2010 Indirect Spend China Summit on Mar 17, 2010 8:30 AM

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:30:00 GMT

2010 Indirect Spend China Summit
Start Date: Mar 17, 2010 8:30 AM
End Time: Mar 17, 2010 5:30 PM
Location: Renaissance Shanghai Zhongshan Park Hotel
Speaker: Elemica, Mayer Brown, HP, Alstom, Bayer Healthcare, Tyco Electronics, Siemens, GE, Schneider Electric

Event Details:

Learn to Leverage Indirect Spend in Your China Operations

Even though statistics have shown that indirect spend represent one of the biggest portions of corporate spending, few organisations have sufficient visibility into services costs as they do for goods and materials.

Service procurement can be a black hole of unsourced buying, lost savings opportunities, and limited oversight from the purchasing department. It is difficult for procurement professionals to control this often complex and fragmented part of the strategic sourcing process. In fact, procurement has fast become a competitive differentiator between companies, so you, as the procurement leaders will need to plan your pathways and strategies now.

Organized for the 4th year, the Indirect Spend China Summit will be the ideal event for procurement executives to exchange best practices and accelerate services and MRO procurement strategies in China. This summit is specially designed to cover sessions on planning, change management, standardisation of services processes, key success factors, service performance measurements and supplier relationship management to help you understand and take advantage of the opportunities and challenges involved in purchasing services to achieve hard-dollar cost savings and to improve procurement process efficiency, control, and cost in your organisation in China.

This summit will provide you with case studies and presentations from leading procurement executives. Recognizing that all indirect spend categories have different infrastructures and requirements, this entire day will be built around targeting and managing each spend category individually. Indirect categories are ‘like raising kids - each one has a different dynamic’, as Mike Rager (at Tyco International) puts it.

As this area of procurement becomes increasingly strategic within China's organisations, learn how you can be a leader in this field, and discuss key issues such as procuring complex services, outsourcing, compliance management, contract management, e-procurement programmes, and transformation case studies.

Key benefits for attending the conference:
• Understanding the differences between services vs goods procurement
• Developing measurements for services procurement that work in China
• Overcoming the challenges in procurement of services
• Dealing with quality in services delivery
• Gaining control over and reducing your marketing services spend
• Optimising your corporate travel program in Asia
• Reviewing recent trends in IT outsourcing
• Capturing savings in freights and logistics services category
• Applying strategic sourcing to "people services" procurement
• Optimising supplier relationship management

This summit is the event designed specifically for procurement profesionnals in China, so if you want to be a leader in indirect procurement, this is the one event in your calendar that is an absolute must.

Why our events different from other organizers?
- Best Value For Money: why should you pay more than US$ 1,000 for a summit when the Council provides the same format, quality and speakers, 5-stars hotel setting for a fraction of that cost!
- Convenient 1-Day Format: get the essential knowledge and key contacts you need in just 1 day!
- Unrivalled Knowledge: unlike other conferences organizers, we do truly understand procurement and sourcing, it's our main and only focus.
- Medium-Size Events for Better Interaction and Networking: our events offer an intimate, interactive experience which is unique to the Council.
- We respect Your Privacy: unlike other conference organizers, we don't have telemarketing people working on endless listings who annoy people with phone calls.
> Click here to see more about why the Council are different.

Who Will Attend?

Over 25,000 executives will be invited through direct mailing, advertising and promotion over the next few months. VP’s, Chief Officers, Managing Directors, Directors, General Managers, Managers and Heads of Responsibility in: Procurement, Purchasing, Sourcing and Contracts, Finance, Transport, Travel and Supplier Relationship Management.

Join the Council along with industry experts and world-class procurement executives for a vital summit on indirect and services procurement, an analysis of its development in China, and what it takes to turn services spend into a competitive edge for your company.

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2010 Indirect Spend China Summit on Mar 17, 2010 8:30 AM