We take a side step this week, to interview Saxon Phipps, Founder and Director of Year 13, Australia’s largest digital platform for over 1.5 million high school leavers each year. In today’s podcast, we introduce Year 13 to our corporate community and explore how they are fast becoming major influencer on the next generation of supply chain professionals into our community. 

ASCI and our corporate members, FourPL - Supply Chain Specialists, are currently working with Year 13 to develop a clear career pathway for young people into supply chain management via their platform, like a one stop trusted shop for options into the career (watch this space). 

Year 13 will be hosting a virtual career fair during Careers Week in May. Visit heir website to see how you, as an employer, can get involved.www.year13.com.au

https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/schools-failing-to-promote-vocational-pathways-20190815-p52hic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iAL_4aU2zs

In this exclusive podcast with host Monique Fenech, Hari Lakkaraju, Specialist Supply Systems from Roy Hill shares the topic of his keynote address at Supply Chain & Procurement in Resources Australia Conference to be held in Perth 5-6 March.

Roy Hill is the proud Award recipient from the 2019 Award for Excellence in Supply Chain Management and Distribution for Intelligent Supply Chains and Hard is at the centre of its success. In his presentation Maximising cost competitiveness and efficiency, he will address Roy Hill's unique approach to: 

Goal of the MRO Supply System: Asset availability and Reliability - the VUCA world of MRO Supply Chain and opportunities of Industry 4.0

Supply Chain Strategy: Supply System Operating Principles, Demand driven replenishment and flow of Jobs, listening to the voice of the Asset and Responsiveness to Critical Maintenance, Disciplines of Plan, Schedule, Execute, Measure, Improve

Inventory Optimisation: Supply chain collaboration with integration to suppliers, the classic Hub and Spoke model and the Supply-Demand conundrum, material status reporting and identification of bottlenecks, supply demand gaps, MRP Exception monitoring 

ASCI Members receive a 20% discount to the Supply Chain & Procurement in Resources Australia Conference. Hear Hari and many other experts including ASCI Queensland Chapter President James Scotland; ASCI Western Australian Chapter President Indrasen Naidoo and ASCI Treasurer Geoff Palm at this exciting inaugural conference for WA. To register, go to the conference website and use promotional code: ASCI20

In this exclusive ASCI LOUNGE podcast, host Monique Fenech interviews Abe Eshkenazi, CEO, Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) about his imminent visit down under on 1 April 2020 to address skills gaps in transport, logistics and distribution. 

ASCM was launched under Abe’s leadership in 2019. It is built on the foundation of APICS, which Eshkenazi has led since 2006. ASCI has been a Premier Channel Partner of APICS since 1964.

Abe is excited about the future of logistics: artificial intelligence, robotics, automated racking, telematics and route optimisation, warehouse automation, intelligent fleet systems, blockchain, Internet of Things, big data and advanced analytics will all play a part. However, investment in standardised best practice knowledge across the industry is pivotal to the success of these technologies and the true competitive advantage.

For more information about studying the APICS Certified in Logistics, Transport & Distribution, visit our website today!

For corporate training enquiries please contact Monique Fenech on 0439 320 152.

Hear Abe's conference keynote at MEGATRANS on 1 April at the MCEC. Register here.

ASCI Corporate Members will receive a 20% discount to the conference with promo code: ASCI and will attend a private briefing with Abe at the venue at 1pm. Register here.

In this first podcast for 2020 we explore salaries in supply chain management with our corporate members Robert Walters. What are you worth in the market and which jobs are in high demand for 2020?

Make 2020 your year of professional development and growth. To become an ASCI Member, visit the ASCI website today!

To receive your free copy of the Salary Survey please reach out to Mairead Clancy or Martine Dines:

[email protected] 

0414 469 349

0403 326 875

In this podcast, ASCI Lounge host Monique Fenech is joined by Helene Hennequin, from Schneider Electric's Pacific Control Tower and winner of the 2019 ASCI Award for Excellence in Transport & Logistics.

Helene explains what it's like to work in a control tower; how it differs from a supply chain dashboard; and how it has evolved over time, increasingly improving benefits to internal and external stakeholders. Helene paints a practical picture of its challenges, future opportunities, and how it has been a great way to bring customers to the centre of decisions made on a daily basis. It is very deserving that Schneider Electric's Control Tower has been recognised for excellence in 2019. Well done Schneider Electric! 

Helene Hennequin can be contacted via LinkedIn

The call for submissions for ASCI2020 Awards is yet to be announced. Expressions of Interest can be made via [email protected] 

The ASCI2020 Awards Dinner will be held on 15 September in South West Sydney. Table booking and registration will be open soon!

