The impact and opportunities of Circular Economy

Workshop ABN AMRO

Do you want to learn more about Circular Economy and get inspired for Procurement that integrates Circular Economy Principles? Then join this workshop! During the workshop you will experience the opportunities and challenges of Circular Economy and Procurement. Through questions, cases and interactions we share views and thoughts on this matter. We also tour you around the ABN AMRO building to show you examples of circularity and our Paviljoen (ABN AMRO Pavillion), which will be built with circular materials and building methods.

ABN AMRO has started a journey to gain experience and to develop more expertise on the circular economy. The essence of integrating circular economy with procurement is that the buyer gathers knowledge about the value chain of the producer. The producer focuses on closing material loops… There are several business models for circular economy. For example, procurement can focus on the desired performance (e.g. light) instead of buying a product (e.g. the lamp itself). You might own a mobile phone while you only want to use the service of calling and texting… Join this workshop and get inspired and shaken up!

The people providing the workshop

Frits Lampe

Frits Lampe started his career in 1984 at the internal department of a warehouse. He discovered his love and passion for technique and started studying alongside his work.
He has a higher education degree in Energy Technology, and his first job in 1991 at the bank was as an electrical technician in ABN AMRO’s Maintenance & Service department. He started working as a Procurement Consultant in 2007, and since then his focus has shifted more and more to procurement using the principles of the circular economy.
Over the years he has seen that it’s important to explore various opportunities to reach new goals. As Einstein said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results.”

Jan Raes

Twenty years ago, he started his career with technology companies. After 10 years in IT, he started focusing on the financial services industry. His career path has brought him from data management to finance and through compliance and risk to sustainable banking and strategy. Now active as a senior business advisor implementing the corporate strategy on sustainability and transparency for a Dutch international bank with a balance sheet of 400 billion Euro.

His goals and ambitions are driven by change with a positive impact. Tenacity, people skills and creativity have brought him a long way, especially when it comes to institutionalizing change in our industry. It is in his nature to stimulate networking, exchange of ideas and connection between stakeholders. Besides his job, he enjoys book publishing and coaching of Social Enterprises.

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Leading IT consultancy firm Quint Wellington Redwood joined forces with Achmea and will provide one of the workshops during this years YPP conference on October 28 at ABN AMRO in Amsterdam!

Purpose driven sourcing
Organizations try to automate or even robotize all the work they can, even if it is core to their business. The remaining non-core work is often outsourced. All the other work is left behind for the remaining employees, putting them at the lowest picking order. In the last few decades, this has put a lot of people in uncertainty about their lives. No wonder in the world only 17 percent of the workforce is truly engaged at work, while companies with engaged people outperform other companies tenfold.
What would happen if we would turn around the picking order, and automate and outsource only that work that people don’t find purposeful or are not passionate about?
During this break out session, we want to explore this radically new approach to sourcing with you. The ultimate goal is to find a sourcing approach that has a positive impact on people and profit.

The people providing the workshop

Lesley Kaziow

Lesley Kaziow is an enthusiastic, entrepreneurial and commercial professional with a strong educational background who has a great interest in strategic communication, purchasing, negotiating and IT. She started her purchase career in 2010 at the Radboud University in Nijmegen where her main focus was on software. At the University she studied Communication Science. In 2014 she decided to focus more on IT, so she started as an IT buyer at Achmea. In 2016 she was named Young Sourcing Professional 2016. IT is the future of our world so she is very glad to be a part of it.

Menzo Meijer

Menzo Meijer holds a degree as Master of Science in Business Administration (University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 1986). He is a Principal Consultant at Quint Wellington Redwood with more than 24 years of experience in the fields of IT Sourcing, IT governance and IT Service management, being responsible for a large number of assignments as a consultant, teacher, coach and mediator. As thought leader on sourcing strategies Menzo simplifies complex issues, connects viewpoints, and has an eye for unexpected solutions.

Arshad Shamsi

Arshad Shamsi is an autodidact with over 15 years of experience in Sourcing advisory. At Quint Wellington Redwood he is responsible for increasing the impact on people and planet of the internal operation and the propositions.
For years he has helped clients outsource in the traditional way in which the interest of the people was hardly taken into account. Now he is on a mission to change this through what he calls purpose driven sourcing. Because he believes every human wants to and deserves to do meaningful work.

Find out more about the YPP conference here!

Nomineer jouw inkooptalenten voor de NEVI Young Talent Award

Wie wordt het nieuwe Young Talent in inkoop en supply management?

Iedere organisatie heeft ze. Jonge talenten die een grote bijdrage hebben in het succes van de organisatie. Ken jij  collega’s (<32 jaar) die inkoop op de kaart zetten en wil jij ze belonen voor hun bijdrage? En hun ontwikkeling verder stimuleren? Nomineer ze dan voor de NEVI Young Talent Award 2016. Een unieke en leerzame ervaring voor talenten werkzaam in inkoop en supply management.

Nomineer voor 23 september 2016 jouw Young Talent(s) voor de NEVI Young Talent Award 2016-2017 (nomineren kan via http://www.nevi.nl/youngtalentaward) De winnaar wordt bekendgemaakt op 21 november tijdens het pre-diner voorafgaand aan het International Supply Management Congress in het WTC in Rotterdam.

Are you the next Young Sourcing Professional 2017?

Quint Wellington Red wood challenges you or members of your team to participate in the Young Sourcing Professional Program 2017.

This is a unique opportunity if you are under 35 years old and work in the sourcing industry. Subscribe free of charge for the 4^th edition of the Young Sourcing Professional program. It offers you an opportunity to enhance your knowledge and skills, build your network and win the title Young Sourcing Professional 2017 in combination with a professional (business) coach for one year. The Young Sourcing Professional program offers you a stage, inspiration, passion and state of the art insights.

Schedule & Registration

The Young Sourcing Professional program includes three meetings over a period of six months, starting Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 10:00 am during the Quint / White Lane Sourcing Event at the Crowne Plaza Amsterdam Schiphol. During the 1st meeting we’ll give you your assignment; developing a vision of the impact of Agility and DevOps in Sourcing. This assignment allows you to work individually, together or, if desired, with coaches from Quint. The program will end with a “titanic struggle” during the Sourcing Congress for Executives of Quint in April 2017. Here, the Young Sourcing Professional 2017 will be chosen by the audience and a jury.

Young Sourcing Professionals previous editions

Odile de Vito (KPN) “As a young professional, I am always looking for people who can help me grow in my profession. A day like today gives me the opportunity of 250 veteran colleagues to get feedback and to tap into a network that will give me many benefits for the rest of my career. ”

Lesley Kaziow (Achmea) “I see IT sourcing make a move toward the cloud. This will make contracting IT processes increasingly challenging and complex. The Young Sourcing Professional Program gives me inspiration and the opportunity to learn from colleagues.”

Practical information

Sourcing Professionals (<35 years) are welcome to register. We welcome you August 31 at 10:00 am at the Crowne Plaza Amsterdam.

For more information, please contact:

Peter-Paul Verhoef

p.verhoef@quintgroup.com

06-4683 6653

http://www.quintgroup.com/nl/home

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!