On the 8th of December, Pascion organised its Year End Event in the Atomium in Brussels. With an amazing view over the city of Brussels, the Atomium offered the perfect conditions to look back at the different events which were organised this year and we also revealed to our guests the calendar for 2017.

We had an interview with the winner of the Procurement Excellence Award 2016, Wouter Machiels, who inspired the attendees on why every company should enter their procurement project in 2017. At the same time, Wouter announced that he accepted to join the board of Pascion and that he is eager to contribute his knowledge to the world of procurement and supply chain. Welcome on board Wouter!

We would like to thank everyone for their ‘pascion’ during all of the events this year!  Enjoy the Christmas holidays and hope to see you again in 2017!

Board of Pascion

On the 15th of November, we  welcome our members in the venue Ter Vennen in Wijnegem for our closed CPO event. The topic will be ‘Consortium Buying’. The following menu will be served to you:

16.30h Welcome coffee

17.00h Defining the benefits and challenges of Consortium Buying

* What is consortium buying?

* Which structure?

* How and when can it be successful?

* Do’s and don’ts

* Q & A

Fabian Roosen, Value Chain Transformation practice lead Belgium, PwC

17.40h CASE : The Blue Sky Story – Electricity buying consortium

A consortium of electro intensive industrial companies, active in Belgium, who teamed up to buy nuclear electricity and entered into a project to build a power plant in joint venture with Electrabel (now Engie)

• Why in consortium?
• Consortium buying/consortium investing
• Which structure, how to make it work?
• Principles of governance
• Some lessons learned

Olivier Montfort, former Managing Director, Blue Sky Amercoeur

Geert Bens, VP Procurement & Transportation, Umicore         

18.05h CASE: Aseptic liquid packaging board consortium

– one/single supplier ; could there be any benefit?

– development model and scope

– playing rules

– advantages and pitfalls

– experiences member last 5 years

Theo Wolleswinkel, Star Sourcing 360

18.30h Exchange of ideas and experiences between Pascion members

19.30h Networking – Walking dinner

Date:  15 November 2016

Venue:  Ter Vennen – Merksemsebaan 278 – 2110 Wijnegem

On Thursday the 29th of September, we celebrated the Procurement Award Event at the beautyful venue of Kasteel Diepensteyn in Steenhuffel.

We congratulate the Winners:

Wouter Machiels and Emmanuel Bernoux of AGFA, who won the Procurement Excellence Award 2016, with their project “ACE 105 – Make internal partnerships deliver”

Frederick Boey and Caroline Cawley of Telenet/Liberty Global who were elected by the audience fort he Prize of the Peers, with their project “ECO Packaging”

and Manu Matthyssens of Solvint Supply Management who was chosen as Procurement Ambassador of the Year 2016.