10.00 Opening

10.05 Volatile producer prices: is inflation returning to Euroland?
Procurement markets in 2012

Dr. Gertrud R. Traud, Senior Economist/Research Director, Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen

10.35 Staying one step ahead: what does sustainability mean for supply chain
management?

Prof. Dr. Thomas Müller-Kirschbaum, Corporate Senior Vice President, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

11.05 Networking at the trade exhibition, coffee break

11.45 Staying one step ahead in the automotive added value chain with intelligent
product and process solutions for lightweight designs

Dr.-Ing. Bernd Welzel, Spokesman for the Board of Directors, F.S. Fehrer Automotive GmbH

12.15 Civil unrest in a media democracy

Dr. Heiner Geißler, Retired Federal Minister

Plenum Moderation:

Prof. Dr. Robert Fieten, Director of BME Symposium, Director of Management Research Team

13.00 End of the 46th Symposium Purchasing and Logistics