19th November – Achieving Supply Chain Excellence

• Evaluating ways to optimise your demand driven supply chain model
• Enhancing the customer experience whilst reducing waste and eliminating inefficiencies
• Creating value offerings based on “Lean Thinking” principles
• Driving lean transformation in your organisation and empower your teams to lead change

Rick Desmarais

Director Lean & Operational Excellence
Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc.

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• Financial monitoring to Identify supply chain pain points highlighting the key drivers and KPI for cost optimization
• Review transportation spend to identify SCM root causes issue and reveal savings and optimization opportunities to overcome increasing competition and cost
• Effectively allocating resources and leverage 3PL capabilities in the most efficient way to reduce total supply chain cost and make the best use of your partners.
• Team work and collaborative efforts to leverage negotiation power and optimization within outsourced supply chain

Valerie le Blanc

Transport and Logistics Manager EMEAI
Beckman Coulter

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Todor Staneff

Senior Finance Manager
Beckman Coulter

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• What are the emerging models for integrated care?
• What are the challenges for supplychain in multi-agency care arrangements?
• What will be the role of distributors and supply networks in the new market?

Kevin Pritchard

Group Director – DCC Vital Logistics
Squadron Medical

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• Healthcare trends and supply chain implications: where we are, and what comes next?
• What are the opportunities and challenges that changes in society, technology and politics are bringing?
• Learn how best to navigate pressures and implement a healthy supply chain
• Be prepared for the future and uncover winning strategies for harvesting business opportunities in new markets

Jan Denecker

Marketing Director
UPS Europe

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• Assessing the benefits of closer strategy alignment across different business units; can this truly be achieved?

• How to leverage strategic partnerships to achieve the optimal distribution network design

• Examining how the relationship with LSP’s has changed in recent years and what this means for supply chain evolution

Michael Groebner

VP Operational Excellence - Global Operations
Smith & Nephew

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• Where does the balance sit now between servicing the client and protecting the bottom line? Do we have the balance right?
• Does supply chain flexibility and agility increase with outsourcing?
• How can supply chain support implementation and management of outsourced processes?
• Examining ways to reduce costs without compromising customer service levels
• Evaluating effective options for outsourcing supply chain operations

Rick Desmarais

Director Lean & Operational Excellence
Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc.

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Peter-Paul van Heesewijk

Vice President, Global Customer Service
St. Jude Medical

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Jenny Gough

GS1 Specialist, Supply Chain Management
Mölnlycke Health Care

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Bjoern Neal Kirchner

Vice President Supply Chain Management
Paul Hartmann

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In this innovative and interactive format, spend 20 minutes hearing a best practice case study before engaging in small interactive roundtable discussions to find solutions to some of your most critical challenges.

Discussion points:

• How to optimise your service supply chain as well as your costs: why is this often neglected in pursuit of lowering costs and what can supply chain do to drive further improvements?

• Learning to embrace service as a revenue generator: are we managing the customer experience to the best of our ability?

• Sharpening your ability to deliver business outcomes that go beyond cost reduction: how to harness your end-to-end supply chain capabilities to improve flexibility and responsiveness

Peter-Paul van Heesewijk

Vice President, Global Customer Service
St. Jude Medical

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In this innovative and interactive format, spend 20 minutes hearing a best practice case study before engaging in small interactive roundtable discussions to find solutions to some of your most critical challenges.

Discussion points:

• Looking along the whole value chain to see where optimal savings can be made

• Gain greater control of data visibility to make informed decisions that positively impact your bottom line

• Establish common global measurement standards to improve performance and increase reliability

• Jointly explore opportunities on further development of key strategic corridors

• Refining your technology strategy to reduce transportation and logistics costs: redefining your transport management systems to enhance cost efficiencies and improve visibility

Isabela Furtado

Supply Chain Manager EMEA
Terumo BCT

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Please grab a coffee and choose your final drill-down roundtable session