ProcureCon Facilities 2024
September 23 - 24, 2024
Austin Marriott Downtown, Austin, TX
Thursday, January 23: Main Conference Day 2: The New Facility—Green, Smart and Diverse
7:15 am - 8:20 am
Registration & Breakfast
8:20 am - 8:30 am
Welcome Remarks
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Keynote Case Study: Overcoming High Density Needs And The Challenge Of Providing A Comfortable And Modern Working Environment Under A Very Tight Budget
Kathleen Barrett -
VP Procurement and P&F,
Sun Country Airlines
Leading a headquarters buildout is a challenging task under even the most perfect of circumstances. However, leading a project of this magnitude with limited resources and extremely tight timeline and budgetary constraints for hyper-operational focused industries is a challenge on a whole different level. Learn how Kathleen Barrett successfully lead two independent Low-Cost Airline headquarter buildout/relocation projects while overcoming critical operational and budgetary challenges.
9:00 am - 9:40 am
Panel: Collaborating With Facilities Management And Operations For Win-Win Projects
Pete Krillies -
Vice President, Real Estate, Facilities,
Chewy.com
Katrina Holloway -
Director, Indirect Procurement,
The Home Depot
Will Keys -
North America IoT Product Owner & Facilities Systems Quality Assurance and Operational Excellence Lead,
Sodexo
Stu Flannery -
Associate Director, Global Category Procurement – Facilities Services and Capital Projects,
Charles River Laboratories
Rakesh Kishan -
Managing Principal,
Trascent
Ron Horner -
Vice President of Procurement,
Vulcan Materials
For many organizations, it wasn't too long ago that procurement had virtually no role in facilities, real estate, utilities or construction - but things are changing. Stakeholders are now handing over the reins, realizing the importance and potential for procurement to take over and find the maximum savings in these realms - but it's not always an easy transition. In this informative panel, find out just what it takes to make a smooth transition - and what they really want from procurement.
Will Keys
North America IoT Product Owner & Facilities Systems Quality Assurance and Operational Excellence LeadSodexo
Stu Flannery
Associate Director, Global Category Procurement – Facilities Services and Capital ProjectsCharles River Laboratories
9:40 am - 10:10 am
Keynote Guest Presentation: Who Wants to Be a Millennial-aire? Nurturing Leadership in the Young Workforce
Jake Gunnoe -
Director,
Leadership Society of Arizona
When he graduated high school, Jake thought he had his whole life figured out. He had good grades, big scholarships, and a spot in the country’s top honors college. After two years and $20,000, Jake had an identity crisis—he was broke, failing engineering classes, and depressed. Six years later, Dr. Jake Alan Gunnoe is now a supply chain management consultant, researcher, and author. He also manages a global mentoring company for over 2,000 students. So, how did the know-it-all millennial burnout learn to succeed in a competitive world with minimal professional experience and training? In this presentation, Dr. Gunnoe will share his story about a college class on procurement and project management that changed his life by teaching him how to get out of his own head and accept help from mentors.
10:10 am - 10:50 am
Morning Networking Break
10:50 am - 11:30 am
Panel: Creating A Modern Category Management Strategy For Facilities
Philip Fishman -
Category Manager Real Estate and Corporate Services ,
BNY Mellon
Jeff Craig -
Senior Director Sourcing,
Honeywell
Colin Taira -
Sourcing Manager, Real Estate and Facilities,
PayPal
Ralf Wessel -
Senior Manager Global Facilities, Fleet and Security,
AGCO
Security. Janitorial Services. Landscaping, Data Centers. Having a solid category management strategy for all your facilities subcategories can drive and deliver value, growth and innovation - if it's done right. The transition from strategic sourcing to effective category management isn’t easy though, so in this panel, learn to develop a strong strategy that works for your organization and how to manage the change.
• Analyzing your categories and portfolios
• Creating a portfolio for tracking and comparing potential suppliers
• Defining key performance indicators that you’ll use to manage supplier success, and evaluating the risks in your category’s supply chain
• Implementation planning and tracking
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Presentation: Supplier Performance Oversight: Scorecarding Methods
Eileen M. Budo -
Associate Director, Global Real Estate, Facilities & Labor Purchases,
The Procter & Gamble Company (retired)
Darren Price -
Global Account Director – P&G,
Sodexo
When it comes to managing multiple suppliers and corresponding sets of varying business rules, it’s critical to have a concrete supplier evaluation plan in place to have internal and external accountability, as well as justification for continuing supplier relationships in the future. Measuring and evaluating supplier performance leads to potential reduction in costs, increased process efficiency and business performance, prevention of product issues and post-payment defects, and major improvements in the supply chain. So how can you assess your suppliers to make sure they're measuring up?
