Michael Van Der Steen

VP GBS Strategy & Plan to Invoice Adidas

“Through sport we have the power to change lives.” - adidas

Michael has held several executive roles in the Order to Cash cycle at multinationals. In this role the focus is on delivering value and innovation to the customer. This resulted in successful programs to improve the process. This included the creation of shared services and the introduction of state of art global credit- and collection tooling. At adidas Michael is driving the introduction and implementation of an end-to-end vision in business-to-business and direct-to-consumer to deliver value to the customer.

After obtaining his MBA Michael successfully finished several trainings at INSEAD, IMD and Harvard Business School.

GPO Focus Day: Monday 16th October

11:10 AM KEYNOTE PANEL: From Standardisation to Automation: What Are the Key Considerations and Success Factors When Developing End-to-End Processes?

• Driving the alignment required to implement standardisation across different business entities

• Introducing achievable and measurable KPIs and other performance measures

• Choosing the right method and tools for process standardisation and automation

Main Conference Day 1: Tuesday 17th October

5:35 PM Panel Discussion: Practical takeaways from Implementation and Stabilisation with S4Hana

Join this panel to hear from our panellists as they detail the key challenges they faced when rolling out S4HANA, from change management to technical setbacks and everything else you need to know to better prepare for your success.

·       What is the S4Hana business case?

·       From implementation to stabilisation: what are the key steps and challenges at each phase?

·       How do we generate effective measures for data capture and standardisation

·       Effective change management throughout the project? 

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

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