CPO & CSCO ANZ Hybrid Series - November Edition 2022
Remodelling a Dynamic Strategy for Procurement and Supply Chain
Hosted by Factor
- 200 attendees
- 34500 hours
Overview
We have seen inflation at an all time high which has subsequently resulted in generating the hype behind the instability and volatility of the global supply chain network. As we prepare to leave 2022 behind us, what are some of the challenges and opportunities that stands to create a dynamic shift for the procurement function?
The challenging market conditions over the last couple of years have given procurement and supply chain the opportunity to demonstrate a wide range of capabilities. From mitigating supply chain risk to identifying alternate supplier networks, tracking and recognising the sustainable options and optimising performance with implementation.
During this final Sit-Down for 2022 we will be discussing how procurement has firmly positioned itself as as a strategic partner. With the recent challenging global trends, changing industry ecosystems and digital transformations, the supply chain function has redefined innovation to address these complexities on a global scale.
What to expect
- In-depth Interactions 1:1
- In-person Attendees 150+
- Speakers 20+
- Practitioners : Vendors 20:1
- 20+ Sessions Full Day Program
What we will cover
- Mitigating Supplier Risks Challenging the resiliency and stability while understanding the risk consequences to ensure business continuity
- Modern Solutions for an Alternate Supplier Network Leveraging AI automation to broaden the supplier network while enhancing market Intelligence
- Tracking Sustainability Performance The directives and commitments towards a bold, decisive and a comprehensive environmental agenda.
- Integration and Implementation- The future of procurement While technology adoption was the highlight of 21-22, the focus is now on implementation and integration processes.
Agenda
- You’ve got this: Using tech to tackle the CFOs toughest tasks in 2023(Plenary) Digital transformation, forecasting, a tight labour market and the ever-growing challenge of cybercrime – all set against a backdrop of stubbornly high inflation. These are some of the most critical areas impacting the daily lives of CFOs in 2022 and beyond. This session covers several realistic challenges facing CFOs and how ANZ companies are utilising Cloud ERP to address them. From harnessing and protecting the volume, value, and sensitivity of data to streamlining processes with automation and adapting to emerging business models, join us as we provide a path to prioritise your mission-critical tasks.
- Policy Advice - Talking to CPO and CFO's and Helping with the Risks(Plenary) Since productivity growth has contributed almost all of Australia’s improvement in material living standards since federation, it is essential that the productivity slowdown is arrested and turned around if Australians are to enjoy continued increases in living standards, social disadvantage is to be reduced and the Australian and global environments are to be preserved and repaired. Join this session as we cover: What are the things key issues that CPO's want to watch out for Early warning signs What 2023 has in store for us and the difficulties we will be faced with Government budget, and the impact that will have on all organisations
- A CFO’s Perspective: Managing Operations Through Turbulent Times(Plenary) Operations teams within financial services organisations are constantly under pressure to drive out costs and become more efficient. It's like white noise with annual budget cycles always pushing for further reductions. The next 12 months will be different. With tough economic times ahead, the challenge for operations teams will be even more acute as we CFOs will be looking for savings from our biggest cost centres – and operations is one of the largest. In this session, we’ll explore the questions CFOs can ask their operations leaders as we look to partner with operations to drive savings.
- Morning Tea & Networking Break(Plenary)
- Driving Digital Transformation: How Financial Software Optimises Your Close - Trintech(Plenary) The heightened need for software solutions to connect employees and departments over the last year has resulted in a new level of acceptance and expectation for digitization across every aspect of an organization. For finance teams specifically, digital transformation is no longer an aspirational goal but instead is a requirement to building resilience and effectively supporting the wider business. What is needed is financial software that is flexible enough to accommodate ever changing requirements— a solution that allows CFOs and Controllers to track what their team is working on, what the status of those tasks are, and enables real-time visibility and access to documentation and commentary during the entire close cycle.
- Cultivating Your Executive Presence(Plenary) The Back office role is constantly evolving, with an important element now being as a change agent within the organisation, and to lead successfully in this space it is essential that you cultivate your executive presence. The term executive presence can feel very nebulous and intangible so in this session we will explore what it is and strategies for how you can cultivate it so that you can be more influential and inspiring in your role as a leader, which will enable you to make the contribution that is important to you. Join this session to learn about: The evolving CFO goal How CFO’s have transformed from accounting and financial reporting, too now – digital transformation investments relations Boards engagement What is required for you to be a better leader
- Value creator: the next evolution of finance - Workday(Plenary) Three in four CFOs are focused on driving enterprise-wide transformation. The role of Finance is evolving from managing transactions to driving strategy, CFOs now oversee digital transformation, ESG strategies, and enabling talent with the right skills for the future. Join this session to explore a roadmap for leaders seeking to combine the best talent with the best technology, to successfully redefine the finance function. Workday’s Marise Maltman, will discuss the role of technology to deliver the next evolution of Finance and how CFOs are leveraging data, technology, talent and automation to deliver profitable growth.
