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Brussels

• Conference Day One: Monday 16th June 2008
• Conference Day Two: Tuesday 17th June 2008

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Conference Day One: Monday 16th June 2008

09:00 Chair's Introduction And Opening Remarks

Stephen North
Senior Procurement Manager Technology
Royal Mail

09:10 - 09:50 Unlocking Financial Supply Chain (FSC) Liquidity And Optimising Working Capital: Connecting Treasury, Procurement And Sales To Transform Cash Cycle Management

How do you go about really securing bottom line savings, optimising working capital and ensuring that your organisation is performing at its optimum level? StatoilHydro are putting strategies in place to do exactly that! This session reveals how they have broken down traditional siloed processes and established common ground within their Global Shared Service between the Treasury, Procurement and Sales. Discover how they established such an organisation as the basis for their continued journey to operational excellence and increased cash control.

• Making the move from traditional in-house banking into Financial Supply Chain operations
• Finding an organisational fit within your Global Shared Service Centre
• Viewing processes holistically for real process productivity

Johan Learaers
Head of Financial Supply Chain
StatoilHydro ASA

09:50 - 10:30 Creating A Robust Governance Framework In Indirect Procurement: Leveraging Strategic Sourcing And Category Management

For many companies it's difficult to have control around ALL strategic sourcing initiatives, Category Management areas and the full P2P process. The answer lies within setting up the proper governance model with clear roles and responsibilities within your global organisation. Hear how Lego has successfully implemented their compliance strategy and is reaping the rewards across their Financial Supply Chain.

• Gain transparency within your organisation around strategic sourcing, Category Management and P2P
• Setting up the right governance structure and gain control over the full scope of Indirect Procurement and P2P
• Practicalities of running your business under a clearly defined governance structure

John Kelley
Head of Indirect Procurement
Lego Systems

11:00 - 11:45 Select Your Session From Stream A Or B Below

11:50 - 12:30 Select Your Session From Stream A Or B Below

STREAM A: Purchasing	STREAM B: P2P
11:00 - 11:45 Facilitating Interoperability In Public Procurement Across Europe: Initiatives Of The European Commission. The European Commission have long been driving a task force to enable quicker, easier and more cost effective financial activity across Europe. This session will investigate what are the major European initiatives in modernising the public procurement process. Despite the progress in introducing electronic procedures in a number of Member States, there is a variety of common problems that still need to be overcome. The session will illustrate the Community approach in dealing with them. Zuzana Mazanová Programme Officer European eGovernment services (IDABC)	11:00 - 11:45 Accelerating Transactions Through E-Invoicing: Overcoming European Regulatory Compliance And Securing Supplier Adoption Speeding up processes and streamlining your P2P Function is on everyone's agenda, and e- Invoicing can be a valuable tool in attaining this. Many organisations are still struggling to adopt it fully due to different inter-country regulatory and tax issues, which make it impossible for there to be one single solution. Eli Lilly have successfully progressed this solution inside their P2P function, and reveal the secrets to gaining supplier buy-in to the technology. What are your options: Is third party intervention the only way? Eli Lilly prove otherwise. Simplifying European regulatory compliance Maximising the ROI of e-invoicing in the future Antonella Schiavone Process Leader, P2P Eli Lilly
11:50 - 12:30 Ensuring Your Global Purchasing Processes Measure Up: Taking Full Advantage Of Your Size To Drive Value And Efficiency Into Your Organisation Standardising Purchasing processes is a complex undertaking, especially when the scope of the project is global in every sense of the word. Unifying diverse people and processes around the right solution is the key to successful rollout. Hear how Schneider Electric are transforming their Purchasing organisation to leverage the groups global reach and buy smarter worldwide: Ensuring suppliers are aware of the benefits Aligning purchasing strategies and technologies to maximise your processes Leveraging value: Making the most out of being a global organisation Achieving real savings: Bottom line results that you can actually see! Bertrand Maltaverne Global Process Applications Manager Schneider Electric	11:50 - 12:30 Integrating Multiple Legal Entities During A Global ERP Roll-Out: Ensuring OCR And Workflow Harmonisation Bringing together and integrating technology to improve Workflow is key to any organisation's success. Evonik (formerly Degussa) are working towards integrating 100+ legal entities and 10 ERP systems across their organisation. Hear how they are rolling out their process whilst working towards achieving around 1800 invoices per full time equivalent each month! All this whilst integrating not just technology, but the employees who have been brought together via the merger of Degussa Evonik. Michael Wilkes Head of Accounts Payable Invoice Verification Evonik AG

