Conference Day One - Wednesday 16 October 2019
7:00 am - 8:35 am Registration and Welcome Coffee
7:30 am - 8:30 am BREAKFAST MASTERCLASS: How can you best navigate your way through industry transformation?
From digital disruption, inventory overload, trade instability and natural disasters to new products, regulations, and competitor - there are many relevant challenges impacting medical device logistics. Join us for a breakfast and an informal discussion on the key topics keeping you awake at night.
We’ll explore solutions that will help you not only survive but thrive in today’s volatile market place.
8:35 am - 8:40 am Welcome Remarks
8:40 am - 8:45 am Chairperson’s Opening Address
Transforming Your Supply Chain With Digital Innovations
8:45 am - 9:05 am OPENING KEYNOTE: How can you leverage advances in AI, ML and RPA across your supply chain to automate manual processes and allow your employees to focus on value add tasks?
· How to develop an optimal network design that achieves the right balance between customer centricity, traditional supply chain cost principles and innovation
· How to identify and run first pilot projects in order to gain ROI
· The growing importance of vertical integration: What platforms and standards you should be using for the data exchange
· What are the opportunities for AI implementation across supply chain in order to automate manual processes and get true visibility
9:05 am - 9:45 am FIRESIDE CHAT: Realising the benefits of digital transformation: What are the critical success factors for creating a digital supply chain vision and gaining momentum throughout the implementation phase?
· What is the role of supply chain in the overall digital strategy of your company?
· How can digital help to close gaps within your supply chain E2E visibility, customer communication and costs?
· What technologies should you be considering now to create agile and responsive supply chain operations?
· How to develop digital solutions that create value to your customers
Christophe Suizdak
Global Supply Chain Leader, Strategy & Digital TransformationGE Healthcare
9:45 am - 10:05 am INTERVIEW: How will connected medical devices transform the healthcare industry and how can you best prepare to capitalise on the prospects of a more autonomous supply chain?
· How to use digitalisation to take an active role in patient healthcare
· What is the role of supply chain in digital healthcare?
· What are the opportunities to capture patient data to drive autonomous supply chains?
· How the future of digital health will look and how it will impact supply chain cost and profitability models
10:05 am - 10:35 am Morning Networking Break
Achieving End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility
10:35 am - 11:05 am CASE STUDY: How can you best approach your current consignment and trunk stock inventory challenges?
11:05 am - 11:25 am CASE STUDY: How to optimise production and distribution planning projects to achieve a greater level of flexibility and end-to-end supply chain visibility
· What is the best approach to balance demand and capacity indicators
· How to select and analyse a right set of data to plan on a network level
· How to overcome complexities caused by supply chain structures and get full visibility of the process’s limitations
· How to capture and analyse customer data to optimise planning activities including distribution, transportation and production
11:25 am - 11:45 am CASE STUDY: How is digitalisation the path forward for your MedTech Operations?
Sebastien Tornassat
Senior Program Director, Head of Strategy Execution Office, CVG Global OperationsMedtronic
11:45 am - 12:25 pm ALL STAR PANEL DISCUSSION: How can you integrate distributors, LSPs and external network partners into your supply chain and streamline key processes to deliver smoother workflows to your customers?
Moderator:
Rob Drag Scan4Safety Programme Lead Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Speakers:
Frank Moonen Director Global Delivery Excellence Boston Scientific
Jimmy Khoo Vice President, Supply Chain Europe & EMA Becton Dickinson
Mark Ewing EMEAC Supply Chain Director Hologic
Frederic Picano Head of supply chain EMEA bioMérieux
Rob Drag Scan4Safety Programme Lead Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Speakers:
Frank Moonen Director Global Delivery Excellence Boston Scientific
Jimmy Khoo Vice President, Supply Chain Europe & EMA Becton Dickinson
Mark Ewing EMEAC Supply Chain Director Hologic
Frederic Picano Head of supply chain EMEA bioMérieux
· How to establish effective communication channels between manufacturer, distributor and customer in order to ensure the expected quality and service level
· Understanding different parties’ supply chain processes to provide needed support regarding data sharing, deliveries and order management
· How to improve the level of trust among all parties to achieve effective collaboration that eventually benefits end users
· How to copy the Amazon model in order to embrace opportunities of patient home deliveries and personalised medicine
12:25 pm - 12:45 pm CASE STUDY: How to build true end-to-end business integration?
