Kenneth Chan

Chief Procurement Officer
Asplundh Tree Expert

Ken Chan is the Chief Procurement Officer of Asplundh Tree Expert Co., U.S.'s largest firm in utility clearance. With 86 years of history and operations across US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, Asplundh is a $3.5B+ private company with 35,000+ employees providing vegetation and construction services to the utility industry and municipal government.

Ken is a seasoned executive with 20 years of global consulting and industry experience. He has a proven track record of leading teams to deliver bottom-line savings and operational excellence to multibillions-dollar companies. Prior to Asplundh, Ken worked for Deloitte Consulting and PWC’s PRTM Management Consulting. His previous clients included Fortune 500 and private equites such as GE, Boeing, GM, Chrysler, Caterpillar, Motorola, Onex, TPG, Carlyle etc. As a hands-on leader with superior change management ability, excellent problem solving aptitude, and strong collaboration skills, Ken has led many successful projects such as strategic sourcing, procurement transformation, value engineering, and lean manufacturing. He has a deep understanding of conducting international business from living and working in US, Asia, and Europe. He speaks and writes fluent English and Chinese.

Ken recently spoke at ISM (Institute for Supply Management) 98th annual conference and Consero Procurement and Strategic Sourcing Forum. He was interviewed and featured by Supply Chain World magazine. He is also a member of the ISM Report On Business® Survey Committee. He holds an MBA from University of Michigan Ann Arbor with highest distinction. In addition, he earned an Electrical Engineering degree with honors from the University of Hong Kong and a Management degree with honors from the University of London.

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Day 1: Monday, September 28, 2015

Sunday, April 9th, 2017

09:35 Elevating Procurement Maturity

If you’re in the middle of your procurement transformation process, but are getting stuck or hitting roadblocks, what can you do to move your maturity level to be in line with your competitors or companies of similar size?
• What does a robust indirect procurement program actually look like?
• Is procurement reporting to the right department? Where should it report?
• Determine your bandwidth and capabilities based on your available resources
• Developing measurement and metrics for success
• Are you managing the right categories and implementing the right processes?
• Renegotiating supplier agreements
• Examples of procurement evolution
• Do you need to add or retrain staff?
• Strategies for gaining additional visibility

Day 3: Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Friday, June 9th, 2017

10:35 Panel: Driving Innovation Through Collaborative Supplier Relationships

Building more collaborative relationships with your key suppliers enables you to identify more improvement and innovation opportunities, encourage investment, and improve execution and success rates. As procurement teams have to do more with less internal resources, they must depend more on their suppliers. This panel will focus on how to extract innovation from your supply base through exclusive commercial and gain-sharing relationships, and what you can do as a customer to keep them wanting your business.

How to develop a preferred relationship with key suppliers
How deeply and how early in the development process can you have your suppliers involved?
Managing supplier engagements in practice
Offloading and automating tactical processes to suppliers
Monitoring, measuring and managing supplier performance – what does success look like?