13:35 - 14:15 Steering P2P Into The Right Direction During Merger And/or Acquisition: Assimilating And Harmonising P2P People And Processes

It's a recognised fact that if Procurement and AP departments don't view themselves as one process, your P2P function will never reach its full potential. Unless you can ensure both sides view their roles holistically, there is little point in investing further in sophisticated software when human error, miscommunication and a lack of collaborative working will always remain a major obstacle. Following a Worldwide company merger, LyondellBassell Industries are currently effectively measuring and improving their newly integrated P2P process. Learn how they are seamlessly transitioning 2 ERP systems in order to steer their P2P function in the right direction.

• Creating an environment of 'Process Ownership'
• Driving transparency into supplier transactions
• Measuring and monitoring progress through meaningful KPIs
• Improving cross-departmental communication
• Building a winning team culture

Ilse Devlamynck
P2P Process Owner
LyondellBasell Industries

14:15 - 15:00 Select Your Session From Stream A Or B Below

STREAM A: Purchasing

STREAM B: P2P

14:15 - 15:00 Driving Transparency And Envisaging What's Next: Taking E-Sourcing To The Next Level With Bid Optimisation Integrating your e-Souring strategy seamlessly to ensure that the award decisions are instant, transparent and accurate is becoming more business critical. Bid Optimisation not only makes this possible but also ensures true collaboration is a reality, factoring in the business constraints which typically are unachievable through manual processes. The allocation of scarce resources as business needs constantly change requires quick decision-making and immediate scenario comparison. Royal Mail is facing these challenges head-on proving that Bid Optimisation takes award transparency to the next level. Through this tool they are successfully matching business demands with supply chain constraints whilst further improving e-Sourcing benefits in half the time! Stephen North Senior Procurement Manager Technology Royal Mail Plc

14:15 - 15:00 P2P - Ensuring An Environment Of Process Excellence: Achieving A 97% Payment Rate Through OCR/ICR And E-Invoicing OCR/ICR, e-Invoicing: how does it fit together to really ensure process success? How can you use these technologies to really ensure on-time supplier payments, human error elimination and see your paper trail really start to recede? Hear how Belgacom have been able to instil an environment of excellence within their Accounts Payables function ensuring that they are seen as an efficient company to work for and within. Find out exactly how they have managed to achieve a 97% payment rate. Taking a candid and open look at your internal processes Achieving maximum compliancy: Utilising process driven strategies to ensure success Andre Martens AP Manager Belgacom

15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Tea And Networking

15:30 - 16:00 From Invoice Automation To End-To-End Purchase-To-Pay: Ensuring A Matching Success Rate Of Over 85%

A fully automated end-to-end process is the ideal scenario for any organisation that really wants to drive down cost, eliminate human error and get rid of their paper trail. Through client case study examples Basware share critical insight into how advanced automation drives straight-through processing and allows you achieve a touchless and exception free environment. Learn how to monitor your KPIs and utilise the data from these to really tone up your P2P process to get the results you really desire.

Basware & Client

16:00 - 17:00 Dragon's Den: Cutting Straight To The Chase On P2P Technology

Everybody's talking about the latest innovations in P2P tools but what's the difference between them and how do you decide what's right for you? As tools become more sophisticated, the choice becomes harder. How can you optimise the use of these tools and to what extent?

