China's economic downturn has an enormous strike on China's real economy. Many companies, FMCG companies in particular, have shown decreasing trends in turnover growth. In these challenging economic times, in order to maintain profitability growth and increase revenue, businesses must increase market share, which is driven by improvement of service level. In a word, with a lowered market growth rate, the only pathway to increase profitability is by improving operational efficiency and optimizing supply chain system.
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VP Operations, L'Oréal Emmanuel PLAZOL, L'Oreal APAC supply chain director and China Operations VP, is one of the most seasoned experts with 25 years of experience in Supply Chain. He started his career in L'Oreal France in 1992 and joined the US in 2001, where he went through most of Supply Chain functions to finally become Head of US Supply Chain. Since 2011, he has led Group's Supply Chain before joining APAC zone last year as Supply Chain director.
CPD Supply Chain Director, L'OréalMr. Chen has ten years working experiences in cosmetic industry & supply chain management, including 5+ years in senior management positions in APAC Zone and L’Oréal China. Currently he serves as Supply Chain Director of L’Oréal China Consumer Products Division, in charge of a 60+ people team including Demand Planning, VMI & Supply Chain Planning. His responsibility includes daily operation management and strategic planning to fulfill the Divisions’ growth needs.
Planning and S&OP Capability Lead,Heineken Group April has worked with companies like Unilever, Campbell's, and HEINEKEN in New Zealand in various Supply Chain areas such as Demand Planning, S&OP, warehousing, shipping, inventory management and VMI. In Jan 2016, April has been appointed as the Planning Consultant under the Global Customer Service & Logistics department, helping the development and implementation of “Planning and S&OP capabilities” for HEINEKEN in Asia Pacific Region.
Supply Chain Planning Association Director, Danone Waters ChinaJessie has worked in supply chain function in Huntsman, Colgate and Danone for more than 15 years, she is leading S&OP and strategy planning in Danone Waters China.
Jessie has rich experiences on order management, customer relationship & collaboration , demand planning, strategic & tactical planning as well as S&OP operation.
Director and Deputy General Manager, BearingPoint Mr. Bernstorf has more than 6 years of working experience in China and more than 15 years as a business consultant for BearingPoint. He has rich experience in developing and implementing business and IT strategies, transforming business operations, with a focus on SCM topics, optimizing business processes and aligning Business and IT in context with digital challenges.
FuturMaster founder & CEO, FuturMaster Dr. Bo Zhou graduated from Paris Dauphine University with a doctoral degree in Decision Support Systems in 1989. He dedicated his career to research and practice of Supply Chain Management. For over 20 years. Dr. Zhou has been helping the world's top companies improve Supply Chain performance. He led the team to design and implement hundreds of Supply Chain Management processes/solutions for customers across industries.
VP Sales & Marketing, FuturMaster Michel Ramis joined FuturMaster as the VP of Sales & Marketing in 2013. Mr. Ramis worked over 6 years as a Group CEO of VcsTimeless (Cegid Group), previously he joined JDA as Southern Europe VP. With extensive management experience at global software companies, Mr. Ramis has profound insights into areas such as marketing strategy, corporate vision and team management.
VP Consulting，FuturMaster Wilfrid Lemasson, VP of consulting at FuturMaster, joined the company in 2015 to manage all the consultants worldwide of FuturMaster. He has 20 years working experience in consulting and software industries. He previously worked for Accenture, ADP and Dassault Systèmes, held senior executive positions such as EMEA VP at Apriso Services.
Senior Consultant, FuturMaster Yan Cui is a senior consultant of FuturMaster. He used to work in Honeywell implementing S&OP for Honeywell ECC in APAC. He designed and implemented a number of supply chain optimization solutions across North AmericaSouth America, Europe, South East Asia and China. Areas of specialization include Supply Planning, S&OP, Network Optimization and Process Re-engineering.
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Welcoming SpeechBo Zhou, FuturMaster founder & CEO, FuturMaster
What's the Challenges of Supply Chain Management in a New Normal Economy? Bo Zhou, FuturMaster founder & CEO, FuturMaster During years you have mastered to manage high speed growth. The new normal features a mid to low speed growth. And you are expected to manage more new product launch in order to sustain the growth, to manage an ever extended supply network in order to reach new consumer, to deliver a higher service level in order to develop and maintain market share, to increase the efficiency of the production facilities in order to meet future demand with existing production capacity, and to reduce overall costs in order to improve the bottom line. Dr. Zhou will share with you how supply chain planning is going to enable you to meet all these expectations.
Tea Break
Delivering Value with Supply Chain in a Digital Age Emmanuel Plazol, VP Operations, L'Oréal Hammer Chen, CPD Supply Chain Director, L'Oréal China
Are You Going to Lead the Company in the Next Decade ? Michel Ramis, VP Sales & Marketing, FuturMaster Mr. Ramis will introduce the role of CSCO and address its 5 key challenges. As you know, executing the global supply chain strategy is a juggling act between revenue growth, cost savings and continuous improvement Vs transformation. But how do you get there? In the speech, he will elaborate 5 imperatives for successful execution of your strategy.
Luncheon
Productivity Challenges of Manufacturing in China Jan Bernstorf, Director and Deputy General Manager, BearingPoint Jan will introduce the results of a recently completed survey that BearingPoint executed in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich among manufacturing companies in China. What are key productivity challenges in China? What are potential measures to overcome them and what are potential ways to implement them? These and more questions will be addressed during this session.
Extend Our Supply Chain with Customers April Duan, Planning and S&OP Capability Lead, Heineken Group April will dive into the bullwhip effect caused by multiple players of the supply chain. This leads to the discussion of how we can extend the internal supply chain in a further direction. Various data like sell-in, sell-out, Stock-on-Hand at distributors will be further explained. Then followed by the illustrations of modern supply chain concepts such as CPFR and VMI. Their critical prerequisites and key success factors are then examined.
Tea Break
Address the Increasingly Complex Supply Chain Challenges with FuturMaster's Support Wilfrid Lemasson, VP Consulting, FuturMaster Yan Cui, Senior Consultant, FuturMaster Most companies are striving to deliver the right product to the right customer at the right time, and meanwhile, at the lowest cost. To achieve this target, many of them struggle with many tough trade-offs. Success factors for supply chain excellence include Right People, Right Process, and Right Technology to support the process. This presentation focuses on how FuturMaster supports you in achieving supply chain excellence.
Strive for Supply Chain Excellence, Support Business Growth Jessie Cai, Supply Chain Planning Association Director, Danone Waters China Supply Chain act as an accelerator of the business, how to strive supply chain excellence with high performing and minimizing total cost to serve? Jessie will introduce lean & agile supply chain with modeling for cost, service and investment, including right location, right size for optimizing network planning, collaboration with external partners to fuel the growth.
Supply Chain Panel Discussion Host : Bo Zhou, FuturMaster founder & CEO, FuturMaster Panelists : Emmanuel Plazol, VP Operations of Asia Pacific and China, L'Oréal April Duan, Planning and S&OP Capability Lead, Heineken Group Jessie Cai, Supply Chain Planning Association Director , Danone Waters China Jan Bernstorf, Director and Deputy General Manager, BearingPoint
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