SAP Experience Day for Services Procurement and Procure-to-Pay Excellence

Tuesday, 8th Sept  | The Scalpel, London

       

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Turn Procurement into a Strategic Value Engine — Across Every Dollar You Spend

Procurement is no longer just an operational function. The pressure to deliver visibility, compliance, and measurable value — across P2P cycles, services engagements, and your extended workforce has never been greater.

Through expert-led sessions, real-world insights, and interactive workshops, explore how process intelligence, AI-embedded workflows, and collaborative procurement networks combine to increase spend visibility, strengthen compliance, reduce risk, and improve outcomes across your entire supply base.

Why This Matters Now

Inefficient P2P processes and limited services spend visibility are costing organisations more than they realise. Services providers account for nearly one-fifth of total workforce spend; yet one in four projects runs over time or over budget.

Leading organisations are solving both challenges together. This experience will show you how.

Key Takeaways

By attending, you will gain:

  • Proven strategies to optimise your P2P and Services Procurement — from AI-powered process performance and user adoption to spend visibility, compliance, and cash flow across your entire supply base

  • A benchmarked view of your procurement maturity — with hands-on workshops to identify hidden risks, value leakage, and opportunities for standardisation across both P2P and services spend

  • A live look at SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass with embedded AI — and the practical roadmap to implement a unified procurement architecture that delivers measurable outcomes

Whether you are optimising your P2P processes, establishing governance around Services Procurement for the first time, or looking to unify both under a single strategy, this experience will equip you with executive-level insights to drive control and value across all of your spend.

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Agenda:

Over coffee and croissants, take the opportunity to share insights and network with peers.

The procurement function is under pressure from all sides — rising services spend, fragmented P2P processes, compliance mandates, and the demand to do more with less. This opening session sets the stage: where are organisations today, what separates leaders from laggards, and why the window to act is now.

Benchmark Your Procurement Maturity

Diving deeper in to benchmarking your organisation's maturity across both Procure-to-Pay. What does "good" look like, discuss hidden risks, value leakage, compliance gaps, and opportunities for standardisation. 

What are your blindspots related to P2P in your business?

Most organisations believe they have good visibility across their procure-to-pay process, yet hidden inefficiencies often exist in areas such as maverick spend, invoice exceptions, low user adoption, supplier compliance and fragmented data. Where are your biggest blind spots, and what impact are they having on cost, control and the overall user experience?

The challenges of business adoption of P2P and what causes you the most pain?

Technology alone doesn't guarantee successful P2P adoption. Complex processes, poor user experiences, limited stakeholder engagement and inconsistent policy enforcement can all drive users away from compliant purchasing. What are the biggest barriers to adoption in your organisation, and how can procurement make compliance the easiest choice rather than an obligation?

P2P excellence isn't a single lever — it's the result of mastering several interconnected dimensions: AI capabilities, process performance, and end user adoption. In this session, we explore how your business can accelerate your P2P process, reduce the burden on operational procurement teams through AI, enhance the User Experience, whilst ensuring your KPIs are met through benchmarking against other industry peers.

Risk mitigation with services procurement, where and how do you focus?

Services procurement introduces a different set of risks to buying goods, from contractor compliance and supplier performance to data security and workforce visibility. As organisations rely more on external talent and specialist expertise, where should procurement focus its efforts to identify, manage and reduce risk while enabling the business to move at speed? 

Why do we treat services procurement like goods procurement?

Many organisations still manage services procurement using processes designed for buying physical goods. Yet services are people-based, outcome-driven and far more dynamic. Is it time to rethink our operating models, processes and technology to reflect the unique nature of services procurement?

What does success look like? Which KPIs are you tracking, why and how?

Success in services procurement extends beyond cost savings. Organisations are increasingly measuring supplier performance, speed to engage, compliance, project outcomes and business value alongside financial metrics. Which KPIs matter most, and how do you demonstrate procurement's contribution to business success?

Input Session Description

AI is transforming how asset-intensive organizations manage external services, contractors, and operational risk. Explore how asset-intensive organizations are unifying services procurement, workforce management, maintenance operations, and ERP processes. Discover how improved time and activity tracking can deliver end-to-end visibility from field operations while reducing downtime and unmanaged spend

Summary of the day's key takeaways and highlights, with an open invitation for attendees to share final reflections. Continue the conversation with speakers, peers, and partners over drinks.

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52 Lime St

London EC3M 7AF

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