Key themes and topics

Here’s just a sample of what this year’s Boston Forum has to offer:

• Forum chairman - Rob Handfield, Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University

• Keynote sessions – from experienced speakers including:
  • Farryn Melton, CPO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, focusing on ‘Transforming the Organisation to Generate Value’;
  • Nick Gunn, SVP Global Procurement, Hewlett-Packard, debating
    ‘The Evolution of Procurement: Aligning with Customer Needs to Support and Enable Business Objectives’;
  • Gaurav Saini, MD and CPO, Morgan Stanley, evaluating
    ‘Applying Change Management to an Established Procurement Function to Realize Substantial Improvement’.
• Panel sessions – including ‘Developing a Holistic Approach to Risk Management’ where senior procurement executives in different areas of risk (Supplier, Commodity, Regulatory) explain how they measure risk, with the panel discussing how this can be combined into a single, holistic view
• Comparative Case Studies – a unique opportunity to compare how several leading FMCG companies have created Open Innovation projects to tap into fresh ideas from their supplier network Interactive
• Roundtables – on Strategic Sourcing, Generating Value, and CSR/Sustainability – where you do the talking, sharing your ideas, your challenges, and your solutions with your peers

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