Alcott Global hosted a webinar entitled, "Supply Chains after Covid19." Dr. John Gattorna, Roxane Desmicht, and Frederic Laluyaux joined us as panelists. The main topic of the webinar is on navigating through and out of the COVID-19 crisis and the changes we need to expect in the Supply Chain Industry.

Panelist: 

• Dr. John Gattorna - global thought leader, author, and consultant to Fortune500 MNCs
• Roxane Desmicht - global VP Supply Chain of ams Sensors Germany, one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world
• Frederic Laluyaux - CEO of Aera Technology, the cognitive automation software to transform your supply chain

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Greensill is the market-leading provider of working capital finance for companies globally. They provide Supply Chain Finance around the world,  from 20 days to 20 years and beyond, with ranges from $10mm to $5bn.

Ilkka is responsible for originating and structuring innovative financial solutions for clients across the world. Prior to Greensill, he served as CEO for three Australian listed companies and growing businesses to a global scale across a number of industries. And is what he calls himself an “unemployable character”

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Funding USD142 billion for global trade
• On-boarding 19,800 suppliers to a client’s platform 
• The difference between Greensill and a bank 
• Future developments in trade finance
• How to look at risk and due diligence in supply chain finance

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Ash Pujari leads solution management for SAP Digital Supply Chain in APJ and Greater China. A 28 year veteran in this space, Ash has seen it all. He has been a practitioner, consultant, entrepreneur, sales leader, and value engineer - all in the space of supply chain management.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Creating redundancies in the supply chain to mitigate risks
• Collaboration with employees to manage the crisis
• Building partnership through honesty
• How SAP enables their team to work from home
• Making the process of hiring more data-driven

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David brings 35+ years of manufacturing experience in computer, automotive, aerospace, furniture, and chemical industries. He has worked for General Motors and Chrysler, as well as Foxconn and Jabil. Build and managed several automotive plants in North America. Successfully turned around Foxconn’s Mexico plant in the middle of the swine flu crisis 2009-2010. And for the last 10 years, he has been living in China.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• How manufacturers deal with the supply and demand crisis
• People won’t buy cars or planes too soon. What can the industry do?
• How did companies in China resume manufacturing: dos and donts
• Take care of your suppliers otherwise, you can’t make your product.
• How to keep the factory running during a pandemic

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Christopher Logan is currently a Managing Director at Accenture and Leads the Freight and Logistics Practice across Growth Markets: Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• How China’s supply chain system got back up in early March
• 3 advices for CEOs of logistics companies after COVID-19 
• Rise of e-commerce and last-mile in times of crisis
• How to balance bottom line and care for employees
• “Characters are not built during a crisis, but characters are revealed in times of crisis.”

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Antonio oversees Blue Yonder’s operations in APAC and is responsible for the continued growth in the region through customer, partner, and associate engagement.

Antonio has more than 20 years of global supply chain experience, including the sales, implementation, consulting and development of SCM solutions.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Ripple effects of the coronavirus pandemic in supply chains
• Change of customer’s behavior due to the COVID19 crisis – retail vs e-commerce
• How a retailer with 50% market share has stable systems with good visibility
• How can technology help the supply chain industry amidst the coronavirus crisis
• How the Luminate Control Tower solution helps predict possible disruptions in the supply chains
• Collaboration between Blue Yonder and Microsoft

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 It is a pleasure to have with us in this episode Sarah Barnes-Humphrey and Eric Johnson on a conversation on startups and new technologies in supply chain. 

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• The funding of startups amidst the coronavirus crisis
• How innovators can use the current situation for future development
• Profitability vs Hyper scaling
• Big companies and startups working together
• The importance of storytelling in attracting talent

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Ken has been with the DP DHL group for 35 years, in various roles and capacities.

HE is well known in the industry for the turn around he achieved as global CEO of DHL Express - under his leadership between 2009 to 2018, the company reversed over a decade of poor financial performance and declining market share to become one of the most profitable transportation units in the world.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Dhl Express turn around from losing 2.2 billion euro in 2008 and making 2 billion euro in 2018. 
• What does being insanely customer-centric mean for DHL Express
• How to become one of the worlds best places to work
• Key leadership principles from Ken book "Radical simplicity"
• Using music as a leadership style
• “Business is a sport, not a war.”

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Brittain Ladd has worked with Amazon for Worldwide E-Commerce and Cross Border Expansion, Amazon Fresh and Pantry Operations, and as a consultant with Deloitte and Capgemini as well as a few other global MNCs in their supply chain BUs.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• How the e-commerce industry grows amidst the Coronavirus crisis
• Why Google should buy Shopify and FedEx to compete with Amazon
• Death of retail?
• Amazon will take 12% to 20% of the global 3PL market.
• Amazon will be the biggest grocer seller by 2025 to 2028

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Tony sits on the Emeritus Council of Advisors for Supply Chain Asia and Chairman of the Transported Asset Protection Association Asia Pacific, a non-profit organization.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Coronavirus crisis: 200 million workers have not returned to their jobs; 60% of companies did not have a contingency plan 
• The automotive industry in the next 4 to 12 weeks.
• How the crisis is affecting the whole electronics manufacturing sector
• What can companies do to mitigate risk in their Supply Chains
• Other potential risk clusters: Korea, Japan, Italy

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