24 - 26 April, 2012
Geneva

Main Conference Day 1 – Wednesday 25th April 2012

Bridging the Gap Between End-to-End Supply Chain Strategy and Successful Implementation

 

8:30 Registration and refreshments
Registration and refreshments
9:00 Chairperson's welcome and opening remarks
Richard Holmes, Partner, Lodestone Management Consultants
Chairperson's welcome and opening remarks
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Richard Holmes
Partner, Lodestone Management Consultants

Richard’s career has focused on global supply chain management for over 28 years, encompassing Life Sciences, Chemicals and Consumer Goods industries. A qualified Chemical Engineer, his early career was spent with the ICI Group of Companies where he fulfilled a wide range of roles including plant management, process engineering, operations excellence and strategic sourcing. In 1996, he joined the [read more]
9:10 Keynote opening address: Provision of health to the world: Macro perspectives, developments and implications for the global pharma industry
John Koelink, Head of Global Supply Chain, Bayer Healthcare
  • The changing payer and reimbursement environment in established markets and what this means for healthcare delivery and supply chain complexity
    • SKU and channel proliferation
    • Longer global supply chains
    • Sourcing and market development in emerging market economies
  • How emerging disruptive technologies are transforming supply chain management and distribution functions
  • Shifting efforts from planning for the impact of patent expirations to a strategy for leading the organisational changes necessary to adapt to this new, dynamic and challenging environment
    • It’s not just about strategy – supply chains need to ensure effective implementation and execution to drive returns from initiatives
    • How talent development and retention will be key to staying ahead of the pack
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John Koelink
Head of Global Supply Chain, Bayer Healthcare

9:40 Driving the integration of functional capabilities across the supply chain: Bringing together cross-functional expertise holistically and seamlessly
Philippe Francois, VP, Supply Chain EMEA, Baxter Healthcare
  • Progressing from a historically fragmented operation into one end-to-end delivery and supply chain
  • The key drivers of successful cross-functional integration
    • What outside groups can bring to the table
    • Developing the right success metrics
    • S&OP process optimisation
    • Better integration of planning and execution
  • Focussing in on social elements and communication that result in high performance
    • Achieving true information sharing between functions
    • Enterprise resource planning systems to support and enhance rapid, informed decision making
  • Implementing a supply chain planning process to support and enhance cross-functional components
  • What strategies and tactics you can employ to bring about alignment and incentivisation across your supply chain organisation
Philippe Francois

Philippe Francois
VP, Supply Chain EMEA, Baxter Healthcare

Philippe Francois is currently the Supply Chain vice president for Baxter healthcare for the Europe Middle East and Africa region He holds a master degree in engineering and an MBA and started his career in the automotive industry in France where he acquired a solid experience in Just in time techniques. He joined the healthcare industry where he has been working for the last 15 years and acquire [read more]
10:10 Rethinking the routes to market: how an adaptive supply chain can respond to market changes and increasing customer focus
Paolo Rosanna, Vice President Business Development, Western Europe, DHL Supply Chain
  • Postponement fits with trends and changes in the Global Marketplace?
  • Benefits and challenges of implementing an adaptive supply chain
  • Why an LSP may be the ideal candidate
Paolo Rosanna

Paolo Rosanna
Vice President Business Development, Western Europe, DHL Supply Chain

After his degree in Business Administration with a major in Marketing at the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi of Milan in 1990, Paolo Rosanna started his career in international Freight Forwarding in the UK, USA and Italy with MSAS Cargo International. Paolo has developed his expertise both in operations and business development, focusing on Life Sciences & Healthcare, followin [read more]