In this exclusive podcast with Supply Chain Director, Annette Sando, ASCI Lounge host, Monique Fenech, explores how supply chain leaders are required to be 'Leaders of Learning' to inspire their teams' motivation for development. That's a philosophy that Annette has adopted over her extensive supply chain career, meeting many others in her years as an APICS facilitator practicing the same approach with positive results. 

Annette shares how the APICS certifications enhanced her career and gave her strong foundations for complex supply chain leadership roles. She shares the importance of the people she met through study and through volunteer roles on ASCI State Chapters and as the President at ASCI (then apicsAU).

Giving back is part of her DNA and in this podcast, Annette shares her leadership approach to supply chain, giving excellent practical tips for how to bring corporate strategy to the team level and bring the best out of your people in this constantly evolving and changing business environment.

Annette will be introducing Abe Eshkenazi, CEO, Association for Supply Chain Management (previously APICS) to the MEGATRANS stage on 1 April 2020 in Melbourne for the supply chain and logistics stream which will be a day of keynotes and panel discussions. For now up until the end of 2019, we're offering the last chance to purchase ASCM Membership through ASCI for just $440 with price increases set for 1 January 2020 to $475. Renew or buy ASCM Membership here. 

Its not too late to order your APICS certification and get studying over the holidays. You can purchase them from our Shop on the ASCI website at https://www.asci.org.au/shop 

Which certification is right for you? Check out the graph on our certification page: https://www.asci.org.au/certification 

Get in touch with Annette Sando via LinkedIn

Don't miss out on meeting Abe Eshkenazi at MEGATRANS in 2020! Visit: http://www.megatrans.com.au

In this latest podcast, ASCI Lounge host, Monique Fenech, invites Corporate Member JDA Software’s Jhordan Gil and Four PL’s COO Chris Poulton to the ASCI Lounge to share their thoughts on why technology adoption in the supply chain is so difficult. Actually, through new delivery models such as SaaS, both experts agree that it’s not going to be as difficult into the future, especially when leaders of organisations adopt a change management best practice approach to the project and listen to their solution providers for best results. Some great advice in this 16 minute interview. For more information visit: http://jda.com and  https://fourpl.com.au/

Buy your 12 month ASCI Membership today for just $275 pp and be proactive about your professional development in 2020. Visit our website for a full description of events, benefits and options: https://www.asci.org.au/membership/individual

In this latest podcast, ASCI CEO Ivan Imparato, says we are experiencing a vortex not felt before in our careers. This vortex is not a spiral down, but rather, a spiral up! We’re heading up, outside of our safety zones and comfort zones, to the upper echelons of the organisation. 

He shares his experience presenting at CEBIT this week on The Future of Work and Industry 4.0 to a mainstream business audience, many of whom are not used to hearing supply chain strategies tabled at one of their Tech events. Now is our chance to take the recognition and prestige we deserve.  How? Listen to this podcast and download our latest newsletter for ways you can travel up the vortex!

Join your supply chain professional community for just $275 per annum here.

Upcoming events:

 

ASCI Pharmaceutical Round Table Series: Track & Trace

When: 7.30-9.30am Tuesday 26 November

Where: Michael Page: Level 32, Grosvenor Place, 225 George St, Sydney

Cost: Free for ASCI Members and their guests | $50 non members

RSVP: [email protected] 

Track and trace is a key challenge for pharmaceutical supply chains. In this last roundtable for the year, we look at some great track and trace success stories and explore some blockchain early successes that are already appearing in our community.

Increasingly, pharmaceutical companies are putting blockchain to the test in order to track and trace the drugs they manufacture and ship. In fact, according to USA's Healthcare Weekly, blockchain is “getting massive attention” in health care, with 40% of industry executives reporting that it is in their top five priorities.

We'll table how one company is working to achieve pharmaceutical supply chain precision utilising a blockchain startup solution for tracking and managing of prescription medication through the supply chain while preventing misuse.

Other countries are seeing some success. Ugandan government is tracing counterfeit drugs within the country. The blockchain-based platform enables the recording of prescription medication, thus identifying counterfeit drugs and preventing their distribution in the pharmaceutical supply chain. United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Health and Prevention also launched a blockchain system for recording and sharing health care data.

Where is Australia making progress on this front?

Who should attend?

Individuals represent themselves and not their pharmaceutical organisations in this roundtable series. It is a sharing and learning environment which follows the strict guidelines as set out by ACCC. Any ASCI Member who is a supply chain, operations, procurement, or logistics practitioner working in the pharmaceutical industry is welcome to attend.

PLAN-Athon

When: All day 12 November

Where: 120 Spencer St, Melbourne

Cost: Free for ASCI Members

RSVP: Event Brite link

Join an interactive day long PLANathon led by Anaplan

Leverage the wisdom and skill base of the Australasian startup ecosystem, supply chain transformation and technology leaders

Create prototype innovations in supply chain planning, modelling and management.

