Sourcing Outlook

Increase top line growth and reduce bottom line costs

Danish Crown TD

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Join either of the two Theme Discussions hosted by Magdalena and Rasmus at Danish Crown. This session is for you being interested in using eAuctions to help develop strategic procurement and negotiations!

Benchmark: Adopting e-auctions as a strategic procurement game changer!

As procurement organizations grow and develop throughout their maturity journey the need for strengthening the toolbox surrounding sourcing and negotiations increases. At Danish Crown, we have just embarked on a journey to strengthen our strategic toolbox by investing in our capabilities to drive negotiations through e-auctions. We truly believe that e-auctions will be a strong lever to secure future value creation and we are certain that we are not alone with this perspective. Therefore, we would like to invite you in for a benchmark session where we can share perspectives on e-auctions as a negotiation concept and tool, experiences or considerations on similar journeys, and how to successfully adopt e-auctions as a game changer for the procurement deliverables!

Rasmus and Magdalena

This session is for you who are also on journey to develop your sourcing and tender processes through eAuctions. You who are also looking to build a best-in-class toolbox and avoid making common mistakes.

Discuss:

  • Pulse check: What is your experiences or viewpoint on e-auctions?
  • What does it take to make it a successful journey to adopt e-auctions into the sourcing process?
  • How to approach category complexity when using e-auctions?
  • Based on your experiences and reflections, what is the Do’s and Don’t’s when adopting the use of e-auctions?

Chr Hansen TD

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We talk so much about it but what does it actually mean to a procurement organization? This session is a benchmark session where you draw from each others experiences!

How are you preparing for Scope 3 in your corporate sustainability transformation?

Winning the marathon to save the planet is not a one company nor one function job. Collaborating across organizations and industries will be a must. Where are you on your journey and what actions are you taking?
Scope 1 is direct emissions. Scope 2 is emissions associated with a company’s purchased energy such as electricity. Scope 3 is everything else, such as building materials, food, travel, even waste. It’s the emissions associated with all the goods and services that companies buy. ”For most organizations, including government agencies and universities, the Scope 3 footprint is much larger than the operational footprint.” (Anastasia O’Rourke)

We see companies setting “net-zero” or science-based targets to reduce their emissions around the world and during this session you will come together to discuss what this, other targets and Scope 3 mean and will mean to procurement organizations. Emissions might be further down in the supply chain where you don’t have direct contact with the supplier. How do you gain control and how do you prioritize?

Discuss;

  • Where are you on your sustainability journey – are you at Scope 3 yet?
  • How do you prioritize efforts across your purchase volume and category spread?
  • Are you using input-output lifecycle assessments and average emissions by sector or make calculation with real data from suppliers or providers — or both?
  • What have your climate and CSR strategies meant to procurement to date?
  • How are you coming together and collaborating with other large buyers?

René Wienmann | CPO Head of Global Sourcing | Chr.Hansen

Mission Insight Digital Procurement

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Join an insightful session open to all in the main room. In the afternoon you can join the Theme Discussion (round table discussion) led by René.

To what extent is digitization changing spend management and value realization in procurement?

Do you agree on the Deloitte explanation of Digital Procurement? ”Digital procurement is the application of disruptive technologies that enable Strategic Sourcing (S2C) to become predictive, Transactional Procurement (P2P) to become automated, and Supplier Risk Management (SRM) to become proactive.” Know your data and automate as much as is possible. Even though technologies such as RPA, AI and Machine Learning have been around for a while – supply chain and procurement could be more digitized. We talk a lot about Digital Procurement – but what does that actually mean to organizations? Some are de-centralized, some centralized, have numerous ERPs, face cultural differences, have lack of organizational buy in, inefficient data management, budget concerns and more affecting strategy success.

During this session we will learn from different industries and how they perceive digital procurement developments.

We’ll discuss;

  • How far do you think digitizing procurement can go in a large organization?
  • Where is your organization on that journey?
  • How have you organized digitization initiatives?
  • Give an example of a specific problem digitizing have solved in your organization
  • What have been key to succeeding with your digitization strategies to date?
  • Are you using one solution, one way to digitize and automate all spend categories?
  • What is your focus ahead?

René Wienmann | CPO Head of Global Sourcing | Chr.Hansen

QAD Allocation TD

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Join a session comparing how far digitization in direct spend has really come.

Discuss:

If more than 50% of your spend and 100% of your quality depends on your direct suppliers…

How far have manufacturing companies come digitizing direct purchasing and supplier quality?

On paper direct purchasing and all its spend categories are run in an optimal way. Supplier qualification and classification is streamlined, contract management flawless and supplier development and sourcing strategies without glitches. Spend being completely under control. Reality however shows that also within direct purchasing data is often scattered. Making efficient Rfx processes, supplier collaboration, cost reduction, contract usage and quality follow up really hard. Not to mention challenges from VUCA markets (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity & Ambiguity) – what insights do you have? During this session you can discuss ways of managing production material supply and supplier data centrally.

Learn about and discuss;

  • How digitized and centrally accessible is your supply data today?
  • In what ways are you streamlining Rfx processes, using eAuctions and awarding contracts? And what about supplier quality processes post award and post SOP?
  • How can cross-functional award decisions be made more efficient?
  • To what extent can you communicate supplier performance (not the least in the past years volatile markets) internally and externally and derive activities?