Branch Manager at Tieffe Group Srl , Italy

Session: Human Freight management in the digital era.

An overview to reduce bottleneck situations in freight forwarding and logistics thanks to a stronger connection between parties involved in the logistics process.

Learning outcomes:

• What are the real added value of a freight forwarder in supply chain beyond pricing.
• What is the role of a digital freight forwarder in the supply chain.
• What are the logistics bottleneck which still require the human touch in the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Director at Arabian Steel Industries , Egypt

A Mechanical Production Engineer, Graduated from Faculty of engineering, HELWAN University 2005.
Overall grade is Good, Excellent grade in the graduation Project.
With strong supply chain, experience & knowledge as obtained Certified International Supply Chain
Manager (CISCM) from TASK and certified Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) from
American University in Cairo, very good Project Management knowledge as obtained
PMP preparation Certified in Jeddah. Extensive experience of managing Supply Chain as a Supply
Chain Director in Arabian Steel Industries, Extensive experience of managing inventory as a Group
Warehouse & Planning Manager in ALGIHAZ for trading and consulting Company and I was a
Warehouse & Spare Parts Procurement Manager in HELWAN Cement Plant (ITALCEMENTI Group).
Extensive experience of managing Planning as a planning & Preparation Head in FLS Egypt (NCC
plant).
Extensive experience of creating Budgets (Maintenance & Spare parts).
Excellent knowledge of modern tools like SAP WH Module, SAP MDM Module, SAP & MAXIMO PM
Module and self-customized SAP reports to optimize the highest level of inventory management in
order to reduce CAPEX / OPEX cost.
11 years of experience in Cement Industries. In addition, 1 Year of experience in S/S Projects.
(Planning, Preparation & Maintenance, Production, Preventive Maintenance, Procurement &
Warehousing).
3 years in Steel Industries

Session: Demand Vs Warehouse Performance.

Managing Impact of Demand Fluctuations on Warehouse Performance.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand the Demand Management.
• Understand the warehouse Management.
• The aim of any organization.

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Executive Director of METRICA, Bulgaria

Milena Ramcheva has been working in the field of direct marketing for more than 13 years. He began his career at the world-famous publishing house Readers Digest, a direct marketing consultant for the Russian company Bluefox for the Asian market and worked in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Executive Director of Metrica Ltd. since November 2016, where the value of the company is to provide high level customer service, offering value added services to its customers.

She graduated in Accounting and Control and Marketing at the Academy of Economics “D.A. Tsenov”, Svishtov. She also has a master’s degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski ”.

Session: Fulfillment services – hidden part of eCommerce success

The goal of the online business is to get as many completed shopping carts as possible. Once orders are completed, they must be processed, deliveries coordinated and arrive on time with customers in good commercial condition. This is not an easy process that remains hidden from customers, but extremely important for merchants. The supply chain is just as important and essential part of online store management as choosing the right online platform, choosing the right products, and digital marketing. Therefore, it is important to find the right order management formula after the shopping cart is completed and how to serve customers.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand the whole business process of eCommerce
• Find the hidden side of eCommerce
• Find the advantage of fulfillment services
• Learn how to calculate the fulfillment costs

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Director of PwC, Belgium

In the year 2000, after 6 years of industry experience, Koen Cobbaert stepped into Supply Chain Consulting. He joined a fast growing boutique consulting company that was acquired by PwC in 2011. Since then he has acted as a director and now he is leading the supply chain planning competency group within PwC Belgium. His competence area is the use of analytical techniques in planning and that is how he got in touch with LightsOutPlanning (LOP), a platform that focuses a.o. on resilient planning. He is bringing this presentation together with Valérie Vandenbroucke, vice president LOP. Valérie has been in the lead of product development since the very conception of the LOP platform.

Session: Making better decisions by dealing with uncertainties in S&OP

Supply chain planning in general, and S&OP in particular, happens under a lot of uncertainty, both on the demand and the supply side. What we often see is that this uncertainty is denied/overlooked in making plans, leading to a plan that is not fit for purpose. We will present an approach that incorporates uncertainty in the decision making process, leading to more robust plans that guarantee your expected service levels.

Learning outcomes:

• …understand how uncertainties influence the quality of their plans
• …understand how smart algorithms can give insight in the consequences of these uncertainties
• …and how they can mitigate these uncertainties

Additional information and International Conference on Supply Chain Management & Fulfillment Solutions programme – here

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Category Manager at IBM, Canada

Dhananjay (Jay) Chauhan is #CognitiveProcurement champion! He has a decade of leadership experience in Strategy & Operations with particular emphasis on procurement, manufacturing & project management across energy, industrial equipment & IT industry at F500 companies.

Currently at IBM Procurement Consulting & Services, he works with global clientele to address priority CPO issues related to:

– Competitive Agility (profitability interventions across COGS and SG&A expense lines)

– Operating Model (shaping dept strategies, transformation road-maps, uplift people and processes) &

– Digital Strategy (reinventing operations with design thinking & future-proof capabilities through advanced technologies such as RPA, AI & Blockchain)

His expertise lies in value identification on indirect spend (IT, Capex, Industrial Mfg & Facilities) and executing strategic cost reduction initiatives across supply and demand/consumption levers on global scale with speed and agility.

