191. Taking procurement and supply chain collaboration to the next level

Guest Name: Stephane Morel, The Global Process Owner Strategic Procurement at NOVARTI, Language: English, Publication date: Feb, 04. 2022

Stephane Morel, Procurement & Business Leader. He is currently the GPO - Global process owner strategic procurement, reporting to the Global Procurement Business Lead and part of the Novartis Lean Digital Core (LDC) program. Prior to this role, he spent more than 15+ years in various role at Novartis, such as: Global procurement strategy & transformation manager, Head of procurement capability & change management, Procurement transformation lead (Europe) and Head of procurement - CPO (Spain).

In addition, he is also passionate about personal development, having spent over a decade as a trainer, mentor, blogger, book author, and speaker. One of his missions is to assist procurement & salespeople in developing their skills. Since 2009, Stephane is a regular trainer at IQS, EADA, STARTIFY, CEU, Adolfo Ibañez University (Chile) on Procurement & Business Partnering for Procurement & Sales professionals. In 2014, He published the book "la transformación de compras: una aventura retadora" (spanish language) explaining the 6 workstreams to manage in order to upgrade the Procurement function.

A highlights questions:

• How would you describe the current procurement situation in 2023 ?
• You were just explaining to an evolution, VUCA as well as increased collaboration when we see tougher competition everywhere, can you explain a bit more on that point ?
• How do see the collaboration between procurement and supply chain? As a concept, it looks great. But how do see that ?
• Coud also mentioned about a 3D performance management framework at the beginning, could you explain us a bit more there ?

Connect with Stephane on Linkedin here.