Swiss “Procurement 4.0” power – Book Release in Zurich

Pro­cu­re­ment 4.0 will chan­ge dra­ma­ti­cal­ly “what we buy” – and “how we buy”. Lea­ding Swiss Pro­cu­re­ment Pro­fes­sio­nals from flagships like @ABB, @Amcor, @Glencore, @Roche or @Daniel Swa­rov­ski dis­cus­sed with us during our @h&z Manage­ment Con­sul­ting “Pro­cu­re­ment 4.0” book release at the his­to­ri­cal @Hotel Wid­der in Zurich on May 4th.

@Ralf Schulz, Part­ner at h&z, and co-aut­hor of the book descri­bed the major impact of Indus­try 4.0 on the pro­cu­re­ment func­tion. “Pro­cu­re­ment will increa­se its cor­po­ra­te value signi­fi­cant­ly as an inno­va­ti­on ’cata­lyst’ by lin­king sup­pliers value con­tri­bu­ti­on to ensu­re mar­ket lea­dership and com­pa­ny growth. In a time whe­re exter­nal value crea­ti­on will reach up to 70–80% pro­cu­re­ment will more than ever be a key C-Level func­tion.”

@Jochen Wey­andt, Exe­cu­ti­ve Vice Pre­si­dent and Head of Busi­ness Unit Auto­mo­ti­ve Solu­ti­ons @ OC Oer­li­kon AG, exp­lai­ned that it is key to iden­ti­fy the engi­nee­ring ide­as of the sup­plier base and to work per­man­ent­ly toge­ther on inno­va­tions. He pro­c­lai­med #SEI (sup­plier enab­led inno­va­ti­on) is key to suc­cess and his first com­man­dment for data ana­ly­tics is:, “you have to keep your mas­ter data clean first – befo­re you can enter into har­ve­s­ting your data trea­su­res”.

Deep insights were then fol­lo­wed by inspi­ring dis­cus­sions with all par­ti­ci­pants. To dis­co­ver the stra­te­gy of Ralf Schulz to keep up with the latest chal­len­ges of digi­ta­li­za­ti­on.