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New Feature – Vendor Showcases
 
A great opportunity to view procurement solutions in a neutral environment.
 
One major benefit of attending a conference such as this is the opportunity to meet and review the offerings of service providers to the profession in a neutral environment. However, it is not always possible to get a full understanding of the product while talking at the supplier’s exhibition booth. In the past this has meant arranging a follow-up appointment to view the product in more detail.
 
A new feature at the 5th Annual Conference, the Vendor Showcases, allow delegates to view an extended demonstration of procurement solutions with their peers in a neutral non-sales environment. The Vendor Showcases are scheduled to run for 30 minutes, during some of the longer breaks in the main conference programme, using two of the seminar rooms.
 
Vendor Showcase 1
 

 
Yarris – web based services management 
 
Garden Room 2 &3 – 1.15 – 1.45pm 14th October (Day 1)
 
The Western world is now a services-based economy.  Services acquisition has become increasingly relevant to the procurement professional. 
 
IT systems to procure goods are commonplace, but managing services procurement and contractors is much more complex. Many outsourced business functions are mission critical.  Businesses need robust processes to ensure that they ‘buy right’, mitigate business risks, remove ‘maverick’ spend, and manage contracted services to drive outcomes.
 
By attending this Vendor Showcase you will discover how the Yarris software solution uniquely enables businesses to procure and manage services.  
 

During the Vendor Showcase we will demonstrate how Customers use the Yarris platform to manage the whole engagement, fulfilment, administration and payment process from end-to-end, securing the following benefits in the process:

If you want to understand better how you can secure these benefits, please join us in Garden Room 2 & 3 at 5.45pm

Readily configurable to a wide variety of business needs, Yarris integrates with any other enterprise solutions such as asset management systems and enterprise resource management systems. 

Vendor Showcase 2
 

How Best in Class Companies Reduce Costs During an Economic Downturn
 
River Room 2 – 1.15 – 1.45pm 14th October (Day 1)
 
“We may be witnessing an economic cycle which may be one in 50 or possible 100 year event” - Alan Greenspan.
 
Regardless of your organization’s industry or vertical, everyone is being affected by these turbulent economic times.  Most companies must take dramatic actions to continue to provide bottom line results and some just to survive.
 
Ariba Inc will introduce what the most profitable global companies are doing during these interesting and challenging times in regards to spend reduction and spend management. Learn what policy and procedures they have instituted to reduce all spend across their organizations in order to assist them in maintaining their profitability.
 
Additionally, a high profile and very well known Australian client will also talk about how they are incorporating best in class practices in controlling and monitoring spending activity across a large organization. This will include detailing the lessons they are learning along the way. They will share practices that all companies should be embracing and implementing, not only because of the current economic crisis but also to assist in delivering the best possible results for management and shareholders.
 
As specialists in the reduction of commodity spend for the C-level executives of all organizations, Ariba Inc’s showcase will provide insights on to how undertake strategic cost reduction steps to source and procure commodities for the entire organization. Providing full visibility to manage your company’s contracts and your company’s spend, the real world application of Ariba technology will show you just how Fortune 100s, Private Companies and Public Sector alike are achieving savings of multiple million dollars whilst enforcing compliance.
 
Vendor Showcase 3
 
 
Symphony Solutions -  Maximising procurement benefits for SAP users.
Garden Room 2 & 3 - 5.45-6.15pm - 14th October (Day 1)
 
Do you use SAP and want to :
  • Streamline your Sourcing Process
  • Improve Supplier Management 
  • Obtain Greater Supplier Discounts
  • and, most importantly….
  • Instill Repeatable Best Practices in your organization?

Symphony Solutions have a range of products and services to help you achieve these goals!

In particular, our SAP Vendor Portal is a web-based portal for Buyer-Supplier Information Exchange and is integrated tightly to SAP

The Vendor Portal provides a single web interface for your suppliers to log-in and view open orders and queries as well as to submit information to you such as electronic invoices, delivery notifications, schedules, acknowledgements and more.

These communications are sent directly to and from your SAP system thus allowing rapid interaction between you and your vendors.

Communicate electronically with your suppliers to reduce lead times, increase accuracy and to reduce the manual data processing burden from within your business.

The SAP Vendor Portal comprises the following components:

  • Vendor Co-Ordination - communicate purchase orders to your suppliers rapidly online.  Receive acknowledgements and delivery schedules directly into SAP.
  • Vendor Invoice Entry - enable suppliers to submit their invoices online against the Purchase Orders. These documents will be transmitted directly in to SAP.
  • Dynamic Discount Manager - allow suppliers to choose whether to accept an early payment from you in return for accepting a discount.
  • Dispute Manager - maintain a documented dialogue of actions surrounding disputed invoices or orders.

Come and see why many of the world’s most successful companies have implemented our products , the benefits they have realised and learn about global best practices.  

 
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