- Digital roadmap: AI-powered automation - How to introduce AI in business processes? - Toolkits for a successful implementation

The potential for automating processes and communication in procurement is tremendous. Virtual assistants can help save time and resources to create more space for strategic topics. Why not simply let virtual assistants take care of supplier onboarding, guided buying or even negotiations with suppliers in the tail spend area? Digital assistants can generate time and cost savings in purchasing, both internally and externally. BOTfriends are the experts when it comes to making your procurement a digital pioneer. In the masterclass you will get an insight into what is behind the technology of virtual assistants and why they can generate added value in your company. Learn more about the use cases addressed, their application and results as well as recommendations for action in implementation.

Data is the gold of the digital age - the raw material of knowledge! This applies not only to many branches of business and science but also to logistics. In this presentation, you will learn what successful transport cost management can look like. From the preparation of an invitation to tender, including data generation, through the implementation to the follow-up phase. You will find out which conditions should be fulfilled in order to optimise processes, to sustainably reduce the cost structure, to create meaningful key logistics figures and to interpret these correctly. - Cost savings and process improvements in logistics - Implementation of a digital KPI system - Advantages for strategic purchasing

Sie planen, Ihre Prozesse im Einkauf zu digitalisieren und fragen sich, wie eine digitale Lösung anhand des End-to-End Prozesses aussehen kann? Sie möchten wissen, wie die Digitalisierung in der Gesamtbetrachtung des Purchase-to-Pay-Prozesses erfolgreich umgesetzt werden kann? Als Lösungsanbieter für digitale Prozesse im Einkauf hat die HENRICHSENs bereits zahlreiche Kunden auf dem Weg in die Digitalisierung begleitet und kennt die Herausforderungen, vor denen Unternehmen stehen, wenn diese in Richtung digitaler Einkauf gehen. In dieser Masterclass teilt die HENRICHSEN4s ihre Erfahrungen und gibt Ihnen eine Vision, wie digitale Lösungen Ihren Prozess begleiten und trotz aktueller Herausforderungen (z.B. Lieferprobleme) mit geringem Aufwand eingeführt werden können. Diese Themen erwarten Sie • Wie kann eine digitale Lösung anhand des End-to-End-Prozess im Einkauf aussehen? • Digitalisierung in den einzelnen Prozessen: Wenn aus der Bestellung eine Auftragsbestätigung und anschließend eine Wareneingangsbuchung wird • What's next - ein Blick in die digitale Einkaufs-Zukunft

Guided Buying creates a completely new - efficient and intuitive - look and feel for managing purchasing channels in companies. The most important tools for modern purchasing are a high-performance search engine for synchronous searching of all possible prices and cloud forms that help standardize complex requirements such as services and integrate them into the search. Here, the purchasing logic remains in the customer's own ERP and there will be no data replication into the cloud. Suppliers can also be connected for quotation processes and entry of services.

We show you how to integrate a vendor management system into your existing or future eProcurement platform via: • the implementation of a holistic purchasing digitalisation strategy • maximum efficient and legally compliant procurement of external resources • SAP Ariba and our punch out solution • standard interfaces (API) and 3rd party connectors • Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

How to procure and manage the increasing demand for corporate learning in your company uniformly and efficiently with an e-procurement solution. And thus save up to 80% of your process costs for the purchase of training. In view of new technologies, Germany is facing massive changes in the world of work. Digital automated processes are on the rise and job profiles are changing towards higher specialisation. According to a study by the BME, over 95% of respondents know that further training will increase in importance for the competitiveness of their company in the future. At the same time, the procurement process for training is ineffective and associated with manual effort for over 47%. In our Masterclass, speaker Eric Huxhagen shows you how: • Provide and manage the increasing demand for training in the company from any location with a provider-independent platform, • our customers were able to reduce their process costs around the procurement and management of external training by up to 80% and • you can exploit the full savings potential of the CET product group with an electronic punch-out catalogue.

"CPOs take note: autonomous and learning procurement processes don't have to remain unattainable goals!
Get answers to the following questions from Michael Quack:
- What is behind Autonomous Commerce and what is the added value for buyers and suppliers.
- How does purchasing benefit from AI, machine learning, smart matching & co. already today and in the near future?
- Why is a comprehensive solution suite the basis for autonomous and learning purchasing processes?

The Supply Chain Act requires companies to assess human rights compliance and environmental risks in their supply chain, establish a risk management system, and develop countermeasures. In this masterclass, you will learn how companies can meet the legal requirements in implementing the Supply Chain Act with the least amount of bureaucratic effort. Understand the implementation process - from audit planning to audit-proof tracking of initiated measures. Learn how you can organize this process with a digital platform in a lean and 100% audit-proof way.