Key QuotesWorld Procurement Congress 2016

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Amanda Davies, CPO Europe Eurasia, Mars Chocolate

“Procurement transformation starts with how youwalk into the office every day”

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Eliza Manningham-Buller, Former Head, MI5

“What’s important in a leader?Be yourself, don’t try to put yourself in a mould”

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Jean-Christophe Deville, Purchasing Director, Toyota Motor Europe

“Mutual trust is necessary at the top but alsoat a working level … it takes two for a win-win”

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Gregoire Letort, CPO, Electrolux

“90% of new ideas come from potential suppliers outside the existing network; only 10% are found inside”

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Roger Gonourie, CPO, Swiss RE Group

“We don’t need a seat at the table, we need to throw the dinner parties”

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Peter Carlsson, Former CPO, Tesla Motors

“Radical supplier relationship strategies are necessary to keep speed of innovation”

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Tom Linton, CPO, Flex

“Real-time information is a requirement: Live. Fast. Intelligent.”

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Nikolaus Kirner, CPO, Thomas Cook

“You have to get close to internal and external customers and key suppliers. You have to align procurement strategy towards the business strategy”

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Sidney Johnson, SVP Global Supply Management, Delphi

“Speed is everything in our business. Ability to react to problems or predict at speed. It is the differentiator”

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Kenneth Crukier, Data Editor, The Economist

“We are moving to a digitised enterprise led by value creators and thought leaders. We are going to transform our enterprise and our industry together”

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Sandro Scharlibbe, CPO, Brose

When describing introducing SEI: “Giving creativity a structure”

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Stuart Hayward-Higham, Technical Development Director, Suez UK

“You have to accept failure. For every 10 innovation projects we expect 1 to work”

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John O’Connor, VP Supply Chain, Cisco

“What we are negotiating on and buying is changing very quickly. Procurement may not make sense in this new world. We have to offer leverage and scale”

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Nadia Malek, Senior Director Supply Chain, Cirque du Soleil

“When selling into stakeholders, you need to speak their language if you want to change things”

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Josh Ghaim, Chief Technology Officer, Johnson & Johnson

“Supplier Enabled Innovation is no longer a competitive advantage. It has become a necessity”

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Mike Boyle, Data Head of Indirect Procurement Services, BAE Systems

“Providing the best value for our customers is central to the way we do business”

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Nadia Malek, Senior Director Supply Chain, Cirque du Soleil

“Procurement's secret weapon is data ... use it as your key to create an automatic dialogue”

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Tom Seal, Head of Research, Procurement Leaders

“It’s the low impact events that cost us. Not the black swans […] when it comes to risk we are more likely to be hit by a ripple than a wave”

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Chuck Hatsis, CPO, Groupon

“We need to be thinking not just about evolutionary thinking, but revolutionary thinking”

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