Main Day 3: Operating in the Future Business Environment

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Kick start your day by exploring the critical issues facing Pharma business and make new contacts among the senior audience of healthcare procurement professionals.

Lars Johan Froyland

Chief Procurement Officer
Helse Vest

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Find out how to create the environment in your business to enable more innovation to flow from suppliers to internal business partners and finally to patients. Drawing on his extensive experience leading in some of the biggest businesses in the world, Quentin will share his thoughts on what it takes to empower business to open up to innovation.

• What it takes to persuade business leaders to invest in a culture of innovation

• Benefits of exchanging innovation to compete in today’s fast moving Pharma sector

• How to develop a global procurement team that focuses on innovation to create value for the business

• How to successfully balance procurement integration with facilitating innovation exchange

Quentin Roach

Chief Procurement Officer
Merck Sharpe and Dohme

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Take advantage of cultural, environmental and technological changes to create new value for your business through procurement. Using current initiatives to explain how, Mark will help you find new ways to control spend, unlock innovation and drive value delivery to your internal business partners.

• Why is it more important today than ever before to identify new opportunities through procurement

• How to engage your global procurement team in a culture of opportunity and innovation

• How to read and benefit from market changes to drive new value into your business

• The role of technology in evolving the perception of procurement in the business

Mark Lewis

Head of Procurement Europe
AstraZeneca

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As procurement amasses ever more data and information relating to suppliers and internal stakeholders it is critical you have a robust knowledge management strategy in place to make use of all the intelligence. But how to go about doing this in an affordable way for your business? Find out from one of the leading experts on procurement intelligence just how procurement can play a key role in integrating the business in a new digital environment.

• Make or buy? How do you know which is the right strategy for your business when it comes to developing a procurement intelligence capability?

• How to capture and share the vast amount of knowledge generated from procurement data

• Building bridges with internal partners using evidence-based strategies to co-create value

• Simplifying processes and decision making for your business’ senior leadership by leveraging business intelligence

Rembert Gunter

Head of Procurement Intelligence
Boehringer Ingelheim

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As the business environment becomes increasingly digitised the role of procurement is evolving rapidly to become even more strategic than ever before. Whether on-boarding suppliers using digital platforms, analysing company spend using digital dashboards or e-invoicing and e-auctions procurement has been and will be key to business transformation.

• Why does digital mean procurement must change the way it does business?

• How the new operational environment is bringing markets nearer

• How to use technology to open up hard-to-reach markets and individual suppliers

• How to develop new channels for innovation to flow into the business

Rembert Gunter

Head of Procurement Intelligence
Boehringer Ingelheim

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Brijesh Luthra

Head of Transformation
Zurich Insurance

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Alex Short

Founder
Old Street Labs

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Keeping a focus on innovation is the only way to create new opportunities through procurement, which requires a constant dialogue across your business. Find out how Andrew connects geographically, organisationally distributed decision makers with procurement teams working most closely on unlocking innovation from supplier markets.

• How to decide which channels to use to keep global procurement teams connected

• How to gain agreement on requirements and specification internally to ensure suppliers focus on true business needs

• How to build a cross functional team that drives toward the same common goal of unlocking innovation to benefit the business and the patient

• The role of technology in enabling communication of innovation requirements and opportunities

Andrew Wallace

Procurement Manager
Actavis

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Get a key take-aways from today’s sessions to take back to the office expertly summarised by today’s chairperson.

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