Purchasing Director at Stena Rederi to Sourcing Outlook 2019.

On October 10th You will be able to sit down with peers and experts and learn from and share your experiences in topics they find relevant and important. This will be the third annual gathering!

How can procurement ensure IT practices are most effective?

A lot of focus and dedication is spent on finding ways to use data and technology across organizations. The IT department is at the heart of much of that work – but how can an organization ensure savings, cost control and avoided costs, license overview, vendor management development, consultants leveraged, contract visibility and control, sustainability clauses, security insights and a closer relationship with suppliers are enabled? What role can procurement have ensuring all of the above within IT? At Stena Rederi – procurement have been given the task to create a roadmap for a future way of working with IT and in the IT department ensuring the above. Discuss how and compare strategies.

  • What role and insights do procurement have in corporate wide IT related issues in your organization?
  • How can IT and procurement collaborate to ensure strategies and governance is at its best?
  • How central or de-central is IT related projects in your organization and does it matter?

The above is the round table discussion Henrik invite you to join. EBG call them Theme Discussions since they all have their individual focus areas depending on what each moderator want to share and discuss. Just like in reality, sourcing and procurement face many challenges and opportunities and during Sourcing Outlook you can pick and choose what best fit your agenda. Each discussion have limited seats so don’t wait to register which you can do here.

About Henrik

Henrik have had senior positions within procurement since the early 2000’s. He has been purchasing manager at Gustf Fagerberg and SCA Hygiene Products prior to joining Stena in 2016.

About Stena

Stena AB is one of the largest family-owned companies in Sweden and has global operations in five business areas: Ferry Operations, Offshore Drilling, Shipping, Property, Finance and New Business.

Quick facts

  • 15 000 employees
  • About 35,000 MSEK total revenue
  • Activities all over the world
  • 115 wind turbines
  • 164 vessels, including new buildings
  • 28,300 residential and commercial units