Best practices in reviewing by Carmela Di Mauro and Steven Carnovale (Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management)

13:30 – 13:40 Welcoming Remarks | George A. Zsidisin

13:40 – 14:00 JPSM Special Issue on Purchasing and Supply Management Education | George A. Zsidisin, Stephen Kelly, Marika Tuomela-Pyykkönen, Matias Enz, Temidayo Akenroye

Education is a core tenant of IPSERA and academia. However, there are limited resources available describing current techniques and issues in PSM education that can provide guidance for improving education and educational outcomes. The purpose of this session is to introduce, provide details, and answer questions about the Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management special issue on PSM education. It is hoped that this special issue will stimulate the development of teaching in PSM and provide a platform for future collaborative endeavours within the PSM and overall supply chain management scholarly community.

14:00 – 15:00 Cardinal Cereals Case Presentation | George A. Zsidisin

Most companies are exposed to commodity price volatility in their supply chains. The purpose of this session is to introduce a flexible case they can use for teaching students how to assess commodity price volatility and select an appropriate strategy or strategies for mitigating this form of risk in the supply chain.  

15:00 – 15:30 Break

15:30 – 16:00 Professionalising the public procurement workforce – Case public procurement mentoring in Finland | Marika Tuomela-Pyykkönen

In 2020, Finland launched its first national public procurement strategy, with a vision that Finland will be a European leader in public procurement sector. The implementation of this strategy is done via eight theme groups (strategic leadership, competence, knowledge management and impact, well-functioning procurement, innovations, economic sustainability, social sustainability, and ecological sustainability) involving hundreds of public procurement stakeholders. As part of the procurement competence theme group’s work, a public procurement mentoring program was designed and implemented in 2022-2023. The purpose of this session is to illustrate how mentoring can be used as a tool for professionalizing the procurement capabilities in a purchasing and supply organisation.

16:00 – 17:00 How you benefit from other's best practices in higher education | Klaas Stek, Katia Picaud-Bello, Elina Karttunen

The projects PERSIST and PERISCOPE outputs are now freely available to PSM educators. These educational materials for PSM in the digital age (PERSIST) and innovation sourcing sustainably (PERISCOPE) will be demonstrated, including training the trainer material. However, there are many more outstanding examples of best practices in PSM education. The workshop topic is how we can create a PSM education knowledge networking. How can we benefit from each other's best practices in higher education?

Registration will be available throughout the day.

Opening session of the main conference:

• Welcome from the IPSERA President
• EADA Dean address 
• Logistics and program overview

Increasing market volatility, supply shortages, worsening geopolitical contexts and growing stakeholders’ pressure to delivery on sustainability objectives are putting additional strain on procurement. A recent Kearney survey highlighted these as top strategic priorities for CPOs. Sourcing strategies are evolving to factor in more complex scenarios and stronger internal and external partnerships. Visibility and market insights are becoming non-negotiable inputs to the decision-making. The procurement profile is evolving. New capabilities are needed, from leaner processes to fit-for-purpose technologies, to new people competencies. This workshop will explore these changes with the goal to identify both academic research paths and practitioner implications.

Public procurement is in a crucial role in solving many large and complex problems of societies. It can also create functioning markets for innovative solutions. This PDW on public procurement is organized to share experiences on ongoing projects and initiatives in the field as well as bring scholars in the field together to facilitate future collaborations. Participants will be involved in discussion on future research initiatives to advance the research field. More specifically, the discussions will cover common challenges and successful practices of initiating and conducting research in this area.

Fashion, as a system, leads to severe ecological, social, physical and psychological consequences for both people and planet. The fashion industry produces more than 100 billion items a year with the majority of those ending up at landfill. Overproduction is one of key systemic issues, but the solutions promoted by the industry not only fail to bring the systemic change needed but perpetuate existing environmental and social problems by shifting where fashion’s overproduction driven clothing waste ends up, mostly in the global South. Exploring how to enable the systemic change in a context characterised by overproduction, the purpose of this PDW is to explore production emissions, waste colonialism and policy making in the context of fashion. The first part of this workshop is dedicated to an expert panel to unpack the constructs while the second part aiming to build an inclusive workshop with all participants to develop a research agenda, and collaborative ideas on the way forward.

Boost student participation and engagement in a risk-free environment! We will be discussing the critical role of supply chain management in driving a more sustainable future. One of the challenges in higher education is how build a course program around the topic. 

• Learn how to develop a successful course and how he integrate game-based learning solutions into the program. 
• Experience yourself how students are challenged to create a sustainable cocoa value chain from sourcing cocoa beans at the farmers in Africa to delivering chocolate drinks to end users. Experience de SDG’s, ESG, and take a deep dive into Planet, People and Prosperity.

The nascent concept of regenerative supply chains is currently linked to the overarching theme of the circular economy. Yet, the regenerative paradigm can be understood in a much broader terms, entering into a co-creative partnership with nature from an holistic living system perspective. We propose a workshop to discuss the development of research and practice in this area, focusing on supply chains that provide a positive benefit to the planet and society, as opposed to the traditional extractive and exploitative nature supply chain activity. This workshop will be based on short academic presentations, research idea pitches, and guest speaker/s from industry. We aim to provide an initial research agenda and start a sub-community of interested researchers, so it is open to any IPSERA 2023 participants who are working in this area, or simply want to know more about the topic.

This PDW aims to explore the world of platform thinking as a mindset to foster innovation (also) in the purchasing and supply chain fields. The session will be based on the following structure:

• Brief introduction of the platform thinking framework
• Collaborative workshop to assess opportunities and challenges in bringing platforms in the purchasing and supply chain fields, both from research and practitioner perspectives
• Wrap up and closing

The session's goal is to foster a critical discuss on the topic while generating ideas for possible future research.

Panelists: Carmela Di Mauro, PhD (JPSM), Federico Caniato, PhD (IJOPM), Andrea Patrucco, PhD (IJPDLM), Finn Wynstra, PhD (JOM), Wendy Tate, PhD (JSCM)

This session will be a moderated discussion between the editors of the top P/O/SCM journals. Topics will cover: what constitutes a sound manuscript? What are the fatal flaws to avoid? What does it take to get published? What do you, as journal editors, want to see more of?

This workshop is part of a Delphi study with experts on why firms are failing to advance on scope 3 (supply chain) emissions tracking, reporting, and mitigation. In previous stages, the research team has conducted interviews and focus groups with Supply chain managers, leading to the identification of six core paradoxes faced by firms. In this workshop, we will conduct a focus group with Academics to reflect on these challenges taking a theory development perspective from a supply chain transparency standpoint.