- 3 Challenges CPOs Must Overcome In 2022 And Beyond(Plenary) During this edition we get together with Andres Naranjo of Coates Hire to discuss the 3 challenges CPOs must overcome in the year ahead and what the general landscape looks like 2023. Join us for this session as Andres takes us through a 20-minute journey to discuss: Talent and workforce Sustainability - diversity and supply chain CPO’s role in active peer networking and development
- Lunch & Networking Break(Plenary)
- The new security standard for business payments - Eftsure(Plenary)
- Working with small businesses as your competitive advantage(Plenary) During this edition we get together with Brett Nolan of Tourism Australia to unwrap the importance of working with small businesses as your competitive advantage. When it comes to the preferred supplier, procurement in enterprise and government more often that tend to lean towards the multinationals and enterprise providers because of the security and certainty they come with. The benefits that working with small businesses, especially within the public sector, are often forgotten. Join us during this session as we dive deep and explore case studies that have benefited organisations with this very approach.
- Key Pillars of Procurement Excellence - Wolters Kluwer(Plenary) As digital trends disrupt the supply chain, business leaders are being forced to rethink their traditional operating models. Armed with automation, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), procurement will be empowered to manage more complex categories to unlock new areas of value, while keeping downstream transactional activities seamless and efficient.Surviving in the digital reality will require procurement to move beyond bottom-line efficiency by embracing digital and transforming the supply chain to become a valuable strategic business partner. In this session we will focus on the key pillars of procurement excellence to add value in the age of digital disruption. The current business climate is essential to driving procurement transformation, integrating data and digital to operate on new levels The top challenges faced by the CPOs and CSCOs when setting out to redefine the processes, and the steps towards streamlining them Business partnering – how to equip people with the necessary skills and technology.
- Fireside chat: The evolution of the CFO, Re-defining What Finance Can Be.(Plenary) The role of finance can still be seen as what it once was. Over the last few decades, the role of the CFO has undergone a profound shift. The historical tasks of the finance function such as books and records, financial reporting, and statutory compliance continue to be important but there is a next step to be explored. During this we get together with Genevieve MacDonald of Wunderman Thompson to discuss the evolution of the finance teams, the shift in responsibilities and processes that have led to positive impact in the way the finance function operations and collaborates with other business units. Join this session to gain insights into: Where to start from in moving away from the traditional role of the CFO The impact of this journey The transparency we create as finance teams and the value in clarity for the larger organisation
Speakers
Sue Rosen · Director, Sue Rosen Executive Coaching Are you a CFO ready to take your leadership to the next level? Are you a finance leader looking to step up into the next role? Are you frustrated by your apparent inability to move up into a higher leadership role? Leaders are under huge pressure to deliver results, implement new technologies, update processes, mentor their teams, as well as juggling their family commitments and managing their own health and wellbeing. As well as this leaving us feeling overwhelmed there can be a huge amount of stress from dealing with high stakes situations. This combination of stress and being overwhelmed can take its toll, as we get dragged down into the weeds when we actually need a birds eye view. And as we rise up the ladder it is also very easy to feel isolated, and without the sounding board we need. And being isolated, stressed and overwhelmed has huge consequences for our ability to influence and have impact. I am passionate about helping my clients to create a strategic pause in their work life: to be the sounding board, hold up a mirror so that they can see their blindspots, challenge them to pivot when old beliefs and behaviours are not effective and hold them accountable for their progress. I help them to get clarity around their values, purpose and goals so that they can be authentic, effective and fulfilled as leaders. I bring mindfulness and compassion to my coaching conversations but never shy away from challenging my clients to move beyond their comfort zone. I have been a CFO so I speak your language and have a deep understanding of the corporate context. I am particularly passionate about inspiring courage and compassion so that we bring greater diversity and inclusion to our workplaces.
Brett Nolan · Head of Procurement, Tourism Australia
Genevieve MacDonald · CFO Australia, Wunderman Thompson
Gavin Bain · National Consulting Director, Wunderman Thompson
Kenneth Ken · CFO, Annexa • As a highly experienced financial leader, Ken heads up Annexa’s finance team. His ability to quickly analyse key business drivers, develop innovative solutions, and adapt and execute financial strategies has been instrumental for Annexa’s growth initiatives. An engaging leader with a track record for building and inspiring high performing teams, Ken and his team take Annexa’s financial data and use it to influence sustainable financial practices to drive Annexa forward.
