Manuel Palanca from ExceleratedS2P will be delivering the session Managing Supply Chain Risk is no easy task in the current environment. Surrounded by Political uncertainty, an unstable economic landscape, environmental challenges coupled with the standard supply chain issues we live day in day out.

How are leading organisations managing this risk? How are they using Technology to address these challenges? We will take a look at what good looks like and what the characteristics are of these Supply Chain Organisations?

The objective is to share a high level methodology to help understand where you are and discuss three recent case studies that can help shape thinking about where you should be heading:

• Using Advanced Analytics in a deeply complex Manufacturing environment
• Using Technology as an enabler to drive a change in Company Culture
• Procurement’s role in a modern S&OP environment

Jose Golosino from GSK will be sharing their experience of using SAP CLM to auto-generate Master Agreements and Contracts from a service request. The signature process for the contract generated is facilitated with a standard SAP integration with Adobe EchoSign.

Richard Wildgoose from SAP will present Direct Purchasing and the future of ECC covering SAPs latest offerings and what’s coming next. Richard will cover the following:

1. Overview of the procurement landscape.

Will cover the various options for procurement concentrating on the ERP functionality but also covering, at a high level, Concur and Fieldglass.

2. Enhancements in ERP.

Will go over the new functionality in enhancement pack 7: there was nothing between 4 and 6.

3. Enhancements in SRM.

Will cover the same for SRM 7 back to EHP3

4. Fiori apps.

This will cover Fiori apps that are available for use without a HANA database

5. The way forward.

Martin Crangle will present Five Landis Development in PO's.