

Industry 4.0 requires Procurement 4.0
Obvious impacts of digitalization on procurement: More integrated and automated processes across the value chain, a portfolio shift towards new technology and service contracts in the portfolio, deeper levels of connectivity and data and an optimized supply chain with better transportation flows, inventories, warehouse requirements and quality inspections.
But even more important: Digital business model innovation requires procurement to offer new value contributions to suppliers, customers and internal partners. Industry 4.0 blurs the boundaries between R&D, manufacturing and procurement. With its in-depth data-based knowledge of suppliers and their markets, products and innovations, procurement plays a more active role in innovation processes. This active role includes sharing knowhow and information with internal teams, suppliers and customers in an open and integrated collaborative environment. This role can also be monetized through genuinely procurement-driven services and business models.
Topics
- Procurement strategy
- Rethinking procurement’s value proposition
- Procurement 4.0 roadmap and transformation
- The procurement 4.0 organization – how does it look like?
- Rethinking the value chain: bidirectional, connected, cooperative
- Innovation-driven collaboration
- End-to-end transparency
- Advanced guided procurement
- Deeper ERP integration
- Realtime data analytics / predictive analytics
- Data ownership and intellectual property (IP) challenges
- Data governance and security
- Data standardization – status quo and outlook
- Supplier risk management
- Onboarding supplier data to a digital supply chain
- Toolbox Procurement 4.0 (planning, sourcing, contracts, order delivery, payments, SRM)
- Talents needed for Procurement 4.0 and how to find them
Interactive Networking Format
- Cutting-edge Strategies and Use Cases
- Strategic Insights
- Successful Business Models and Use Cases
- Matchmaking and One on One Meetings (optional)
- Online Community with slides archive and videos (unlimited access)
Very meaningful event for know-how transfer, strategy definition and networking in an intimate, productive and easy-going environment. I received very good inputs for my digital strategy and defined new brilliant starting points. Looking forward to the next event.
Katharina Uribe Casillas, VP Global Business Development Automotive & Industrial, Kuehne + Nagel Management AG
Thank you for facilitating this amazingly well informed conference. I have took and learned a lot from it.
Muftah Benomran, CEO, Rural Concepts Group
This event was super! All talks have been inspiring. I learned a lot. Thanks for this.
Franziska Mair, Senior Manager Digital Innovation, PAUL HARTMANN AG
Thank you – very good event with interesting presentations – I can fully recommend it.
Lars Erdmann, Partner, Q_Perior AG
Thank you very much for a really entertaining and very exciting day delivering ideas and inspirations on various levels.
Stefan Jörgens, Director R&D, Albrecht JUNG GmbH & Co.KG

Priya Agrawal, Project Lead "Living Wage", Unilever
How Unilever Utilizes Procurement as an Agent for Social Change
- Our conceptual understanding of procurement activities designed to have a social impacts
- These commitments are a step beyond Responsible Sourcing Policies (which have been rolled out long before)
- What impacts do we want to have in our supply chains?
- What is the role of procurement in achieving these impacts?
- Deeper collaboration with our suppliers is key to achieve the goals
- This new kind of partnerships fundamentally change our supplier relationships

Nils Brauckmann, Head of Global Procurement, Trivago
How to Accelerate Innovation in Procurement
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11:15 | Workshop 1 TBA ![]() | Workshop 2 TBA ![]() | Oder persönliches Networking - Verabreden Sie individuelle Termine über unsere App![]() |
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14:30 | Coffee Break with Networking | ![]() | ![]() |
15:00 | Workshop 1 TBA ![]() | Workshop 2 TBA ![]() | Oder persönliches Networking - Verabreden Sie individuelle Termine über unsere App![]() |
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