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8.30 Registration tea and coffee
9.00 Opening remarks from ACEvents and the Chair
Alyson Eather, Senior Associate, DLA Phillips Fox
9.05 Sourcing and procurement best practice
Alan McDonnell, Procurement Manager AUS NZ, Downer EDI Engineering
9.35 Supplier Diversity
Procuring from Indigenous and minority owned businesses - coupling meaningful corporate social responsibility for corporations with engendering economic independence for the Indigenous community
Anthony Hollis, Chief Executive Officer, NSW Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce
Michael McLeod, Chief Executive Officer, Messagestick Communications
10.05 Morning tea
10.30 How can financial management systems be utilised to provide optimal business intelligence?
• Utilising a common platform to "monitor" procured services performance
• Low Cost / Low maintenance data analysis techniques
• How to gain confidence from executive management on dashboard performance reports
• Uncovering hidden performance indicators embedded within Organisational wide Finance Systems
• Translating financial information to effectively plan for services and commodity resource levels
Dr Paul Luciani, National Director Property & Procurement, Environment & Sustainability Services, Ernst & Young
11.00 [CASE STUDY] Mandatory condition in Government Tenders
11.30 E-procurement transformation – managing challenges and change
• Challenges in implementing an enterprise wide e-solution
• Improving efficiency through E-tendering
• Buy-in: providing an effective presentation to management
• Measuring return on investment
Luke Kenny, General Manager, NSW Procurement e-Business Solutions, Department of Commerce, NSW
12:00 Identifying and integrating risk management into your procurement strategy
• Risk as a key area for procurement input
• Developing controls to ensure a robust supply chain
• Developing an effective procurement risk management plan
• How to reduce risk along the supply chain
Peter Bishop, Director, ACOHS Risk Strategies
12.30 [CASE STUDY] Changing culture of procurement in an organisation that has gone from a Statutory Authority through to a public government agency
Brian Kildea, Legal Counsel, Chief Counsel Team, Australian Fisheries Management Authority
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Disclosure Requirements in the Government Procurement Process
• What is required to be disclosed to tenderers?
• Updates on the latest amendments to the Freedom of Information Amendment (Open Government – Disclosure of Contracts) Act 2006 (NSW)
• Case Studies: Griffin Energy Pty Ltd v Western Power Corporation [2006] FCA 1241 and Telstra Corporation Limited v Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts(No 3 [2007] FCA 1567
Alyson Eather, Senior Associate, DLA Phillips Fox
2.30 [Panel Discussion] Identifying the real issues in best practice procurement for government and private industry:
• “Greening” the procurement process
• Building key buyer negotiation skills
• Identifying the relationship between finance and procurement
• How important is auditing the procurement process
Phill Scott, Contracts Manager, Local Government Procurement
Rizwan Ullah, National Procurement Manager, Crown Equipment
Stephen Rowe, Chief Procurement Officer, Parmalat Australia
Alan McDonnell, Procurement Manager AUS NZ, Downer EDI Engineering
3.10 Afternoon tea
3.20 Tips for effective supplier appraisal
• avoiding appraisal degenerating into a mechanical administrative process
• ensuring the process is sufficiently rigorous for the category rather than the “best that can be done in the time available”
• relying upon secondary sources of information and not really understanding the supplier and their business
• capturing data about suppliers with no clear plan as to how to evaluate the suppliers using the data
• comparing suppliers against each other rather than against a common standard
Stephen Rowe, Chief Procurement Officer, Parmalat Australia
4.20 Recruiting procurement talent and addressing the skills shortage
• How serious is the problem and what is its source
• Recruitment strategies – opportunities and challenges
• Recruiting from overseas
• Cross skilling and recruiting from other disciplines
• What is a procurement professional worth?
Peter Tanner, Managing Director, Tanner Menzies (HR Procurement Specialists)
4.45 Closing remarks from Chair
4.50 End Day 1 – Network drinks begin |
