Marcell Vollmer

Chief Procurement Officer and Senior Vice President Global Procurement Orga
SAP

Marcell Vollmer was born in 1970 and holds a PhD in politics as well as a degree in business administration. He is currently Chief Procurement Officer and Senior Vice President of the Global Procurement Organization (GPO) at SAP AG. GPO has approx. 220 people and deals with a global spend volume of more than 3.6bn EUR (Full Year 2013). In his role Marcell is also the business owner for the end-to-end Procure-to-Pay Process.

Since he has joined SAP in 2004 Marcell was driving as Global Vice President Finance global strategic programs for SAP, like the set-up, expansion and globalization of shared services, the post-merger-integration of Sybase and Business Objects (3rd largest IT acquisition at this time) as well as reorganization and cash flow optimization programs.

Before joining SAP, he worked for DHL Express as a manager of several integration projects in Finance, Controlling and HR (Payroll and Controlling during the integration of DHL, Danzas into Deutsche Post), the centralization of the customer service center organization and the integration of the European Sales force.

In addition, he has worked as a management consultant and project lead for a call center centralization project in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, a telesales center in Lower Saxony, Germany and founded a transportation company and mail-order business in Hamburg, Germany.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Marcell.

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Sustaining Value Creation to Continuously Contribute to the Top and Bottom Line

Friday, April 11th, 2014

10:30 Visionary Speech – What Will Procurement Look Like in The Future?

Attend this visionary session from Dr Vollmer to fi nd out how to take procurement to the

next level in performance and benefi t from changes taking place right now in terms of

efficiency so your procurement organisation continually evolves. Topics covered include:

» Building a strategic procurement function

» Transforming into a global procurement organization

» Innovative procurement solutions: mobile, shopping catalogs, data transparency and

business networks.

» Simplifi cation, Standardization and Automation of procurement processes for effi ciency

» How to leverage business networks for price and lead time

» Change Management and Transformation tips and advice

11:45 Stream B : CPO Leadership Programme Roundtables

Roundtable 1
Supply Chain Finance: The Promise vs. Reality
John Luu, Executive Director, JP Morgan

Roundtable 2
How to Communicate and Measure Value Creation Internally to Strengthen the Procurement Mandate
Marco Goncalves, Group Head of Procurement, Nestle

Drawing on his vast experience in procurement and as a business leader Marco will host this CPO-only discussion to find useful ways to measure value creation and effective ways to communicate value creation inside your business. Benefits include:
• You will find a new way to demonstrate value delivery that is believable and sustainable
• You will receive effective strategies to communicate value inside and outside the business to reinforce the importance of procurement to the business
• You will learn about others’ experiences creating, measuring and communicating value to benchmark against as you improve your approach

Roundtable 3
Sustaining Value Creation by Simplification and Automation
Dr Marcel Vollmer, Chief Procurement Officer, SAP

Discover new ways to create value through efficiency during this discussion led by Dr Marcell Volmer:

• Why simple is often the fastest way to generate value
• How automation can lead to greater efficiency and value for your business
• Rethinking how to approach complex challenges

17:15 Stakeholder Dialogue - Cross Functional Collaboration to Sustain Value Creation

Business partnering is the future of procurement – working collaboratively with other functions is how value is created and how value can be continuously delivered too so getting it right is business critical. But there are numerous challenges including language, culture, goals and even targets so how do global businesses achieve good business partnering to sustain value creation? Attend this exclusive panel discussion with SAP’s head of procurement and head of HR as they explain their successful approach. You will learn more about:

• How to understand other functions so you can respond to their needs better

• Ways to align language and culture to achieve a joint approach to value creation

• Tips and advice on how to achieve best practice business collaboration internally