Paddy Deller · Group CFO, ActiveOps Paddy has over 20 years’ experience in senior finance roles across the technology sector. He joined the Group as CFO in September 2015 and previously worked at Cable & Wireless where he was CFO of various international divisions
Jennifer O'Brien · Founder of Stories Ink, Stories Ink Well-known business and technology journalist, Jennifer O’Brien, is the founder of Stories Ink, a content creation and event hosting business. O’Brien originally cut her teeth in the world of channel reporting, initially in her hometown of Toronto, before venturing to Australia in 20003 and joining IDG’s ARN magazine as journalist, features editor, events editor and associate editor. For over 25 years, she has covered the business and technology sector as a journalist, editor, content creator and event host and moderator for more titles including CIO Australia, CMO Australia, Computerworld Australia, and for various magazines and newspapers globally in Canada, and in Northern Ireland including The Ulster Star. With her extensive experience in both the channel and enterprise arena, O’Brien is a well-known face on the circuit as a speaker, event host and moderator for hundreds of executive roundtables, breakfast summits, panel discussions, Gala dinners, awards ceremonies, conferences, webinars, networking dinners, and specially themed events during her more than 15 years, working as senior writer, features editor, events editor and associate editor at IDG (now Foundry). As an experienced content creator, writer, communicator and public speaker, O’Brien has found her niche weaving ‘human-led’ storytelling into the realm of business and technology.
Partners
- eftsure Eftsure is a leader in fraud detection and payment protection. Our pioneering fraudtech solution brings financial controls into the digital age and helps organisations of all sizes mitigate the risk of incorrectly processing (EFT) payments, whether as a result of cybercrime, fraud or human error. Eftsure’s unique approach allows its customers to cross-reference payment information in real-time, immediately prior to processing them, against an ever-expanding network of over 2.5 million Australian organisations. In a world in which scammers are actively adopting new fraud tactics, such as social engineering, phishing and Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, Eftsure helps supports organisations to remain secure. With Eftsure, organisations acquire peace of mind knowing that EFT payments are being directed to the intended recipient and that they’re avoiding the growing risk of human error and digital fraud.
- ActiveOps ActiveOps, A Management Process Automation Software Company . ActiveOps' platform – including Workware+, the Active Operations Management (AOM) Method and OpsIndex – provides real-time employee productivity monitoring and workforce management technologies for a 360° view of your operations – both digital and human. ActiveOps can transform operational effectiveness and embed improvements in processes to manage whatever challenges lie ahead. By providing managers access to data and insight at the right time, in the right context, enables them to transform productivity, secure employee wellbeing and create a platform for confident, constant transformation and market leadership.
- Trintech At Trintech, we pride ourselves on providing enterprise-class financial solutions for the Record to Report process to organizations committed to transforming their financial process to best in class levels of efficiency and effectiveness. We understand the deadlines, dynamics and challenges of managing the Record to Report process.
- Annexa Annexa are 5-star NetSuite solution providers, working with forward thinking companies across Australia and New Zealand who are ready to take their business systems to the next level. Annexa are well-versed in the design and implementation of revolutionary cloud technology, geared towards promoting business growth and sustainability. With in-house NetSuite experts adept at helping businesses navigate the latest technologies, Annexa help identify business challenges, develop solutions, implement systems and provide ongoing support, ensuring business growth and sustainable change.
- Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in professional information, software solutions, and services for the health, tax & accounting, finance, risk & compliance, and legal sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services. CCH Tagetik, a part of the Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting division, provides solutions to CFOs for Corporate Performance Management. For over 20 years, CCH Tagetik has collaborated with finance organizations to optimize multiple business processes including budgeting, planning & forecasting, consolidation, reporting, analysis and disclosure management in one unified platform, available on Cloud and On-Premise. We have implemented a full range of Corporate Performance Management processes including more than 2500 applications at more than 1300 customers across various industries. Recently recognised by Gartner as the Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning & Analysis Solutions (FP&A) and 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Close Solutions (FC), and we are ranked among the highest level of customer satisfaction in the market every year. CCH® Tagetik is one of the fastest growing global software companies in the industry. A global vendor exclusively focused on simplifying and streamlining business processes for the CFO and the Office of Finance.
- Workday Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance, HR, and planning. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, and analytics applications designed for the world’s largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Organizations ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises have selected Workday.
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