Capacity expansion in India, shortages of raw materials and the current financial crisis are affecting your operations of sourcing throughout the world. Day by day there is an increasing uncertainty about what is going to happen in the future of stable supply.

 

Companies are struggling to secure raw materials supply at competitive prices.  Are you aware of the new developments in sourcing? Is your team making your sourcing processes cost-effective in relation to your peers in the industry? Do you know how to create more value in your supply chain? Are you suffering a shortage of qualified human resources? Or is your corporate strategy aligned to your sourcing processes along the respective business units?

 

Following the success of the first edition, the 2^nd Annual Enhancing Strategic Sourcing in the Chemical Industry event will provide you with an outstanding insight into the lessons to be learned from major chemical/petrochemical companies. You will have the opportunity to review and consider existing frameworks with the help of renowned experts. Real life examples and focused face-to-face discussions will present you with the opportunity to develop strategic sourcing, work towards excellence on human resources, overview the economic forecast from experts from the industry to facilitate communications with your Board and senior management and to add value to your business. Therefore do not miss this occasion and join us in the Business capital of Europe: Amsterdam.

 

• Head Procurement Raw Materials, Bayer CropScience, Germany
  
• Vice President Purchasing Raw Materials and Packaging, Arkema, France
  
• Director of Global Procurement, AkzoNobel, the Netherlands
  
• Head of Strategic Sourcing and Procurement, Lanxess, India
  
• Head of Procurement and Acquisitions, Rompetrol, Romania
  
• Director Global Purchasing, DSM Elastomers
  
• NEVI – Chair of Purchasing and Supply Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

 

• 2 Workshops: 

1. E-Negotiations: Towards Effective Suppliers Management. The key to success on Strategic Sourcing is linked to effective negotiation of business conditions with suppliers.  When negotiating remotely there is a need for an organization to have detail information beforehand on your potential supplier for discussing and structuring effective business relationships.
Attendees to this WS will learn from first-hand experience how to successfully negotiate remotely with suppliers and gain insights into how to achieve and exceed your targeted levels.

2. Ensuring Quality & Auditing Suppliers.  Companies are racing to stay on top and they try their best to select cost-effective suppliers.  While work undertaken by a supplier is provided on regular basis and represents a vital part of your operation there is therefore a need to assure quality of the products to avoid potential contingencies in your production processes.
Through this workshop you will gain knowledge on how to assess the risks of working with suppliers and appraise your potential suppliers’ competence to avoid incidents that could affect your internal clients.

 

• Economical Trends in the Chemical Industry.  Industry experts will address the impact in the Chemical Industry of high oil prices, the inclusion of New Product Innovation and New Product Development in the global sourcing process and the impact of Indian’s increased production.

• Business Development. We will evaluate the Suppliers’ Network in China and how to structure business with Middle East companies to extend suppliers pipeline.

• Suppliers Management & Effective Logistics. This session will focus on how to approach your Suppliers in the current economic context, how to effective work Category Management in local and cross country sourcing.  Leading companies in the industry will address the issues of avoiding heavy delays in traffic of goods, how to overcome the challenges of business process automatization and will have a Key Note Presentation on Logistics and global sourcing followed by an interactive panel discussion covering the current status of logistics infrastructure in key and potential markets worldwide.

• Human Resources.  How to build the best-in-class human resources and way to avoid shortages in skilled workers and managers will be examine by your peers in the industry from successful HR policies and implementations programs.
  
  
• Sales & Operations Planning.  We will touch base with best practices on structuring S&OP in global environments and effective inclusion of planning and forecasting process in your sourcing strategy.
  
  
• Strategic Business Development and Management.  What is the future for renewable raw materials vs. oil-based products? This issue and strategic management of price risks will be assessed in this session.

From Chemical and Petrochemical Industry:

Chief Procurement Officers, Vice Presidents of Purchasing, Managing Directors, Global Heads of Strategic Sourcing, Sourcing Senior Directors, Purchasing Directors, Global Leaders of Supply Chain, Strategic Sourcing Managers, Supply Chain Directors and Managers, Strategy and Business Development Managers, E-Purchasing Directors and Managers, Heads of Corporate Sourcing, Heads of Corporate Procurement, Procurement Managers, Operations Managers, Raw Materials Purchasing Managers