Panellists:

Peter Fouskarinis, Head of Supply Chain, Formerly David Jones/Country Road

Sunny Misra, Director Supply Chain, APS Industrial

Robert Quirk, Director Supply Chain, Savills Australia

Bart Phaosihavong, Logistics Operations Manager, Boral

Panel Moderator:

Kyle Rodgers, Independent Director, SCLAA

Key points discussed:

• Leadership strategy for supply chain
• Post covid leadership models
• Reevaluating the business model to embed resilient, sustainable supply chains
• Stakeholder management for supply chain
• Rapid change management and opportunities
• Leadership strategy for supply chain

Panellists:

Ajith Abeynaike, Chief Financial Officer, Hallmark Cards ANZ

Christine G Miller, Regional Director – Supply Chain Advisary, Pacific, CBRE

Philip Chalkley, Director of Strategic Sourcing and Procurement, Redcross Blood

Dr Amir Hashemi, Supply Chain Director, Orora

Panel Moderator:

Kyle Rogers, Independent Director, SCLAA

The panel spoke about ” Innovating the supply Chain – Building integrated planning and optimisation models that deliver resilient results, post covid”:
Keypoints include:

• Strategic choices for cost management, supply continuity and demand forecasting
• Localisation vs China
• Using sustainability to influence the supply chain redcross blood
• Succeses in workable inventory management – boral
• Analysis of external factors for prime predictive forecasting
• Transforming for tomorrow and creating the new to deliver resilient results CBRE

The changing landscape of supplier relationships

John Meckiff, Chief Procurement Officer, Healius

John spoke about building resilience in your supply chain in the time of unprecedented demand – Lessons learned from front line response to the Covid Pandemic.

Key areas discussed include:

• Decision making in the time of uncertainty
• Using digital innovation to adapt to rapid change in regulatory environments
• Building capacity to meet customer expectations
• Adapting quickly to supplier shortages and unprecedented increase in demand

Ian Johnson, Operations Manager, Logmaster

This roundtable focussed on:

• Implementing a compliance platform to manage regulatory requirements and traceability.
• Ensuring workplace procedures are documented correctly, are accessible and are being followed correctly.
• Generating KPIs for incident rates, improvement activities and investigating outcomes.
• Reducing operating costs related to fatigue and increasing transparency of fatigue related incidents.

Mark Maiolo, Strategic Account Manager, APAC, Avetta

Anna-Louise Hammar, Strategic Account Manager, APAC, Avetta

Keypoints discussed:

• Identifying priorities and creating alignment across business stakeholders
• Leveraging technology, giving consideration to consolidation of systems and open integrations
• Exploring emerging best practice approach to executing ESG supply chain management

Wayne Taylor, Managing Director, Southern States Group

This roundtable focussed on:

• Developing a transformation roadmap that reduces your environmental impact
• Leveraging technology to upgrade warehousing and distribution processes for greater speed, safety and flexibility
• Seizing new opportunities for innovative business models

Brent Lello, Principal, Sterling Supply Chain Sales, Sustainability Software, IBM Technology Asia Pacific

Stuart Scott, Consulting, Supply Chain Transformation Service Area Lead, IBM Consulting

The discussion is based around building intelligent and resilient supply chains: Harnessing the new engines of transformation for actionable insights.

Dave Gerrand, Senior Supply Chain Manager Australia and New Zealand, Samsonite

The key points being discussed include:

• Supply Chain resilience and responsiveness
• Innovating supply chain planning
• Supplier management and network review
• Resilience of people in tough times

Panellists:

Raghav Sibal, Managing Director, Manhattan Associates

Amira Amin, National Client Solutions Manager – 3PL, MondialeVGL

Mark Hewitt, Head of Logistics, Godfreys

Ian Griffith, Head of Procurement, DuluxGroup

Panel Moderator:

Ahron Young, Founder & CEO, Ticker News

As we all adjust to this new normal, it’s obvious the impacts of the pandemic on the Logistics, transport and retail industry are here for a while.This expert panel of leaders from retail and technology will discuss what happened, what has changed, what to expect and answer the question “Where Is My Stuff”.

Anna-Louise Hammar, Strategic Account Manager, APAC, Avetta

The keys points to be covered include the importance of:

• Examining best practice approach for implementing sustainability led initiatives across the supply chain
• Understanding risk management, supplier verification and supply chain visibility as a tool for transparency across business stakeholders
• Exploring success stories and practical case studies