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Round Table 7
End-to-End Value Sourcing: Redefining Direct Procurement for the Next Decade at Flender
- From cost focus to holistic value creation across the supply chain
- Data-driven decisions powered by integrated, end-to-end processes
- Procurement as a strategic enabler of resilience, sustainability and growth
Yannick Weibring, Procurement Functional Excellence, Flender GmbH
Round Table 8
Turning Data Silos into Strategic Insight. Bertelsmann’s IT Spend Cube Approach
- Garbage In, Missed Value Out: The Indirect Data Gap Holding Back Procurement Performance
- Why ERP and BI tools fall short without a strong indirect data foundation
- How structured indirect data improves governance, unlocks opportunities, and aligns procurement with finance
Sebastian Michel-Wildner, Senior Director Group IT Sourcing, Bertelsmann
Rasa Raoufi, Co-founder, Mithra Ai
Round Table 9
Untangling Complexity: How MRO Transparency Drives Operational Resilience
- Adopting a “one part, one reference” standard to to eliminate data chaos, manage obsolescence proactively, and align maintenance and procurement on one shared data foundation
- Improving cross-site spare parts transparency to support maintenance planning and reduce unplanned downtime risk
- Enabling strategic sourcing by identifying OEMs and alternative suppliers, detecting cost deviations, consolidating vendors, and sourcing confidently across internal and external networks
Dr. Lukas Biedermann, COO & Founder, SPARETECH GmbH
Round Table 10
Leverage Is Won or Lost at Component Selection - Across Cost, Supply and Speed
Most organizations treat component sourcing as a downstream activity - focused on RFQs, supplier negotiations, and cost reduction after design is complete.
This session challenges that model. It explores why the most critical decisions impacting cost, supply security, and time-to-market are made much earlier - during component selection - and why traditional sourcing approaches struggle to recover leverage once those decisions are locked in.
Varun Narayanan, Vice President, Business Transformation, Lytica Inc.
Round Table 11
From Scope 3 Data to Real Impact: Driving decarbonization across complex supply chains
- How companies overcome challenges like data quality, transparency, or supplier engagement?
- How can organizations move from reporting to real emissions reduction?
- What works in practice to activate suppliers and drive change at scale?
- How can data, AI and benchmarks accelerate better decisions?
Stephanie Herre, Sales Manager, Ecovadis. SAS
Round Table 12
ERP, Agents, Suite - What's the 2026 Target Architecture? And What About the Buyers?
- There's no single right answer to how ERP, AI agents, and procurement suites fit together - the right architecture depends on your organization's size, spend profile, and existing system landscape. In this roundtable, we'll compare approaches and trade-offs across different setups.
- Where do AI agents actually sit in your stack - and what should stay in your ERP or suite? We'll discuss real examples from enterprise rollouts and what participants are seeing in their own organizations.
- What does it take to move from pilot to production - and how do you avoid adding yet another tool that nobody uses? An open discussion on governance, integration, and building buyer adoption.
Tim Geyer, Co-Founder, Zalion GmbH
Alex Morbe, Co-Founder, Zalion GmbH
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