Procurement at Sapphire/ASUG 2009
Orlando, May 11 – 14
Orange County Convention Center
Procurement Activities At-a-Glance
Procurement and SRM Presentations
| Schedule | Title | Speaker(s) | Location |
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| Tuesday, May 12, 2009 |
| 10:30 AM-11:30 AM | SAP Presents Procurement Excellence Using SAP Business Suite | Jud, Michael | ASUG - S310A |
| 10:30 AM-11:30 AM | Driving Results through On-Demand | Customer Panel | Sapphire - Success in the New Reality Village |
| 2:00 PM-3:00 PM | Improving Usability of SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) | Genentech | Sapphire - Strategic IT Village |
| 2:00 PM-3:00 PM | SAP Supplier Relationship Management 7.0 – Overview and Ramp-up | Jud, Michael and Rajagopalan, Lalitha | ASUG - S310A |
| 3:30 PM-4:30 PM | Wyeth and SAP Present: Managing Subcontract and Outsourced Manufacturing with ERP and Business Intelligence | Gerber, Stefan and Kelly, Jim | ASUG - S310A |
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| Wednesday, May 13, 2009 |
| 10:30 AM-11:30 AM | Understanding the Value of Reverse Auctions with WE Energies | Boisclair, Rosemary and DeVeau, Gail | ASUG - S310A |
| 2:00 PM-3:00 PM | Driving Compliance with an Integrated Sourcing Solution with Lennox International | Boisclair, Rosemary and Kelsey, Kathie | ASUG - S310A |
| 2:00 PM-3:00 PM | Managing Complex Services Procurement | Rajagopalan, Lalitha and Villar, Victor | ASUG - S310C |
| 2:00 PM-3:00 PM | The Road Map to Spend Analytics at Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products | Johnson & Johnson | Sapphire - Consumer Industries Village Theater |
| 3:30 PM-4:30 PM | Why Use a Purchase Order? One Size Does Not Fit All | Abella, Mario | ASUG - S310A |
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| Thursday, May 14, 2009 |
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Reducing Outsourced Manufacturing Cost and Risk at Tellabs | Tellabs and Bristlecone | Sapphire - Discrete Industires Village Theater |
| 10:30 AM-11:30 AM | Electronic Commerce in SAP SRM at Johns Hopkins: From 0 to 150 in 1.9 Years | Weeks, Dow | ASUG - S310A |
| 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | Contract Management in Procurement: Central Contract Management and Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) | Marchand, David and Seebauer, Florian | ASUG - S310A |
Demos
Achieve Cost Savings and Insight with End-to-End Sourcing and Procurement
Success in the New Reality Village pod
Learn how SAP helps to reduce bottom-line costs and increase savings by improving the effectiveness and flexibility of end to end source to pay processes for goods and services. By focusing on procurement operations forward looking companies are strengthening supplier relationships, reducing costs, and increasing their insight to improving their bottom-line.
Rapid Results through On-Demand
Success in the New Reality Village pod
Learn how SAP helps obtain rapid time-to-value with a low up-front investment through software as a service solutions. Discover how SAP enables companies to be insightful, efficient, and flexible enterprises faster. Close more deals and collect cash quickly and reduce costs by identifying and improving negotiable savings.
Public Administration – Procurement for Public Services
Public Services Village pod
Procurement spans a spectrum of activities, from the simplest one-time catalog order to complex, long-term contracts. Learn how public organizations and other customers operating in regulated environments can use SAP's Procurement for Public Sector to efficiently and effectively manage purchasing and contracts in a compliant and economical way.
Integrated Sourcing and Procurement
Trade Industries Village pod
Learn how to enable operational excellence and help turn procurement into a business-critical, strategic activity by automating and streamlining processes and extending collaboration to suppliers – leading to cost savings for all spending categories – with SAP Business Suite applications for purchasing.
Accelerate Savings in Procurement
Best Run Now Area pod
Learn how SAP helps you rapidly maximize cost savings by closing the loop between identified and negotiated savings. This results in increased spend under management, reduced costs and realized savings, and improved compliance with contracts and policies - all key to quickly driving a real impact to the bottom line.
Procurement Forum
Tuesday, May 12, 2:00pm-4:30pm
Orange County Convention Center, West Pavilion, Room 103A
Abstract:
The recent economic conditions require immediate cost reductions, and it's essential that Procurement delivers on savings. Learn directly from customers how SAP's portfolio of Procurement applications and value scenarios are delivering value. Through these real-world examples gain valuable insight into how SAP can help you deliver savings to the bottom line.
Meet Our Customers Pavilion
A combination of SAPPHIRE speakers and other SAP Procurement reference customers conduct scheduled, one-to-one and one-to-many executive reference meetings on-site at SAPPHIRE.
Value of the Business Suite 7 SAPPHIRE session
Customers will enjoy a unique opportunity to hear from our Business Suite launch partners (CapGemini, IBM, Wipro and Atos Origin), industry experts & Dow Corning and Florida Crystals and SAP. They will share how companies are able to execute strategies that either saved operational costs or stimulated productivity, without the complexity of managing multiple technology platforms.
By attending this session, participants will:
- Receive pragmatic advice based on customer implementation strategies and partner experience
- Hear expert advice from a leading industry analyst and enterprise software advisor - Jim Shepherd
- Gain insight into the value of SAP Business Suite 7
- Learn about other companies' advice as it relates to what applications to implement and adoption roadmap strategies
- Take advantage of a unique networking opportunity
Date:
May 11, 2009
Register:
Contact your Account Executive