If like many companies you are already using some technology for scanning, data capture or similar and want to know what else might be compatible with your existing tools, OR if you're starting from scratch and don't know what to choose - then you cannot miss invaluable insight to what's what in the P2P technology market! This session helps you tackle the myriad of technologies in this marketplace and daring vendors have just THREE MINUTES each to justify their case, followed by 5 minutes of Q&A where you can ask any question you want - however controversial!

17:00 - 17:00 Chairman's Closing Remarks And End Of Day One

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Conference Day Two: Tuesday 17th June 2008

09:00 Chair's Opening And Welcome To Day Two

Stephen North
Senior Procurement Manager Technology
Royal Mail

09:10 - 09:50 Linking Purchase-To-Pay (P2P) And Your Financial Supply Chain Globally: Recognising The Role P2P Plays In Freeing Up Your Working Capital

Working Capital and cost savings are on every CFO's agenda, but whether you can actually improve your internal process is another matter. There is a growing need for companies to view their P2P process in a holistic sense and forward thinking companies are doing just this. By integrating your Procurement and Accounts Payable (AP) departments to leverage control over processes, you can utilise your automated procedures more effectively. By applying meaningful KPIs you can take your P2P process to the next level and start to use it as a value adding tool, capable of putting money back into the Financial Supply Chain. Hear how Suez are:

• Viewing the P2P process as part of the bigger Financial picture
• Transforming P2P process from a cost-saving initiative to a value-adding tool
• Breaking down pre-conceptions and driving forward change management
• Examining each individual process and its impact on the wider financial supply chain

Bruno Lockhart
P2P Project Director
Suez

09:50- 10:30 Tackling Maverick Spend Holistically: What Happens When "No Purchase Order (PO), No Pay" Just Isn't An Option?

In companies with strongly independent functions, a "no PO no Pay" approach may simply not fly. Procter and Gamble is one such company and eliminating maverick spend relies heavily on the support and actions of many organisations across many locations. During this session Procter and Gamble will reveal insight into how they overcome maverick spend through:

• Globally defining the Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) based control expectations
• Implementing P2P solutions as the easiest way for organisations to meet these needs
• Championing P2P within each site by establishing & supporting your P2P process
• Providing visibility to senior management through scorecarding KPIs

Percy Kirkman
P2P Leader P&G Western Europe
Proctor and Gamble

11:00 - 11:45 Select Your Session From Stream A Or B Below

11:50 - 12:30 Select Your Session From Stream A Or B Below

STREAM A: Purchasing	STREAM B: P2P
11:00 - 11:45 Rolling-Out A Strategic Sourcing Transformation: Using E-Sourcing As A Key Enabler For A More Efficient And Simplified P2P Process Hear how Total's worldwide e-Sourcing migration is developing e-Sourcing best practice to improve worker collaboration. This session reveals how they are utilising this instrument to help their Purchasing departments take control over their processes. Creating synergies between departments through use of technology Comparing and collating supplier information more effectively Improving efficiency and collaboration between suppliers and buyers Guy Brouaux e-Solutions Manager Total	11:00 - 11:45 Reducing Costs And Taking Control: The Advantage Of Accounts Payable Analysis On Risk And Accounts Payable Management. As the credit crunch takes hold, being in control of your cash flow is now, more than ever business critical. Despite the best technology it is all too easy to pay out on incorrect invoices meaning suppliers are over paid and money is lost. Through a client case study, Transparent reveal how you can optimize your payment processes by incorporating accurate data such as supplier summaries and visibility on all aspects of your financial processes, thereby ensuring that you take control. By doing this you can really ensure efficiency across your P2P Function and positively impacting your bottom line! Transparent & Client
11:50 - 12:30 Obtaining Excellence For Suppliers And Customers Through P-Card Optimisation The introduction of the Welsh Purchasing Card (WPC) by Value Wales Procurement over four years ago has generated significant purchase-to-pay cost saving in excess of £10 million to public sector organisations in Wales. Alan will explain how the WPC programme has developed and looks at the reasons why P-cards continue to prove so popular with Welsh public sector organisations. Streamlining P2P for the public sector Overview of the Welsh Purchasing Card: Why it works and where it works Future roll-out plans and supplier engagement issues Alan Oram Welsh Purchasing Card Programme Manager, xchangewales Value Wales Procurement	11:50 - 12:30 Transforming Your Invoice Process Through Successful E-Billing Implementation: Gaining Accuracy And Visibility From The Start Boosting supplier relations, saving time and of course eliminating the paper trail are all benefits of e- Billing implementation. A fully integrated e-Billing process creates a win-win solution with valuable benefits for both supplier and customers. However as many organisations remain in the very early stages of implementation, this session will offer the benefit of Bosch's hindsight two years down the line. Enabling simple supplier adoption for large and small suppliers e.g. common XML-standard for electronic data interchange Reducing reconciliation issues with your suppliers Securing web access to legal archive system Compatibility with both Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable invoices Mike Lechner AP Manager Robert Bosch

