How to build a resilient supply chain in uncertain times
Join this webinar, hosted in partnership with Coupa, as we explore how strategic sourcing can help build a resilient supply chain.
Before the current Covid-19 crisis, sourcing was all about pricing and savings. But when supply chains are in jeopardy, the priority is to keep company operations online by making sure those supply chains keep flowing.
A recent Covid-19 report from Rapid Ratings highlighted that companies in China, Korea and Italy make up 12% of a typical global company’s tier-one supply base. Even before the virus took hold in the rest of Western Europe, this is significant exposure.
In times of crisis, procurement becomes finance’s eyes and ears, offering visibility and control on spend, insight into supplier risk as well as helping make the decisions that will stand up during a recovery.
In this webinar, brought to you in partnership with leading business spend management company Coupa, we explore how strategic sourcing builds resilience through…
- Moving from a 'just-in time' to ‘just in case' supply chain
- Quickly sourcing new suppliers in new categories with confidence
- Making decisions with complex restrictions at speed
- Working with suppliers at scale
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Klaus joined IKEA back in 1992, when they were building a store near his university campus and since then, has been working on local, national, European & global level, as well as having a short stint as a business-developer (purchaser) for B2C transport & delivery services for the German retail market – at a time when the “technology platform” still primarily consisted of spreadsheets, a self-build database and a mainframe email-client - which somehow motivated him change to the technology side of the business.
The last 16 years Klaus, together with a diverse and global business team, had the responsibility for the implementation, development and business support of the global IKEA Transport sourcing (& optimisation-) solutions. The last 10 years he’s been the Solution Owner (and evangelist) for Sourcing Optimisation and Coupa’s CSO at Inter-IKEA.
Klaus is now employed at IKEA Purchasing GmbH in Dortmund, Germany (a division of the INTER-IKEA-Group), supporting global teams at IKEA Supply AG, IKEA Food AB, IKEA Communications AB and IKEA of Sweden AB.
Mike has worked in online sourcing since it first appeared in the procurement toolkit in 2000. Prior to Coupa, he helped found an online logistics sourcing startup, where he headed up Product Development, technology provision and customer support. Later, as a member of the Swedish sourcing technology pioneer Trade Extensions, he provided Solutions Consulting and Professional Services across a range of categories, before moving to Account Management. Since Coupa acquired Trade Extensions in 2017, Mike now advises the Coupa Account teams as Subject Matter Expert for Coupa Sourcing Optimisation in EMEA.
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