Sourcing Outlook

Increase top line growth and reduce bottom line costs

Lindahl

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Lindahl is one of Sweden’s largest law firms. The firm’s clients often come from knowledge-based, innovative and high-technology industries. In addition to the broad range of skills offered by a large firm, lawyers at Lindahl have cutting-edge expertise within intellectual property law, life sciences, dispute resolution, outsourcing and the TMT sector. The firm also has extensive experience in areas such as banking and finance, capital markets, M&A and real estate.

Lindahl has extensive international experience and a well-developed global network of leading law firms. Today, Lindahl has approximately 400 employees, of which two thirds are lawyers, working from offices in Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö, Uppsala, Örebro and Helsingborg.

Lindahl and Vested
Lindahl is a Center o Excellence in the Nordics for the Vested sourcing business model and the only law firm in Sweden to provide advice and consultation for clients aiming to enter into Vested agreements. Vested is a sourcing business model and methodology for creating highly collaborative business relationships. Vested is today used successfully by some of the largest companies in the world, including companies such as McDonalds, Procter & Gamble, and Microsoft within different areas such as BPO, IT – and FM -outsourcing.

Learn more about the firm at www.lindahl.se. To read more about Vested, visit www.lindahl.se/en/vested

Cesare Guarini | Head of Procurement – Strategy Initiatives | Clariant

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Welcome Cesare Guarini, Head of Procurement – Strategy Initiatives at Clariant! Together with Cesare and EcoVadis you will be able to sit down during round table discussions and share insights into how to incorporate sustainability into procurement as part of a strategic business development strategy.

About Clariant

As one of the world’s leading specialty chemical companies, Clariant contributes to value creation with innovative and sustainable solutions for customers from many industries. Our portfolio is designed to meet very specific needs with as much precision as possible. At the same time, our research and development is focused on addressing the key trends of our time. These include energy efficiency, renewable raw materials, emission-free mobility, and conserving finite resources. Our business units are organized into four business areas: Care Chemicals, Natural Resources, Catalysis and Plastics & Coatings.

Isabelle Kemlin | Alliance Director | CBRE

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Isabelle Kemlin is today working as Alliance Director at CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with 2016 revenues of $13.1 billion and more than 75,000 employees.

Until recently, Isabelle was the Key Account Executive at Veolia Nordic, a provider of an array of solutions related to water, waste and energy. Veolia has about 163 000 employees worldwide.

A little over a year ago Isabelle was the responsible for negotiating and closing a Vested Outsourcing Agreement, the first deal in the Nordics within the Facility Management sector. Also the first European agreement which went through a Vested Request for Partner process.

It is in this capacity and with the base in these experiences Isabelle is joining Sourcing Outlook 2017 to share her perspective on the agreement created with Telia Company. Isabelle will share her supplier perspective, what led up to deciding to move ahead with a Vested agreement, in what ways thinking and doing different was and is vital and what the lessons learned are.

Ingrid Wallgren | Global Category Manager | Telia Company

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EBG | Network are happy to welcome both the “business” and procurement on stage on October 19th. Finding ways to not only reduce cost but ad value long term is a priority for most organizations. Doing so from strategy, along operational decisions and through governance structures is a challenge and take patience.

On October 19th Ingrid and Andreas will share how they chose and choose to work closely with a key supplier in order to achieve desired outcome.

Following their key note you will be able to sit down and share ideas with Andreas and Ingrid during round table discussions called Theme Discussions.

Bureau van Dijk, a Moody’s Analytics Company

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About Bureau van Dijk, a Moody’s Analytics company
We capture and treat private company information for better decision making and increased efficiency.
Welcome to the business of certainty. We offer the most powerful comparable data resource on private companies. With extensive information on companies’ financials, risk scores, PEPs and Sanctions, and probability of default indicators, our solutions can help you manage your supplier risk, leverage your spending power and be certain of a lot more:

  • Validate your suppliers and business partners
  • Get the full picture using our extensive corporate ownership structures
  • Reduce financial risk with our standardised financial data and risk metrics

Procurement Catalyst is a risk assessment tool that enriches your supplier data with our market intelligence. Your data is blended with ours and clearly displayed for easy interpretation and a better view on your supplier portfolio. It can be completely aligned with your existing procurement processes. Make better-informed decisions with a higher level of certainty – and save a huge amount of time.

Please visit us at: www.bvdinfo.com/procurement