As companies face growing complexity and experience vital transformations, Purchasing has a major role to play in helping them find opportunities and develop new competitive advantages.
During the next EIPM Annual Conference, we will explore how we can contribute to generate value in such a context and how Purchasing can transform complexity into an advantage.
Altogether we will look, amongst other things, at how to:
Develop an End to End understanding of value chains
Contribute to radically simplifying internal processes
Become a single point of contact for internal and external stakeholders
Establish partnerships with new players
Protect and support brands
Purchasing can turn market complexity, internal complexity and imposed complexities such as regulations and compliance matters to its advantage. It can anticipate and accelerate when required. It can both protect the business while empowering transformations.
This will lead us to examine the following questions:
What does it mean to innovate and generate value in such a context?
Should we measure our contribution to the transformation of our companies?
Can we find other ways to assess, benchmark and communicate our contribution to the success of our companies?
All these challenges are uppermost in the minds of CPOs and Executives in Europe and beyond.
Join us to answer these questions together with leaders and experts from industry, academia and consultancy.
Speakers
Alexander Sidorin
CPO, United Metallurgical Company
Anders Carlsson
Chief Purchasing Officer, SKF
Claudia Viohl
CPO, E.ON
Dominique Etourneau
CPO, Aéroports de Paris
Dominique Lebigot
Chief Purchasing Officer, LVMH Wines & Spirits
Emmanuel Erba
Group Chief Purchasing Officer, Capgemini
Frederick Bordry
Director for Accelerators and Technology, CERN
Heinrich Berger
VP, Global Raw Material Procurement, ICL Group
Jean-Philippe Collin
Former Chief Purchasing Officer, Sanofi
Lison Fressynet
Strategic Back Office – Group Procurement, Capgemini
Dr. Marcell Vollmer
Chief Digital Officer, SAP Ariba
Matteo Battaini
SVP Global Procurement | CPO, Pirelli
Oliver Knapp
Senior Partner, Roland Berger
Pierre-Francois Thaler
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, EcoVadis
Valerie Smeets
Procurement Academy, Ferrero
Testimonials
The strength of the EIPM is that it is really focused on Procurement related topics and we have opportunities to share information with other big companies.
Frederic Stalder
Head of Performance & Processes Management, Clariant
EIPM brings experts in Purchasing & Supply Chain Management from all over the world together, which is a great opportunity and chance for exchange, networking, getting inspiration from outside.
Hannes Schrittesser
Head of Purchasing & Supply Chain Management, IT & Network at Swisscom
The EIPM Peter Kraljic Award is an incredible recognition of the work we did over past years and a great encouragement on the progress that we are making.
Aurelien Rothstein
Group CPO, Essilor
Top-notch speeches and presentations are very inspirational.
Henrik Thorsen
General Manager China, Jorgen Kruuse A/S
The EIPM Annual Conference inspired me and my team to re-engineer procurement systems in the OMK. Since 2014 I annually take part in this event, that represents a source of best practices and business ideas for procurement. I am glad to participate on 6-7 December 2018. Join us!
Alexander Sidorin
Chief Procurement Officer, United Metallurgical Company
A lot of diverse points of view and a nice place to exchange ideas on what is coming next.
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VENUE: Archamps Convention Centre (see on the map below).
BY PLANE: The nearest airport is Geneva International Airport, about 20 minutes from the venue.
BY TRAIN: There are two main Railway Stations in Geneva: Gare Cornavin (located in the city centre, about 45 minutes from the venue) and Airport Railway Station (about 20 minutes from the venue).
BY CAR: The venue is by the A40 highway, exit 13.1 “Archamps Technopole”.