Conference Day One
Tuesday 19 July
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08:15 | Registration remarks and welcome coffee
08:50 | Opening remarks from the Chair
Jonathan Dutton, Director, JD Consultancy
IMPLEMENTING PROACTIVE RISK MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES IN AN ENVIRONMENT OF INCREASED REGULATIONS, TIGHTER CONTROLS AND GREATER SCRUTINY FROM GOVERNING BODIE
09:00 | Understanding the increasing regulatory stringency within the financial sector and the implications for procurement operations
- Identifying the key regulatory obstacles and how it affects procurement decisions – a regulatory impact assessment
- Increasing interaction capabilities between legal and procurement departments to achieve better regulatory compliance
- Redesigning core business processes and implementing automation to eliminate compliance risk
Andrew Kitchen, Executive General Manager, Finance and Technical Services, IAG
09.40 | CASE STUDY: The impact of procurement risk reporting at ME Bank
- Analysing how procurement risk reporting has evolved at ME Bank
- What have been the impacts on the procurement function and the organisation?
- What is the roadmap for future developments in procurement risk reporting?
Michael Morpeth, General Manager Procurement and Property, ME Bank
10:20 | Morning tea
11:00 | Procurement and project management – how to embed procurement touch points in the project management office (PMO) framework and prevent bottlenecks
- How to left-shift your procurement engagement to ensure maximum value for money from suppliers
- How procurement can improve your PMO bidding and budget process success rate every time
- Understanding how projects run into the procurement buffers by failing to engage early, why that leads to project blow outs and how
- Pick up procurement synch points for PMO phase gates to ensure on time, on budget delivery 99.999% of the time
Mike Brannan, Manager Procurement Services, People's Choice Credit Union
GAINING INSIGHTS INTO THE FINANCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES SECTOR AND HOW PROCUREMENT CAN ADD STRATEGIC VALUE
11.40 | Benefitting from the implementation of a smart network and new functionalities
- Analysing how digital disruption in financial services continues to deliver even greater opportunities for value creation across the source to pay lifecycle
- Designing effective collaboration and efficient transactions to deliver real value to the bottom line
- Identifying, enabling and realising value throughout your organisation’s procurement journey by using a value lifecycle management approach
Richard Bradbury, Head of Value Engineering APJ and Greater China, SAP Ariba
12:20 | Networking lunch
13.20 | MACROECONOMIC OUTLOOK KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Australia's next growth driver - the rise of the services sectors
- As the mining boom comes to its end, growth is re-balancing to the services sectors
- Examining how domestically healthcare and professional services are leading growth
- Analysing how foreign demand, particularly from Asia, is supporting growth
- The outlook for further growth in financial and professional services
Paul Bloxham, Chief Economist, HSBC
14:00 | A lack of effective probity, through unethical practice to actual fraud – why people commit procurement fraud and what to do about it
Ruth Bayley, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Association of Procurement & Contract Management (AAPCM)
14:40 | Afternoon tea
CONVINCING THE WIDER ORGANISATION OF THE VALUE OF PROCUREMENT - GETTING A SEAT A THE TABLE
15:20 | PANEL DISCUSSION: Making the procurement function relevant in financial services – speaking the bank language “Bankanese”
- How can procurement professionals convince the wider organisation to be a true partner to the business?
- What needs to be done to better engage internal stakeholders to improve the communication about the value of procurement?
- What sort of language does procurement need to speak to make sure the wider organisation understands?
- How can procurement shift away from the tactical category focused culture that seems to dominate most functions to one that is fully aligned with the organisational goals and active in the strategic decision-making process of the business?
Panel moderator:
Jonathan Dutton, Director, JD Consultancy
Panellists:
Sommer Baxter, Director of Procurement, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
Lou Pagano, Director Alliances, AMP
David Byrne, Procurement & Contracts Manager, Credit Union Australia
16:10 | Closing remarks from the Chair
16:20 | End of Day One and networking drinks
19:00 | Official event dinner