•Technologies to measure supplier performance in real time
•Crafting mutually beneficial supplier scorecards so they know exactly how they’re performing against your SOW
•Obtaining the right mix of data to benchmark
•At what point do you determine your suppliers need to be audited—is there a regular schedule or review process?
•Working with underperforming suppliers to bring them back up to expectations
Eileen M. Budo
Associate Director, Global Real Estate, Facilities & Labor PurchasesThe Procter & Gamble Company (retired)
Darren Price
Global Account Director – P&GSodexo
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Case Study: Selling Supplier Diversity to the C-Suite
Michele Thompson -
Director, Sourcing,
Refinitiv
Supplier Diversity often happens from the ground up within many organizations and the c-suite may need convincing. This session will provide attendees with different items to include in their supplier diversity business case including using client contracts to your advantage, showing the financial impact of potential lost sales, and showcasing how a strong supplier diversity program can increase D&I index ratings enhancing your company’s reputation.
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:10 pm
Panel: Harvesting Innovation From Your Supply Base
Paul Roessler -
Sr. Facilities & Construction Manager, Project Management Office,
Lam Research
Russ Mooney -
Sr. Category Manager Construction & Facilities,
Auto Nation
Marilyn Biscotti -
Senior Strategic Sourcing Consultant,
Auto Club Enterprise
Innovation doesn’t always have to mean new and cool; it could be just a new way of doing things to achieve better results. The more you bring your supplier into this process, the more successful your project outcome will be. Building more collaborative relationships with your key suppliers enables you to identify more improvement and innovation opportunities, encourage investment, and improve execution and success rates. This session will discuss how to further develop your relationships with your suppliers to extract innovation
• Overcoming traditional buyer-supplier attitudes and perceptions of limited information sharing, trust, capabilities and understanding of partner needs
• Developing a preferred relationship with your key suppliers
• How deeply and how early in the development process can you have your suppliers involved? What’s best practice, what are the constraints, how do you ensure your suppliers follow your corporate protocol?
• How do you manage your supplier engagements in practice: how do you receive supplier ideas, how are other functions engaged, how do you staff the project team? How do you liaise between the supplier and the internal departments?
2:10 pm - 2:50 pm
Workshop: Advanced Construction—Solving Tomorrow’s Challenges Today
Felipe Niles -
Senior Strategic Sourcing Team Lead,
Google
• Overcoming labor quality and scarcity challenges
• Tools being used to leverage the procurement in Construction
• End to end supply chain analysis
• Other Considerations for mature organizations
2:50 pm - 3:20 pm
Afternoon Networking Break
3:20 pm - 3:50 pm
Case Study: The Road To Success: Change Management In The Facilities World
Dan Linney -
Expert,
Indirect Procurement
When the only constant is change, how do you create an actionable change management framework for the facilities category? With so many advanced technologies and methodologies, it’s incredibly important to create an atmosphere that is open and accepting of innovation and change. This enlightening and interactive case study will delve into:
• Getting your stakeholders to follow new procurement policies and fully understand the benefit of having those policies in place
• Onboarding and seamlessly integrating new stakeholders
• Cultivating a holistic environment that is not only open, but welcoming to change and improvement
3:50 pm - 4:30 pm
Interactive Panel: Peer Pressure: Best-In-Class Benchmarking And How You Stack Up
Jeff Craig -
Senior Director Sourcing,
Honeywell
Natalie Rosenbaum Levine -
Global Supply Services - Indirect Procurement,
Colgate-Palmolive Company
Janet Kim -
Strategic Sourcing,
Twitter, Inc.
Ron Horner -
Vice President of Procurement,
Vulcan Materials
As technological advancements push forward the evolution of Facilities Management like never before, where do you fall on the spectrum? What are your peers doing to adapt and succeed? The journey to creating a best-in-class Facilities Management procurement program requires understanding where you are compared to others in the market so that you can learn, grow and put forth an efficient process for improvement at your firm. Chat with your peers and ask questions on what’s working (and not working) - and then brainstorm how to make it happen at your organization.
Natalie Rosenbaum Levine
Global Supply Services - Indirect ProcurementColgate-Palmolive Company
Janet Kim
Strategic SourcingTwitter, Inc.