Practice Management; Improving capability

Network Outputs - Procurement & Supply Chain

Meeting Details

Host: The Caledonian Club

Venue: The Caledonian Club, 9 Halkin Street, SW1X

Theme: Practice Management; Improving Procurement Capability

Guest Speakers: Carphone Warehouse and LV=

Innovation and Research group 78

Members of this group look to address the following areas:

1. Development and maintenance of practice management models.
2. Best practice in ensuring compliance between the sourcing process and sourcing people.
3. What's next for practice management?

Meeting Agenda: Procurement and supply chain innovation lunch

12:30 Arrival lunch and Networking

13:00 Welcome, introductions and overview

Barry Donovan, Network Facilitator, ITW Networks

Procurement capability is directly linked to the effectiveness of the supporting systems, the processes and the governance controls. This area of capability is often referred to as practice management and the session will explore best practice and learning to date on this increasingly important topic.

13:15 Best Practice Debate 1

Practice Management; Improving the Procurement capability

The group will hold a round table debate exploring the practices and experiences of guests. The Carphone Warehouse and LV= will start the debate by sharing their experiences in the subject. During the session the group will highlight some of the key areas that Practice Management has been applied to, including:

• Managing compliance to Procurement process
• Demand management
• Savings management
• Reporting - performance, KPI's knowledge management
• Process development

The focus will be on network group members sharing their experiences in these often overlooked areas of the Procurement Directors' responsibility

With Q&A throughout.

15:00 Coffee, refreshments and networking

15:15 Best Practice Debate 2

Key Development areas for the practice manager

This debate will look at the demands of a maturing procurement department – and how the practice manager (or similar) can respond by improving process and systems.

Areas of particular focus:

• Sourcing Process
• Contract management
• Personalisation of procurement knowledge
• Supplier management

16:15 Summary of Key points. What have we achieved/ learnt from the debates? Are these areas requiring future investigation emerging? Close

16:25 Preview of next IRG and potential discussion topics

16:30 Close