Keynote: Finding the right balance – How to Master IT Procurement challenges between strategic decisions and technology development

Session

Finding the right balance – How to Master IT Procurement challenges between strategic decisions and technology development

Keynote

Montag, 30. September

08:45 - 09:15

Live in Berlin

Weniger Details

While both SAP and Volkswagen have embarked on their own cloud journeys, embracing respective technological development as the future of their businesses, purchasing different SAP solutions – S4 HANA vs. RISE – for a variety of different projects in a large company requires both flexibility as well as a proactive business enabling role of IT Procurement. The presentation highlights the main challenges of current SAP procurement at Volkswagen and demonstrates how IT Procurement can successfully support large digital transformation projects. While different business units may require different solutions, the presentation argues that in the case of large vendors a good way to be optimally prepared for additional purchases, contract renewals, etc. is to follow the vendor´s own strategy. Being able to anticipate technology trends such as further developments of specific software products, enables IT procurement to forecast and efficiently assess the need for additional services, e.g. integration partners, thus being able to avoid potential bottlenecks and reduce cost. In this sesssion you will learn

How to optimize IT procurement and adjust it to both the strategic needs and decisions by your own business as well as to the technological evolution of your vendors
How to deal with large projects and mega vendors such as SAP
How to solve the discrepancy between technological advancement and commercial aspects of ongoing or upcoming projects
How to find the right balance technology, requirements of large projects and make the right purchasing decisions
How to decide which SAP solutions – S4 HANA or RISE – is a better fit for your organization and projects
Why closely observing the changes in a vendor portfolio and even rethinking previous decisions can be crucial.

Sprecher

Christian Lojewski-Schön

Group IT Purchaser, Volkswagen AG

Christian Lojewski has been working in Group IT Purchasing at Volkswagen AG since 2018. In his current role, as Group IT Purchaser, he is responsible for global SAP Procurement. Prior to this, he worked for over 10 years in various positions in software sales, among others at Treasury Intelligence Solutions GmbH, Orga-Soft, Exact Software, and Bisnode.

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Lukas Wisweh

Buyer IT Services, Volkswagen AG

Lukas Wisweh has been with Volkswagen since 2019. In his current role, he works as Buyer for IT Services. Lukas Wisweh holds a Bachelor degree in Economics from the Hagen University.

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Unternehmen

Volkswagen AG

https://www.volkswagenag.com/en.html

The Volkswagen Group with its headquarters in Wolfsburg is one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe. The Group is made up of ten brands from seven European countries: Volkswagen, Volkswagen Nutzfahrzeuge, ŠKODA, SEAT, CUPRA, Audi, Lamborghini, Bentley, Porsche and Ducati. Our group sells vehicles in 153 countries and operates 119 production plants worldwide. Each working day, around 675,000 employees worldwide produce cars, are involved in vehicle-related services or work in the other fields of business.

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