Experience the value of professional sparring

Your role in procurement is multi-faceted – you need to make sure the right products are purchased, in the right quantities, at the right price and at the right time. It requires constant thought and a focus on assessing how best to optimize the value-adding functions of the business. At the same time, you need to master the ability to build and maintain key partnership relationships, as well as creating a pervasive trust, as you assist the business in ensuring that monetary resources are managed wisely. If you work in procurement, you are undeniably an important player for the company.

Sometimes you can get stuck in the same thoughts, considerations and routines – most people know this. For this reason, it can make sense to seek advice and sparring from others, which can ultimately help to renew motivation for your daily work.

We focus on the challenges that you have Top of Mind, together with the chair our members select and prioritize the topics they want to deep-dive into during the five-yearly half-day meetings.

Sample topics include:

• Deploying and extracting real benefits from e-procurement software and solutions
• Measuring value of effective cost reduction and risk management
• How to effectively measure and articulate value concerning risk and quality
• How to get and leverage the right price and market data
• Installing project management skills for procurement professionals
• Designing and leading (international) teams and controlling (international) spend
• Relative positioning of direct vs indirect procurement and achieving management buy in
• Supply chain agility
• Digitalisation -Transformation, Profiles & Skills
• Procurement Traning & Upskilling
• Enhancing Supply Chain capabilities
• Adapting and investing in new technology
• Workforce Management
• Effective Remote Working
• Management buy-in and trust
• Business Partnering
• Procurement Measurement & Metrics
• ERP Platform Renewal etc…