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Supply Chain Visibility, Insight & Collaboration (Oracle Conversation Series): Collaboration and the connected enterprise; de-risked decisions & predictive planning
Start Date:24 Nov 2020
End Date:24 Nov 2020
Event Code:C0384
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Supply Chain Visibility, Insight & Collaboration (Oracle Conversation Series)


Supply chains have become a strategic board room topic as each organisation looks to not only remain a going concern but also serve the customers of today and tomorrow. Data plays a key role in enabling simultaneous delivery of the 5C performance drivers (Cost, Customer Experience, Carbon Footprint, Compliance and Human Capital). To understand data and collaborate successfully organisations must:

a) Track, trace, and improve transparency and trust
b) Have speed in decision-making and aligned execution
c) Plan and collaborate across the network

Oracle, with support from CILT(UK), is delighted to welcome you to book your place at the conversation to discuss three differing aspects of supply chain visibility. The conversations will be “fireside chats” for approximately 45 minutes.

Conversation 3: Collaboration and the connected enterprise; de-risked decisions & predictive planning

Continuous and connected enterprise planning is key to ensure the market and supply dynamics are effectively and efficiently managed.

In the final part of this series, we will dive into supply chain collaboration with supply network partners to improve predictability and manage risk, explore the feasibility of united planning across functions and the evolution towards continuous planning.

This webinar will consider:
- How unexpected events and supply chain disruptions can be taken into consideration in adapting your plans
- Typical challenges that prevent continuous and connected planning
- Client case studies:
- Combining supply chain data with finance performance data to see the effect of supply chain disruptions on P&L and Balance Sheet
- Planning advisors that empower planners with prioritised issue escalation and guided resolution, freeing time for more strategic
planning activities
- Work and share data together with suppliers and suppliers’ suppliers to create greater visibility throughout the supply chain
- Managing outsourced manufacturing capacity
- Approaches to reduce development and implementation costs


When: Tuesday 24 November

Time: 11.30 – 12.15

Where: Zoom Webinar

Facilitator: Vikram Singla FCILT, Strategy Director – Digital Transformation, Oracle & CILT(UK) Board Member

Guests:
Professor David B Grant, Professor of Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility, Hanken School of Economics
Chris Cottington, Operational Design Director, Wolseley UK


Vikram Singla FCILT
Vikram has been with Oracle for 13 years, most recently as Director of Strategy and Business Development, focused on shaping business transformations with customers and driving go-to-market strategies for the digital transformation sales team in the UK. The role encompasses all industry verticals and finance/supply chain domains. He also leads the market development for the manufacturing sector and supply chain domain across enterprise accounts in the UK. Earlier this year Vikram became a CILT(UK) Board Member and he is focused on supporting the Institute in three ways. Member-centric: members are the reason for the existence of the Institute and the focus would to simplify their journey, help them build strong networks. Digital: the current crisis has only exacerbated the need to get digital right and at pace, by ensuring members understand and articulate the value the digital can add in business terms. Strategic: as supply chains become a boardroom topic, leaders will need to find effective ways and a strong partner to help with the way people change, with CILT playing a strategic role of enabling continuous learning and helping to exchange ideas through progressive supply chain leaders.


Professor David Grant
David B. Grant is Professor of Supply Chain Management & Social Responsibility, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland and Bua Luang ASEAN Chair Professor, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. His prior academic appointments include the Universities of Calgary in Canada, Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt Universities in Scotland, and Hull in England. His senior administrative appointments at the latter included Director of the Logistics Institute and Associate Dean (Business Engagement). David received his PhD from Edinburgh University in 2003. His thesis investigated customer service, satisfaction and service quality in UK food processing logistics and received the James Cooper Memorial Cup PhD Award from the UK Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport (CILT). His professional affiliations include the CILT and its Logistics Research Network (LRN), the French Association Internationale pour la Recherche en Logistique (AIRL), the Nordic Nordisk Forskning in Material Administration (NOFOMA), the US Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), the British Retail Consortium’s Storage and Distribution Technical Advisory Committee and Fellowship of the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA).

David’s research interests include customer service, satisfaction, and service quality, retail logistics, reverse and sustainable logistics, and humanitarian and societal logistics. His recent applied research has investigated retail store on-shelf availability and out-of-stocks, total loss and waste in food retailing, forecasting and obsolete inventory, service quality of internet retailers, and consumer logistics and shopping convenience.


Chris Cottington
Chris Cottington’s current role at Wolseley is that of Operational Design Director/Programme Director for our Future Business Design - Inventory and Order Management programme. This programme primarily uses Oracle Cloud technologies in conjunction with a reducing footprint of Legacy technologies. The programmes aim is to transform these areas of system and process delivering simplification, efficiency and a step change in Customer and Colleague experience.

Wolseley UK is part of Ferguson plc – the world's leading specialist distributor of plumbing and heating products. As a leading plumbing, heating and cooling trade specialist merchant in the UK, we aim to be the first choice for trade customers across the country.

Prior to his current role Chris held various Wolseley central support roles since May 2000 all with a Business Improvement focus. His career started in the now divested Heavyside division; latterly in central support and originally in branch operations roles including circa 10 years of branch operations management.


There no fee to join the conversations. To take advantage of this great opportunity, please use the 'Book Now' to secure your place at the event, or contact the Events Team.

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