12:45 pm - 1:50 pm Networking Lunch
12:45 pm - 1:50 pm SYNERGY WORKSHOP: How can increased levels of documentation automation and AI provide new benefits for complex supply chains?
In this workshop we’ll explore what supply chain benefits can be gained through document automation when managing a multi-country, multi-language, customer service integration project.
What are the additional benefits now realised from the continued investment in AI-driven solutions and what are the future considerations in such technologies to further enhance this success?
TRACKS
STREAM A – Progressing Your S&OP Maturity
1:50 pm - 2:35 pm ALL STAR Panel Interactive: What are the key elements of a well performing S&OP roadmap that delivers effective and efficient supply chain operations?· Should S&OP teams report to commercial or supply chain functions?
· What is the optimal integration level across the company?
· How to measure the effectiveness of your S&OP process: At what point might you get counter productivity?
· Should you be considering inventory levels in your S&OP?
· Innovative technologies you should be investing in now in order to improve the accuracy of your planning and efficiency of the S&OP process
STREAM A – Progressing Your S&OP Maturity
2:35 pm - 3:05 pm Case Study: How to best plan around irregular orders from distributors to ensure forecasting accuracy, inventory availability and production control
STREAM B – Building Global Distribution Networks
1:50 pm - 2:05 pm CASE STUDY: What are the lessons learnt from insourced control towers and how can you achieve a higher level of ownership over your logistics processes?· What skills and resources you need to put in place to build the control tower organization
· Aligning systems and tools across the entire supply chain
· Achieved results: Increased visibility and control over your inventory and transport operations
· What are the extra benefits you can achieve from the implementation of these technologies?
STREAM B – Building Global Distribution Networks
2:05 pm - 2:45 pm CASE STUDY: How to overcome challenges operating and entering regulated emerging and sanctioned markets
STREAM B – Building Global Distribution Networks
2:45 pm - 3:05 pm CASE STUDY: How to build a robust supply chain network in the Middle East and Africa that overcomes the limitations of regional logistics infrastructure and better meets local customer needs· How to strengthen the cooperation with LSPs and equip them with the support needed to manage customs, paperwork and physical movement of goods better
· What is best practice in shipping dangerous goods to the Middle East region?
· Lessons learned from successful and unsuccessful product launches in these regions
STREAM C – Interactive Working Groups
1:50 pm - 2:50 pm WORKSHOP: How to enable your end-to-end supply chain with Integrated Business PlanningThis interactive workshop will explore the key elements businesses need to set in place to enable effective end to end supply chain planning. Oliver Wight Partner, Andy Walker will highlight the importance of ensuring your enterprise has robust commercial planning, good internal behaviours and clarity on strategy – all fundamental pre-requisites in enabling optimisation of the end to end supply chain. Alongside this, Andy will explore how Integrated Business Planning can be utilised to drive both internal and end to end supply chain planning excellence.
STREAM C – Interactive Working Groups
2:50 pm - 3:50 pm Workshop: How can co-creation help address burning supply chain challenges?This workshop will share recent case studies where FedEX & Boston Scientific have worked together to create bespoke solutions for temperature-controlled medical device deliveries. The floor will then be open for a series of interactive exchanges on supply chain challenges and how collaboration can add value and benefits for you as a supply chain leader.
3:05 pm - 3:50 pm Afternoon Networking Break
In this highly interactive small group format, choose the topic most reflective of your current challenges, then dive deep with your peers and benefit from informal bench marking opportunities, as the roundtable explores:
