Kevin Ruffcorn, S2P NextGen Program Manager, Chevron
Moderator: Tim Burt, Customer Insights Manager, Procurement Leaders
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During this session delegates will hear from an innovative tech company as they showcase their platform and solution in a practical video demonstration.

Matt Palackdharry, VP of Strategy, Tealbook

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CPO CHALLENGER SERIES – DISRUPT OR BE DISRUPTED? HOW TRANSFORMATIONAL CPOS ARE ACCELERATING INNOVATION AND GROWTH

Digital technology is disrupting traditional business models, and transformational CPOs are utilizing this opportunity to reinvent the procurement function, bringing new approaches and ways of working to their organizations. In this highly interactive session, we will discuss the following:

• What are the new expectations of the CPO beyond bottom-line savings and supply management?
• What new sources of innovation are transformational CPOs using as a competitive advantage?
• Which actions should every high-performing CPO take to drive
  (3-4PM) – Invitation only Keith Hausmann, CRO, Globality

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FUNCTIONAL EXCELLENCE CASE STUDY – DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: MORE THAN A STRATEGY

• Digital transformation of a function is much more than a technology strategy. To truly transform we need our people to be able to operate in the new.
• This means ensuring they can support the new procurement service offerings like business partner or supplier management, or have the skills to challenge how they do their day to day job or how we can simplify the end users interactions with our processes, and have the skills and capacity to support changes to those processes to improve them.
• This pivot is one of the most difficult to deliver but if done right will ensure investments in technology and big data deliver guaranteed returns.
• During this presentation, we will deep dive into Accenture’s Procurement people strategy and the components that are making it a success.

Patricia Miller, Digital Transformation Director, Accenture

Delegates will have the chance to benchmark in small group sessions with peers from across their industry in these informative and interactive industry roundtables.

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Visibility into an organization’s operations & processes helps mitigate risk and alleviate supply chain issues.

• How can you protect cashflow with automation?
• How to enable a remote workforce?
• Identifying & resolving bottlenecks that delay payments & harm supplier relationships
• Flagging potential supply chain risks early through analytics

Michael Parzei, Chief Customer Officer, Vice President, Member Engagement, Clinical Services & Accounts Payable, Mohawk Medbuy
Jim Townsend, CPO, Walgreens Boots Alliance
Ed Aviles, Senior Global Business Advisor, Basware
Moderator: Tim Burt, Customer Insights Manager, Procurement Leaders

During this session delegates will hear from an innovative tech company as they showcase their platform and solution in a practical video demonstration.

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Complex, multitiered, and interconnected supplier networks—more like complicated webs than chains—span the globe and are, in various ways, vulnerable to shocks. Executive attention to value-chain risk was already on the rise, but now it’s in the spotlight. While the COVID-19 pandemic delivered the biggest and broadest value-chain shock in recent memory, it is only one of a series of disruptions, ranging from cybersecurity attacks and financial crises to tsunamis and volcanos, that expose value chains, companies, and countries to financial losses. Every decade, companies lose half a year of revenue, on average, due to value-chain disruptions.

The way a supply chain is constructed can turn out to be a source of either vulnerability or resilience—and there is no one-size-fits-all formula that will work for every company. Having many tier-one suppliers can be challenging for procurement unless the downstream company actively shapes a cohesive core group into which all others feed. Relying on a narrow supply chain may cede strategic leverage to key suppliers. Each company will have to determine the balance that fits its management capabilities and its risk tolerance.

Join for a discussion on how procurement can lead companies out of the crisis and into the next normal. Forward-looking companies will go a step further and reimagine the role of procurement to emerge stronger, and better prepared for any future crisis.

Yogesh Malik, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
Nolan Smith, VP, Global Supply Management, Corning Inc.
Moderator: Tim Burt, Customer Insights Manager, Procurement Leaders

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How does an organization create a culture of innovation from the ground up? With the help of his work and research, Ted will identify how you can enable your company to foster innovative practices that will transform your workplace culture.
Ted Graham, Head of Open Innovation, General Motors

Bart Ras, Managing Director, Greensill Capital
Moderator: Steve Hall, Head of Partnerships & Digital Engagement, Procurement Leaders

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During this session delegates will hear from an innovative tech company as they showcase their platform and solution in a practical video demonstration.

CPO CHALLENGER SERIES (3-4PM) – Invitation only

Moderator: Steve Hall, Head of Partnerships & Digital Engagement, Procurement Leaders

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DELIVERING IN A DOWNTURN CASE STUDY – HOW DOES DIVERSITY DRIVE IMPACT?

• How does having a diverse team can lead to more efficiencies?
• How different behaviors can mean different outcomes

Sonia Penoro, VP, Barclays

FUNCTIONAL EXCELLENCE INTERVIEW – DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: HOW TO MODERNIZE YOUR TRAVEL PROGRAM DURING COVID-19While most employee travel is stalled, now is the time to ensure your travel program is setup for success in the digital era. Hear from travel experts on how a digitally transformed travel program can help you address business challenges by leveraging travel program elements like ROI, predictability and duty of care for business recovery and ongoing success. By attending you’ll learn:

• Actionable insights to apply to your business including a simple framework for transformation success.
• Questions to ask yourself and your business when digitally transforming your travel program.
• Solutions for challenges now faced by procurement and travel managers including travel ROI, predictability and duty of care.

Wendy White, VP & CMO, Egencia
Moderator: Niko Nurmi, Senior Research Analyst, Procurement Leaders
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CASE STUDY – TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR OWN PROCUREMENT DESTINY WITH THE RIGHT DATA APPROACH

Your destiny is determined by your decisions and good decision making requires the right data. But, we all know that Procurement has a data problem. Many of us are struggling to find ways to overcome the Bad Data challenge. Join WNS-Denali and Mystery High Tech client in discussing the role of reliable and accurate data in making futuristic business decisions. We will share how a right data approach could help increase your organization’s reach and impact. You will learn:

• The right and wrong ways to use data to increase your organization’s reach and impact
• Four key pillars of a good data strategy for Procurement
• Practical advice from Mystery High Tech’s client data transformation story

Julie Brignac, Corporate Senior Vice President – Client Services, WNS-Denali

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PANEL DISCUSSION – MINIMIZING DISRUPTIONS WHILE ACHIEVING FASTER TIME TO VALUE

Visibility and automation are key to building a solid procurement foundation allowing companies to minimize disruptions and ensure business continuity. Hear about Wieland’s path to automation and how it helped keep working capital flowing through uncertain times. Learn more how this industrial products company:

• Delivered quick ROI to their business
• Improved process efficiencies and cost savings
• Ditched the paper to go digital

Newsha Neishaboory, Head of AP Automation Practice, Fluxym
Nathan Ford, Senior director of Accounting, Wieland North America
Ed Aviles, Senior Global Business Advisor, Basware
Moderator: Niko Nurmi, Senior Research Analyst, Procurement Leaders

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Alex Saric, CMO, Ivalua
Moderator: Steve Hall, Head of Partnerships & Digital Engagement, Procurement Leaders

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Southard Jones, Vice President Product Marketing, Celonis
Moderator: Steve Hall, Customer Insights Manager, Procurement Leaders

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During this session delegates will hear from an innovative tech company as they showcase their platform and solution in a practical video demonstration.

CPO CHALLENGER SERIES – THE ROAD TO PROCUREMENT MASTERY: PRIORITIES FOR LEADERSHIP

Today, more is being asked of procurement and the function must be ready to answer the call. How are you supporting a more agile and resilient organisation – where are you doubling down in terms of strategic priorities and do you have what you need to execute those?In these companies, procurement is shifting from a primary focus on cost reduction to playing a key role in helping differentiate the company strategically, drive revenue growth, provide greater operational agility, enhance the enterprise’s brand and reputation and future proof the organization through a greater focus on resiliency.This session will focus on peer-to-peer sharing around:

• Procurement’s North Star – How have you adapted your vision and what are business expectations in the wake of the disruption through 2020
• Reallocating Resources – Where are you placing your bets with the resources you have to have maximum impact
• Plans into action – What’s in front of leaders in the coming months as they look to ready themselves for this shift towards greater alignment with their business partners

(3-4PM) – Invitation only

Moderator: Steve Hall, Head of Partnerships & Digital Engagement, Procurement Leaders

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DELIVERING IN A DOWNTURN PANEL DISCUSSION – PROCUREMENT BEYOND THE PANDEMIC: STRENGTHENING YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN”

• How to operate a proactive procurement function that responds well to volatility?
• How to ensure evolving procurement roles prioritize supply chain health today and in the aftermath?
• How to use supplier data and human intelligence to gain adoption with your suppliers?