Benefit from coaching from leading local and global consultancies who act as team mentors throughout the day.

Attend pre event briefings and training to prepare you for the day

Anaplan’s Supply Chain Innovation PLANathon supports the creation of actionable, implementable supply chain management assets.

This condensed one day innovation program will bring together think tanks of people working towards supply chain management innovation with best practice tools for identifying innovation needs, generating solutions, and implementing them on the ground.

ASCI Networking Breakfast Series: How can technology solve packaging compliance, sustainability and ethical trade challenges?

When: 7.30-9.30am Thursday 14 November

Where: Michael Page: Level 19, 600 Bourke St, Melbourne

Cost: Free for ASCI Members and their guests | $50 for non members

RSVP: [email protected]

Following on from the series of Sustainable & Ethical Procurement Round tables held around the country for ASCI members in June 2019, this two hour briefing drills down deeply into one of the common challenges which was identified across the supply chain community.

Sustainability and ethical trade are increasingly business critical topics for any board room and are now directly impacting consumer buying behaviour. Today consumers are encouraging brands to be more vocal about sharing information and being transparent. Implementing sustainability and ethical trade best practice requires collaboration across the supply chain and implementation of technology.

To begin, let's first look at what we can improve. There are an extraordinary amount of packaging inefficiencies that exist throughout the supply chain. And yet, consistency in packaging can result in meeting sustainable and ethical standards and enable cost saving optimisation of pallets, containers and warehouse space.

To meet your ethical standards you need to build a trusted supplier and factory network. Ethical Trade allows retailers to record factory audit results and manage the resolution of corrective action plans (CAP’s). Companies need a single database to record all the audit information, factory profiles, certification, audit reports, next audit dates, risk rating all in one place, preferably shared with their suppliers and factories.

Have we ticked all the boxes?

By end of this session, James Hargraves from Adjuno will ensure you have ticked all the boxes to understand how to implement efficient, ethical and sustainable solutions.

This is a must-attend event to help you understand how technology can optimise, improve and drive greater compliance with packaging, sustainability and ethical trade throughout the supply chain.

Ethical & Sustainable Supply Chains

When: 5:00pm-7:30pm Wednesday 13 November 

Where: Koolinda House Board Room, 2nd Floor, 3 Birksgate Road, North Quay, North Fremantle

Cost: Free for ASCI Members using the promo code ASCIVIP

RSVP: via Event Brite

The Australian Trade & Logistics Corporation (ATLC) will be holding a “Importer/Exporter Networking Event in partnership with Fremantle Ports, CBFCA and The Ethical Trade Alliance, and now ASCI. This event is a fantastic way to network and learn more about the latest international trade; and will give attendees the opportunity to meet importers, exporters and logistics professionals. This event will also include insightful presentations on ethical and sustainable supply chains and its impact importers, exporters and distributors worldwide.

A recent article in the AFR reported that Generation X is producing a new wave of CEOs who are far more international than their US counterparts and are more likely to have been promoted from within.

In our latest podcast ASCI Lounge host, Monique Fenech interviews Scott Theuerkauf, Integrated Supply Chain Solutions Provider at Hastings Deering, about his successful supply chain management career across continents. Though he is not a CEO, Scott agrees that international experience is of the utmost importance for supply chain managers for the future.

Scott has 15 years of experience working in the construction, mining and heavy machinery industries across a variety of supply chain management roles including procurement, logistics and operations for companies including Commercial Metals Company, Rio Tinto and Caterpillar.

In his current role at Hasting Deering, Scott is responsible for end to end supply chain optimisation projects that improve supply chain performance, drive profitable growth and build new capabilities and functional excellence in the buying, renting, selling and support for Caterpillar machinery in the construction & mining industries. 

Scott relays his experiences working across some tough terrains but he also shares the soft skills he acquired a long the way and how they've helped in his current role.

He gives some encouraging advice to young practitioners in supply chain - the world's your oyster!

APICS Certifications are globally recognised and offer you the chance to live and work overseas in supply chain. Check out our certification page on our website and take your global career move now! Term 4 registrations are closing next week!

In today's ASCI Lounge Update, ASCI CEO Ivan Imparato pledges a new concept reflecting on the current state of play in the supply chain community in Australia. He says "One Industry, One Voice" is a pledge that should challenge all of us to think about collaborative efforts if we are serious about growing the community.

In light of this, ASCI2019 is a conference that brings together many associations and industry bodies to learn, network and share with one another in the wake of massive disruptions and changes in our supply chains. But yes, there will be some element of competition as each team vies for the ASCI Leadership Cup. You can still buy your tickets at [email protected] 

Don't forget to finalise your plans for Term 4 study which has a registration close of September end. Visit our website for the details and costings or email [email protected] 

See you at the conference!