Specialties: Procurement Strategy | 3rd Party Cost Takeout | Digital Transformation | Project Management | Category Management | Negotiations | Source to Pay (S2P)

Session: Cognitive Procurement in post-Covid era

Post Covid world will re-emphasize focus on procurement’s digitalization and to meet this challenge, companies should craft a strategy that develops digital and cognitive capabilities, employees social and emotional skills, and their adaptability and resilience.

Learning outcomes:

• Procurement Transformation
• Category Management
• Digital Strategy
• Automation

Additional information and International Conference on Supply Chain Management & Fulfillment Solutions programme – here

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Head of Strategic Sector Development at Startup Nation Central, Israel

Yariv Lotan is responsible for supporting the development of strategic sectors, Industry 4.0, AgriFood and Digital health, into a leading global hub of innovation. Over the past two years, he has played a pivotal role in building the international ecosystem supporting Israeli Industry 4.0 startups, engineering bridges-of-innovation with multinational corporations, investors, international consulting firms, associations, consulting firms, governments, and academia. He has developed and runs the Industry 4.0 Global Challenge Survey, and leads the strategy to accelerate the innovation acceleration of Industry 4.0 for German Mittelstand companies.

Salutary word: “I am looking forward to being a speaker at the Smart Industry Forum this year. It would be a great opportunity to discuss the challenges of manufacturers and the innovative Israeli Industry 4.0 solutions to support their digital transformation.

Session: Innovative solutions for Logistics in the context of Industry 4.0

Logistics 4.0

The session will deal with innovative solutions for logistics in the context of the 4th industrial revolution.

It will focus on the areas of innovation for transformation and logistics. Discuss the Logistics maturity road map. Explore examples of solutions accessible for the industry. The Industry 4.0 innovation sector in Israel, how to find relevant innovative solutions on the startup nation finder (an open innovation discovery platform).

Learning outcomes:

• Understanding the Israel Innovation ecosystem.
• Using the Finder Innovation Discovery Platform.
• Map logistics 4.0 solutions.

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Assistant Professor at BGMEA University of Fashion & Technology (BUFT), Bangladesh

Mr. Faisal Bin Alam is an Assistant Professor of Textile Engineering & Management department of BGMEA University of Fashion & Technology (BUFT) in Bangladesh. With years of professional experience, he has been involved in sustainable fashion education for the last 10 years. Currently he is doing his PhD at University of Twente in the Netherlands and concentration of his PhD research is the Sustainable Market Transformation of the apparel sector. He is also the Founder CEO of Centre for Sustainable Solutions. He is a certified CSR and Sustainability expert of the sector and involved in a number of national and international research projects on sustainability.

Session: Transformation towards a Sustainable Clothing Industry

Looking for a Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain: Dream or Reality?

How to ensure sustainability in the long supply chain of apparel production (from raw material to disposal)?

Learning outcomes:

• Learn about the sustainability concerns in apparel production.
• Learn about key challenges faced in different steps.
• Learn about green industry concept.
• Learn about how to convert into a greener supply chain.

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Senior Manager at EY, India

Shrey is a Senior Manager with EY, based in India and leads the global delivery teams in India and Poland. Shrey has 15+ years of supply chain experience spanning across Planning, Fulfilment, Manufacturing operations and Logistics. Shrey has delivered and managed multiple process improvement engagements by addressing aspects around process reengineering, analytics and enterprise implementations across industries like Consumer Goods, Automotive, Chemical, Metals & Mining and Government. Key areas of expertise are: Demand Planning, Inventory assessments, Strategic Sourcing, Process Mining, Manufacturing Operations (Stamping, Plastics, Electricals), Transportation Planning and Network Design.

Session: Impact of COVID19 on supply chain management and strategies to mitigate the risks

Recovery and beyond: shift in outlook in the wake of COVID-19

As the world reels under the pandemic, businesses need to relook at their supply chain operating models. This session aims to provide insights on key supply chain focus areas to adapt to the new normal.

1. Supply and demand planning to be more responsive to market volatilities

2. Manage order fulfilments with challenges in logistics due to lockdown

3. Supply chain resilience

4. Real time visibility with end-to-end control tower implementation

5. Cost optimization across plan-source-make-deliver

Learning outcomes:

• Get a birds-eye view of impact of COVID19 on supply chain processes (plan-source-make-deliver)
• Gather insights on supply chain resilience and mitigating risks arising out of such major crisis
• Understand the importance and scope of digitization in supply chain management
• Get a blueprint for designing supply chain processes in the new normal

Additional information and International Conference on Supply Chain Management & Fulfillment Solutions programme – here

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Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting, India

Ranga Davala has over 28 years of working experience in Supply chin management domain. In his career, got involved in Consulting and sales activities in Supply Chain Management areas for various industry verticals such as Food and Beverage, Consumer, Manufacturing and Technology, Media and Telecommunication industries

Ranga Davala has 21 years of Enterprise IT consulting transformation projects experience across globe and having strong SAP Implementation experience in Supply chain management processes of Production Planning, Integrated Business Planning, Materials Management, Enterprise asset management and strong Integration with Customer service and Finance processes.

Ranga Davala is having 7.5 years of Copper Mining and Refinery experiences, and got involved in process improvements in Shop Floor, Materials Management and Transportation Management area.

Ranga published articles in SCM and Data Management areas in various journals and speaker at various SCM conferences and Business schools. Ranga is a SCOR-P certified professional, Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP).

Session: Mitigate of Supply Chain Disruptions by connecting dots using various tools and Technologies

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