Day 1
- Wednesday 29th August, 2012
8:00
Registration, coffee & networking
8:30
Welcome to Country
Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council
8:40
Welcoming remarks from the Chair
Defining category management
8:50
Practical category management
- The Defence category management model
- Our findings, achievements and challenges
- The next steps and what we plan to do
9:30
Defining value for money & how to measure it
- Outlining strategic category management
- Understanding the spend
- Optimising the return on supply investment
- Achieving effective and efficient delivery and demonstration of value for money
10:05
Threshold management
- A risk based approach to procurement category management
10:40
Morning tea & networking
11:10
Achieving a strategic supply partnership
- Building a collaborative relationship through category management
- Outlining the application of technology in managing categories
- A case study: Managing categories
11:50
Overcoming challenges of category management
12:20
The journey to centre led procurement in local government
- Outlining how to category manage
- Ensuring efficient category management
- The importance of contract governance
- Setting trends to move forward
12:55
Networking lunch
Procurement innovation & different models
1:55
Payments optimisation – improving accounts payable efficiency
- What’s wrong with the traditional AP process?
- Measuring the optimisation benefits
- Implementation case study
2:35
Roundtable discussions
Delegates will break into groups to discuss key challenges and focus areas addressed on day one
3:15
Construction procurement
- Understanding the issues
- Understanding the risks
- Determining the options
- Knowing how to make the choice
3:50
Afternoon tea & networking
4:20
Building procurement capability to drive procurement value
- Defining and selling procurement value
- Building the blocks for procurement capability
- Developing the right procurement strategy
- Building success
4:55
Procurement within the tertiary education sector
- Centralising procurement
- Knowing the similarities with government procurement processes
- Creating a more streamlined process
5:30
Close of day one
Day 2
- Thursday 30th August, 2012
8:00
Welcome, coffee & networking
8:30
Welcoming remarks from the Chair
Reducing red tape with risk management
8:40
Managing major projects in Customs
- Using risk management to cut the project overhead
- Engaging technical risk early
- Outlining change management and capability realisation
- Ensuring early planning of business transition
9:40
Strategies to navigate complex procurement – an infrastructure case study
- The risks of complex procurement
- Strategies to mitigate risk
- Doing this in a public sector context
10:15
Clarifying how the government buys
- The procurement process and how it can become more efficient
- Outlining reduction of red tape respective of risk issues
- Ensuring efficient on-boarding of suppliers respective of markets and risk
- A case study: Becoming a fully staffed and trained centralised procurement function
10:50
Morning tea & networking
E-Procurement
11:20
Presentation by Visa Worldwide Pty Ltd
12:00
Entrepreneurial category management & e-procurement
How to best deliver results by partnering with vendors to:
- Catalogue and conduct electronic trading
- Train users in buying from catalogues and e-procurement
- Provide strategic catalogue and e-procurement solutions
12:35
How to define value for money & measure it
1:05
Networking lunch
2:05
New technologies & transparency in the e-procurement process
- Outlining key case studies in e-procurement
- Using e-procurement systems to analyse, predict and report
- Presenting the future of the procurement function and e-procurement tools
2:40
Roundtable discussions
Delegates will break into groups to discuss key challenges addressed during the conference
3:20
Afternoon tea & networking
3:50
IT sourcing & procurement
- Overcoming key issues
- Dealing with departmental procurement policy
- Building a more streamlined IT procurement process
Responsibilities & accountability with business owners
4:25
Assisting small businesses to supply to government
- Outlining benefits and struggles
- Illustrating the e-quotation system case study
5:00
Close of conference
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