'Ideas in Practice' Supply Chain Summit 2024:

Collaboration, social value and sustainability in complex supply chains

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Co-hosted by Leeds University Business School and the Institute for Collaborative Working, the Supply Chain Summit 2024 will address how managing complex supply chains is increasingly vital to all organisations.

Leeds University Business School (LUBS) has been pursuing multiple strands of the collaboration discipline alongside colleagues from the Institute for Collaborative Working (ICW).

It has also been developing case studies with major programmes and alliances with businesses that are already actively engaged with the ICW.

Further, the Public Procurement Specialist Interest Group, launched by the ICW and supported by LUBS, is working closely with industry, academics and the Government Commercial Office (GCO) to curate a new playbook to be launched in early 2025.

This summit will be an opportunity to hear about progress on this activity, along with many other allied topics related to complex supply networks, and interact with those directly involved.

Key topics include:

Unlocking how we can deliver on sustainability and social value
Why circular supply chains need collaboration
The growing challenge of modern slavery and how to tackle it
Do contracts act as enablers or blockers?
Ensuring resilient supply chains and cost control are treated as priorities

Our target audience are leaders, managers and specialists in supply chain management, procurement, contracting and social value/metrics, as well as any professionals who have an interest in collaboration, sustainability, social value and their growing importance and impact.

Do you want to hear and participate in the conversation around these and other topical supply chain challenges and opportunities? Then come and share ideas and knowledge with other practitioners, academics and experts.

The ‘Ideas in Practice’ Supply Chain Summit is an annual forum for supply chain professionals and senior academic researchers to exchange knowledge about the latest thinking and developments in supply chain management, influenced by research conducted by Leeds University Business School’s Centre for Operations and Supply Chain Research since 2017.

Please note that this event is taking place in person only.

Event Programme:

09:30 - Registration and refreshments

10:00 - Welcome

Event chair: David Loseby, Visiting Professor of Research Impact at Leeds University Business School

10:05 - Keynote: Knowledge and experience

Frank Lee, Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Collaborative Working

The power of structured collaboration and social value in driving sustainability and economic benefits

10:35 - Presentation: Social impact as a contracted outcome

Dr Chee Yew Wong, Professor of Supply Chain Management at Leeds University Business School, and Brian Walton, Deputy Alliance Director, and Gareth Williams, Sustainability Director, both at TRU West Alliance

Collaborating to develop cutting-edge research impact on how supply chains and contracting teams can effectively support entire supply networks

11:10 - Refreshment break

11:30 - Panel discussion

Is the public or private sector better placed to deliver on sustainability and social value through complex supply chains?

Chair: David Loseby, Leeds University Business School

Caroline Hinchcliffe, Procurement Lead, Kier Highways

Matthew Rumble, Senior Supply Chain Collaboration Manager, National Air Traffic Services

Stefan Jastak, Supplier Development Group Leader, National Highways

12:15 - Networking lunch

13:15 - Fireside interview: Tackling modern slavery

How can affirmative action reverse the increase of modern slavery through proven approaches and techniques in procurement and supply chain?

Chair: Chee Yew Wong, Leeds University Business School

In conversation with: Mel Worthy, Government Engagement Manager, and Thomas Harrison, Partnerships Manager UK, both British Standards Institution

13:45 - Fireside interview: Contracts as enablers or blockers

Many contracts seek to transfer all risk and apply financial remedies and incentives to the principal providers of a contract from a purchasing entity. How can we change the paradigm to more collaborative forms of contract that balance risk allocation?

Chair: Dr Jie Chen, Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Management at Leeds University Business School

In conversation with: Tim Cummins, President of World Commerce and Contracting, and Clare Waller, Partner in Commercial and Corporate at Spencer West LLP

14:15 - Coffee break

14:30 - Breakout sessions

Chair: David Loseby, Leeds University Business School

Breakout 1: Cotton

Costs and resilient supply chains are top priorities to survive as an organisation; how do we keep an actionable focus on sustainability, social value and Scope 3 emissions?

Chair: Dr Manish Shukla, Associate Professor of Operations Management at Leeds University Business School

Breakout 2: Herringbone

How can collaboration across sectors ensure mutually inclusive approaches to social value within supply networks that lead to positive outcomes?

Chair: Gareth Williams, Sustainability Director, TRU West Alliance

Breakout 3: Tailors

Where should research focus to ensure we connect circularity, sustainability and social value to ensure practitioner impact?

Chair: Ken Webster, Visiting Professor at Cranfield University

15:15 - Closing remarks

Chee Yew Wong, Leeds University Business School

15:30 - Drinks reception and networking

'Ideas in Practice' Supply Chain Summit 2024:

Collaboration, social value and sustainability in complex supply chains

Key topics include:

Our target audience are leaders, managers and specialists in supply chain management, procurement, contracting and social value/metrics, as well as any professionals who have an interest in collaboration, sustainability, social value and their growing importance and impact.

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