We proudly present the second key-note speaker for our conference: Esther Kersten from Vanderlande!

Presentation Vanderlande

Vanderlande is the global market leader in baggage handling systems for airports, and sorting systems for parcel and postal services. The company is also a leading supplier of warehouse automation solutions.

Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems move 3.2 billion pieces of luggage around the world per year, in other words, 8.8 million per day. More than 20 million parcels (300 packages per second) are sorted by its systems every day. Vanderlande’s extensive portfolio of integrated solutions – innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services – results in the realisation of fast, reliable and efficient automation technology.

The sustainability program of Vanderlande has always been result-driven and ambitious. From energy and life cycle services to ergonomics and sustainable materials: pilot projects have turned into the company’s product standards. With our innovation strategy modelled around the concept of circular economy (known as ‘Cradle to Cradle®), they have embarked on a road of intense supply chain collaboration. It touches all disciplines and departments. Numerous questions and challenges are still arising on the horizon. How can (young) professionals make the difference in the transition to the circular economy?

Esther Kersten is sustainable development manager at Vanderlande and believes she has the best job in the world. Her ambition is to prove that sustainability makes good business sense and goes hand in hand with innovation. She loves to initiate sustainable projects by involving and inspiring people from all levels and disciplines. Her goal is to create networks to make a change. Developing joint sustainability & innovation roadmaps with customers and suppliers is one of her key activities. An intrapreneur pur sang.

Her sustainability roots date back to 2006, when she started at DSM within the sourcing department. Afterwards she worked for various companies and organisations in the field of sustainable development. She learned that businesses have the power to deliver tremendous progress, and a unique ability to make this world a better place. She is mother of Mike (2013) and Kate (2015) and loves to travel the world.

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We proudly present our first workshop at the upcoming YPP conference of Floow2 and Rijnstate.

More with less: how a sharing economy offers opportunities for organizations

Expensive equipment that is not being used, rooms are empty and knowledge is not always maximized. The solution? Share! Where consumers are increasingly sharing their homes, cars and food, the sharing economy also creates opportunities for organizations. What’s not being used, costs money. Rijnstate Hospital, leader in this field, therefore offers its (temporarily unused) capacity for rent or for sale to other organizations on a sharing marketplace. The Albert Schweitzer Hospital took another approach and has started using its own internal capacity in a more optimal way by setting up its own private marketplace which links the various departments and branches within the company. Do you want to learn more about the context and what the experiences, opportunities, obstacles and best practices are in order for you to start this within your own organisation? This and more is covered in one of the workshop during our YPP conference on the 28^th of October at the headquarters of ABN AMRO in Amsterdam.

The workshop “More with less: how a sharing economy offers opportunities for organizations” will be hosted by Lieke van Kerkhoven of Floow2 and Royan van Velse of Rijnstate Hospital.

Lieke van Kerkhoven

Lieke has a background in healthcare. After studying medicine she fulfilled several managerial and organizational positions in healthcare organizations in The Netherlands and abroad. She experienced first-hand how much organizations can benefit from sharing their assets amongst each other, in the first place financially, but certainly also socially and environmentally. From her passion to contribute to a healthier healthcare, she initiated FLOOW2 Healthcare about 3 years ago. This is the first sharing marketplace for healthcare organizations to rent out or sell their equipment, services, facilities, knowledge and skills.

Royan van Velse

Royan van Velse is procurement manager at Rijnstate hospital in Arnhem. Furthermore, he is chairman of the board of NEVI Healthcare. He has been working in conflict areas for the International Red Cross before holding his first post as procurement manager for the United Nations, based in Angola. Since then, he has been working in procurement manager jobs in France and the Netherlands. He is author of several books. One of them is about procurement and is called “Sportief inkopen”.

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We proudly present the first key-note speaker to our upcoming annual conference: Professor Dr. Jacqueline Cramer. With many years of experience within various roles related to sustainability she is the perfect start of the day to provide the foundation for the current level of sustainability within the Netherlands, within Dutch and international companies, and what it means for procurement. In addition, she will provide us with a glance of what the future innovations within sustainability might look like and what we can learn from that in our daily lives, both work related and in our personal lives.

Prof. dr. Jacqueline Cramer is professor in sustainable innovation at Utrecht University, strategic advisor of the Utrecht Sustainability Institute and member of the Amsterdam Economic Board, particularly in charge of the circular economy. Moreover, she is director of the consultancy firm ‘Sustainable Entrepreneurship; strategy and innovation consulting’.

Before she was Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment for the Labour Party (February 2007 – February 2010). Her background is primarily related to industry, working as a consultant for many years with more than 150 companies on the implementation of sustainable entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility.

Sustainability?! – Your People, Planet, Profit

To sustain or not to sustain, that’s the question. It won’t be long before the world’s population reaches nine billion people. In addition ecological and environmental awareness keeps on growing. Countries worldwide have determined several goals to strive towards a more environmentally sustainable way of living.

Do organizations share this environmental friendly mindset and are they aware of their impact on our environment? Is sustainability a hype or an everlasting and significant subject? What does sustainability mean exactly and what is the impact on corporate structures?

In our case the question of importance is which impact sustainability has on the procurement strategy. Does procurement face new challenges that make our work more complex than ever, or does sustainability create opportunities focusing on more than savings?

This year’s YPP Conference focuses on these matters to give you the specifics about sustainability and procurement.

Please find more information on our event page, where you can also register for the event.

We are looking forward to welcome you at our conference!

In three weeks from now, we will organize an exciting YPP event at Océ Headquarters in Venlo.

Through innovations like 3D printing resulting in various renewing products, Océ constantly strives to be and remain world class. What innovative products has Océ developed? What is Procurement’s contribution to Océ’s innovation, and how does it manage supplier relations in order to stimulate innovation? And, of course, what can you learn from this and apply in your own daily practice? Join us and find out!

Check out the programme outline under events. You can register for free.

We look forward to seeing you there!