On Thursday 6 February, 45 procurement excellence leaders gathered at bpost’s brand new event centre in Brussels. Together with bpost, Procurement & Supply Chain Masters organised the very first Procurement Excellence Leadership Connect.
In this post-pandemic, post-globalization world, it’s evident that procurement teams have to adapt to the changing reality. This is a challenge we must all embrace. As the world our companies operate in, has shifted dramatically in the last 5 years, one of the questions is: How does procurement remain relevant?
The silver lining however, is that most of the changes we face, are external in nature. Hence, we can also assume that there’s a big opportunity to learn from colleagues about which procurement solutions they’ve designed to respond to the changing procurement role. To this end, we organised a gathering exclusively targeted at Procurement Excellence Leaders in the BeNeLux area. The goal of this gathering was to discuss procurement trends, share experiences, showcase best practices, create learning opportunities, and enable networking.
After a sandwich lunch, Wietse Nauwelaerts of bpostgroup, opened the first editon of the Procurement Excellence Leadership Connect session. It was Thomas Warnotte of Syensqo who delivered the first keynote. He told the captivated audience about Scope 3 emmissions in the upstream Value Chain. After the Q&A, it was Laurent Bosseler of UCB’s turn to give a presentation on Tailoring your Procurement Centre Of Excellence to keep procurement relevant. The many interesting questions that followed during the Q&A made it very clear that this keynote was also greatly appreciated by the audience.
We look back on a successful first edition of the Procurement Excellence Leadership Connect and are looking forward to the next! We’ll keep you posted!
The slide deck of this session was sent to all participants
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