13:35 - 14:00 Utilising Lean To Impact Your Bottom-Line

How can Lean positively impact your P&L - and what about 6 sigma? Say those terms and how many people associate them with quality, but very little with direct impact on financials? GE will reveal how they are applying Lean to their P2P process by focusing on simplification and cycle time. By supporting growth for your customers through innovation and imagination it will enable you to re-think your processes and shape them so they can be defined as ready, reliable and repeatable.

• Reviewing the P2P process wing-to-wing
• Setting the gap analysis between the 'To Be' and 'As Is' process
• Reducing waste of time to shorten ready-to-pay time
• Redesigning processes which shall be improved
• Testing & challenging solutions

Miguel Caulliez
Global PO Functional Leader - Global Buy-to-Pay
GE

14:00 - 15:00 Promoting Procurement And Payment Behaviour And Best Practice: Creating A Supply Chain Code Of Practice

The Oil & Gas sector have identified that a Supply Chain "Code of Practice" is enabling organisations to work in a more streamlined and efficient fashion. A key component part of the code involves encouraging the supply chain to work towards compliance with 30 day payment cycles. Supply Chain practice in this sector can be held up as an exemplar to other industries in terms of the collaborative behaviours being promoted to overcome the challenges associated with traditional prolonged payment cycles. This session examines the principles of this Code of Practice and the compelling case for its wider application across supply chains in other sectors to complement technology solutions being developed to streamline payment cycles.

• Understanding the strategic role a code of practice plays in continuous business improvement
• Development and publishing industry-specific best practice
• Driving cost and waste out of the supply chain
• Ensuring business continuity for contractors/suppliers
• Maintaining the required level of service to clients

Norman McLennan
Commercial & Supply Chain Executive Manager
Oil & Gas UK.

15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Tea And Networking

15:30 - 16:30 Harmonising P2P Automation Across A Global Platform: Integrating Procurement Technologies With Your Existing ERP

As accurate processing and data capture are critical to facilitating consistent, global decision-making and reporting, companies need to ensure their ERP strategy addresses the above. Merck operate a system which has been set up to utilise one standard ERP template, valid for all operational functions, all divisions and regions. P2P is one such integral process which feeds into this template.

• Leveraging suppliers by supporting a common Procurement strategy Worldwide
• Establishing robust Purchasing and global reporting practices (Including global spend analysis, business with strategic vendors, strategic sourcing etc)

Remy Colle
Purchase-to-Pay Process Owner
MerckSerono

16:30 - 17:15 BRAND NEW FOR 2008: Find Your Benchmarking Partner! Do You Have A Specific Problem And Want To Find Out If Others Are Having The Same Issues?

Would having a benchmarking partner help you understand where your P2P process currently measures up? Welcome to the very first speed networking session: Bring your questions, problems or pain points and really get the information that you want - no spiel, just the details you desire! This session is designed to allow you to sit down, face-to-face with your industry peers and have a frank and open discussion! Find out if the person you are talking to has the answers you need!

17:15 Chairman's Closing Summary

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