Stewart Stanton, Managing Director, C2FO
Moderator: Niko Nurmi, Senior Research Analyst, Procurement Leaders

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• FUNCTIONAL EXCELLENCE CASE STUDY – UNEXPECTED COVID-19 WINS DELIVERED THROUGH OUR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

  Like many other large enterprises, the University of California was faced with quite a challenge at the onset of the pandemic and is now faced with the question of how to reopen campuses safely amongst continuing uncertainty. In this session, you will learn how their digital transformation benefitted the highly autonomous, decentralized, 10 campus system university system, with $10B in annual indirect in ways that they hadn’t expected.

  Erin Riley, Executive Director, University of California

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INTERVIEW – USING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TO ENABLE EFFECTIVE CHANGE

• Embracing adaptation: supplying credible information to inform decisions
• Creating value: leveraging analytics to protect margins
• Managing the human aspect: creating data savvy teams

Peter Seitz, Director, Procurement BI & Enablement, Ciena
Jason Rohlf, Vice President – Solutions, Onspring
Moderator: Lorenza Schiaffino, Head of Content Research, Events, Procurement Leaders

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PANEL DISCUSSION – NEW WAYS OF WORKING: HOW CAN COMPANIES EXTEND BENEFITS TO REMOTE EMPLOYEES?

Brett Bartolai, Senior Director of Procurement, Grubhub
Heather Grobaski, Senior Account Executive, Grubhub
Moderator: Niko Nurmi, Senior Research Analyst, Procurement Leaders

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Roy Anderson, CPO & Digital Transformation Director, Tradeshift
Graham Wright, Vice President – Global Procurement, Finance & Operations, Global Business Services, IBM
Moderator: Steve Hall, Head of Partnerships & Digital Engagement, Procurement Leaders

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During this session delegates will hear from an innovative tech company as they showcase their platform and solution in a practical video demonstration.

Americas Procurement Awards celebrate the most impressive and transformative procurement initiatives, teams, and individuals throughout North and South America and Canada. For the most competitive market in the world, this is an opportunity to stand out as a regional leader, while inspiring fellow innovators and trendsetters to take the function to new heights.

The past six months have dramatically highlighted how critical procurement can be to the success of the enterprise. Savvy CPOs and sourcing leaders are seizing this opportunity to educate the business about the tremendous impact Procurement can make when empowered in the right ways. Learn how to:

• Brand and market Procurement’s value proposition to the business
• Demonstrate the impact of strategic sourcing using collaborative, cloud-based technology
• Build your 2-5 year plan for elevating procurement within the enterprise

Suraj Prashad, VP Strategic Sourcing and CPO, The Hanover Insurance Group
Moderator: Steve Hall, Head of Partnerships and Digital Engagement, Procurement Leaders

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During this session delegates will hear from an innovative tech company as they showcase their platform and solution in a practical video demonstration.

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CPO CHALLENGER SERIES – THE FUTURE OF ANALYTICS, AUTOMATION, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN PROCUREMENT

Procurement organizations have made great strides in leveraging technology to improve operational execution and performance.

This session will explore the pros and cons of the three latest technologies: Analytics, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence.

Leaders will discuss their experiences with each of the technologies and their future plans for greater or less usage.

Moderator: Steve Hall, Head of Partnerships & Digital Engagement, Procurement Leaders

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DELIVERING IN A DOWNTURN CASE STUDY – HOW PROCESS MINING HELPS COMPANIES FACE UNPRECEDENTED CHALLENGES

The recent pandemic months have changed and continue to affect the way companies interact inside the supply chain and with purchasing. Now more than ever, it’s necessary to have control over our purchasing processes to successfully monitor efficiency and quickly simulate and effectuate necessary changes related to cutting costs and reducing lead-time and reworks.

It’s crucial to adopt process mining solutions, like myInvenio, that allow for intuitive and automatic analysis of business processes like purchase to pay (P2P), starting from the digital footprint present in business systems to precisely measure the expected ROI following changes implemented in the purchasing process.

We’ll take a look at how a large automotive company used process mining from myInvenio to analyze its P2P process and identified and realized more than 800k USD in savings!!

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FUNCTIONAL EXCELLENCE CASE STUDY – HOW DO WE BETTER LEVERAGE SUPPLIER EXPERTISE & KNOWLEDGE INTO OUR PRODUCT OFFERING?

• How to better partner with your suppliers to drive innovation and become a more competitive business of the future
• How can innovation be made a KPI for supplier delivery?
• How can strategic partnerships encourage innovation between procurement, stakeholders and suppliers?
• How will your partnerships with suppliers change?