08:30 Opening Remarks From The Chairman

Investment and general overview

08:40 Keynote Presentation: Leveraging Saudi Arabia’s Competitive Advantages Through Effective Collaboration And Investment

• Exploring KSA’s strong demand for growth
• Explaining the improved efficiencies and speeds to market
• Mapping future investment areas to improve import and export capabilities

To be confirmed

09:10 Global Trends In The Financial Supply Chain Industry

• Explaining the financial supply chain and it’s relation to the physical supply chain
• Translating global trends in emerging markets to Saudi Arabia
• Analysing critical success factors that aided recovery from the financial downturn
• Discussing predicted future trends in the financial supply chain

Daniel Schmand
Managing Director Head of Trade Finance Western Europe and MENA
Deutsche Bank

09:40 Highlighting How To Implement Successful Demand & Supply Planning Operation In Saudi Arabia

• Demand Planning – Integrating process that led to better sales forecast and hence optimised inventory and customer service levels
• Supply Planning– Converting the sales forecast into supply plans using the right planning buckets and regions together with weekly review
• Product Availability – Capturing daily lost sales and taking short term and long term actions to ensure sales are not lost

Ahsan S. Razzaq
General Manager - Corporate Supply Chain
Olayan Financing Company

Supply chain methodology and technologies

10:40 Enhancing Flexibility And Visibility Of Stock Through Supply Chain Inventory Management

• The role of demand forecasting and planning to reduce working capital
• Identifying the dangers of freezing assets in stock and how this can be avoided by using inventory optimisation
• What is the importance of procurement in the integrated supply chain?
• The use of information systems in inventory management. Why ERP, MRP, DRP and supply chain intelligence?
• End-to-end supply chain intergration from demand to fuilfillment

André N. Verdier
Strategic Member
Supply Chain and Logistics Group(SCLG)

11:10 Evaluating The ROI When Utilising A Warehouse Management Solution (WMS)

• Discussing why companies still view the WMS project as a cost and not an investment
• Implementing a WMS can actually generate various cost savings as well as increase cash in-flow by improving sales
• Evaluating the return-on-investment of a WMS project

Wael Mabsout
Senior Consultant
SNS

11:40 Outsourcing And 3PL ‘101’: Translating Global Success Strategies For The Saudi Arabian Market

• Defining 3PL and how it can improve speed, flexibility and visibility of stock
• Identifying how outsourcing can dramatically improve service to internal and external customers in a highly competitive market
• Dispelling the myth of ‘loss of control’ when outsourcing the supply chain

Mohamed Taher
Logistics Operations Manager
Kraft Foods

13:10 Case Study: Using Sales And Operation Planning (S&OP) Strategies To Meet Increased Demands And Maximise Service Levels

• Understanding how S&OP fit in the entire supply chain picture
• Recgognising how a robust S&OP can help your company succeed in the current changing economic conditions
• Implementing S&OP into your company and highlighting how it can work for you
• Implications behind the failure of S&OP

Yasir Jamal
Supply Chain Director
Unilever Arabia

Skills and education in supply chain management

13:40 Minimising The Education And Skills Gap In Supply Chain Management In KSA

• Benchmarking KSA against the rest of the world
• Identifying the source of this lack of knowledge and how it can be improved moving forward
• Implications of difficulties in obtaining visas for experienced professionals

Alexander Borg MCIPS (Stam) MIM CMILT UK
Regional Director & Co-ordinator
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

14:10 Developing Education And Training To Enhance Information Flow And Subsequent Efficiency Through The Supply Chain

• Addressing the characteristics of information and how to translate it into knowledge
• Investigating the creation of a knowledge-based supply chain through continuous learning
• Identifying 21st century competencies for successful supply chain management teams
• Highlighting success stories and best practices in supply chain information management

Abdullah Khaldi CSCP
CPM and ACPF ,Supply Chain Specialist
Saudi Aramco

15:10 A New Era Of Supply Chain Sustainability

• Defining supply chain sustainability
• Discussing the increased complexity and globalisation across all industry sectors and how this has increased the potential for supply chain disruptions
• Supply chain risk and the potential impact on business operations
• Identifying the heightening need for a sustainable supply chain that can ensure business continuity
• Examining the need for balancing the economic, ecologic and service factors of the supply chain for resiliency

Douglas Kent
Chairman
European Supply Chain Council’s Leadership Team

15:50 Recognising Supply Chain Management Need Elsewhere Within The Region. Case Study Qatar Petroleum

• Identifying the significant market for logistics services within Qatar and specifically within Qatar Petroleum
• Evaluating the internal rate of return for the development of a Qatar Petroleum 4PL service
• Considering a SWOT analysis of the formation of an independent Oil & Gas Logistics Company (OGLC)
• Transferring these findings to the Saudi Arabian market

Jaseem Al Subaey
Transmission and Distribution Manager
Qatar Petroleum

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