Gordon Crichton, Director, Institute of International Purchasing Management at Kedge Business School
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Gordon Crichton


Director, Institute of International Purchasing Management
Kedge Business School

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Value Creation – Harness Innovation, Co-Create Value and Boost Performance with Your Suppliers

Wednesday, March 11th, 2015


14:00 Exploring How to Create Value through Your Indirect Strategy

Moderator: Andrea Sordi, Head of Indirect Procurement Europe, Mondelez International

Identify the top 5 category management challenges today and discover how your peers from other industry sectors plan to tackle them.

Generate new ideas, take away proven strategies and even put your questions across during this live, interactive discussion.

16:30 Interactive Case Study: Capturing Innovation from Big Strategic Suppliers

In the first of the new series of collaboration dialogues you will learn how procurement and a stakeholder engage, collaborate and deliver successful outcomes to the business. During this session led by Thibaut you will discover:
  • How to identify value that your business needs most right now and where to look for it in your supplier base
  • What it takes to engage a supplier in creating even more value for your business – what’s in it for them?
  • How to develop sustainable results with the supplier to keep stakeholders happy longer
  • 18:00 Top Take-Aways from the Chairmen

    Receive a professional wrap up from Marco as he explains what he learnt and what you can take away from today’s sessions in 5 easy-to-implement points.