Leaders in Tech and Ecommerce

Stephan de Barse is the EVP of o9 Solutions, driving digital transformation with some of the leading Fortune-500 companies. Globally responsible for all Business Development, Digital Marketing, Creative Marketing, o9 Design Lab, Alliances, Sales Activities, and Strategic Networks and shared P&L responsibility for the Global Revenue Number of the Company.

Founded in 2009, o9 is an AI-enabled platform providing solutions for operations and business planning. Its offerings include demand forecasting, commercial planning, supply chain planning, and Integrated Business Planning, among others.

o9 serves clients in many industry verticals, including retail, consumer goods, apparel, consumer electronics, industrial manufacturing, and oil & gas. It boasts large enterprises such as Google, Walmart, Estee Lauder Companies, Bridgestone, Caterpillar, Nike, General Electric, T-Mobile, and Starbucks, among its clients.

o9’s annual recurring revenue grew by more than 100% y-o-y last year, according to o9.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• [11:02] Solving Fortune 500 Supply Chain planning challenges
• [17:39] Scenario planning and the COVID -19 crisis – the past data have become the worst predictor of the future
• [25:23] Use cases – talking about the largest retailer in the US and Canada
• [30:20] Why a digital twin of the supply chain is important
• [40:17] Strengthening the Supply Chain community with AIM10x
• [45:49] o9 unicorn expansion plans & hiring

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JJ Ang is the Chief Financial Officer of Sendo.vn. Launched in March 2012, Sendo is currently one of the largest C2C marketplaces in Vietnam with a GMV of over US$1 billion dollars annually. 

Prior to this, JJ had over ten years of investment banking and fundraising experience and worked across the globe in countries such as New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Peru, and now, Vietnam. He had also co-founded a merchant bank based in Singapore, which the company had raised close to a billion dollars of growth capital for different management teams over the course of four years.  

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• How the COVID-19 crisis-affected Vietnam’s ecosystem
• Opportunities and challenges for e-commerce platforms
• Fundraising & Investment advice
• Technology investment during the crisis
• Dealing with investment and valuation during a crisis
• The situation of the job market today
• Importance of leading by example and communication

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Pedram Assadi has been the COO of foodpanda APAC since January 2019. Pedram began his career within the food delivery industry more than six years ago, starting his own food delivery company in the Middle East. He then moved to Dubai as Head of Operations in Uber. In his current role, he oversees ongoing business operations in the region. Prior to his work in the food delivery industry, Pedram spent three years working for Amazon." 

As part of global leader Delivery Hero, foodpanda APAC now features over 150,000 restaurants on its platforms region-wide and spearheads sustainability activities in the food delivery industry.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Onboarding 15.000 new restaurant partners and 50.000 new rider partners
• Entering the Quick-Commerce industry becoming a  hyperlocal service company
• Pandamart and the grocery space – 1000 Cloudstores in APAC 
• How did the COVID-19 crisis affect foodpanda’s operations
• Giving time back to customers – foodpanda’s most important currency is ‘time’

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Charles Debonneuil is the Group CEO of Intrepid Group Asia. Intrepid Group Asia is a 3-year-old company that manages the eCommerce presence of international brands on major eCommerce platforms like Lazada/Shopee across South East Asia.

Prior to this, Charles is also the co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Lazada Group, which he had been with since its early inception days as co-founder of Lazada Vietnam, Charles eventually took on the Chief Marketing Officer role of Lazada Group - and is taking care of marketing activities across South East Asia until August 2018.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Marketplace profitability and customer acquisition strategy
• How are big brands coping and moving to e-commerce platforms
• The shift on consumer behavior
• How the COVID-19 crisis affected the e-commerce industry

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Johanna Småros (Ph.D.) is one of RELEX Solutions’ three co-founders. Before founding RELEX, Johanna conducted ground-breaking research on retail supply chains. She is the author of tens of peer-reviewed academic articles on supply chain management and optimization.

Johanna received the Young Scientist Entrepreneur Award in 2014 and the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award in 2017.

RELEX Solutions is a leading provider of cutting-edge retail optimization software that is built for the age of Living Retail, where change is the only constant. We help retailers such as Morrisons, PetSmart, Rossmann, and AutoZone adapt to every future, faster. Our cloud-native Living Retail Platform delivers pragmatic AI across all retail functions and at a retail scale. We offer a fast lane to value that builds from a foundation of radically improved demand forecasting and supply chain optimization. Our customers leverage this enhanced visibility of demand and supply into exponential benefits — optimizing their retail space, workforce, pricing, and promotion strategies ­— all within our unified platform.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• AI and Machine Learning limitations and advantages during a crisis.
• Most important trends in supply chain retail impacted by the covid19 crisis.
• How a drug store retailer in Germany with 2000 stores took 2 days to deal with the surge in their demand patterns. 
• Working from home and the importance of informal interactions.
• Expect nothing and everything –  be flexible and adapt.

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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. With SAP, Ash joined to lead the Digital Supply Chain and IoT line of business for the APJ region where he oversaw a triple-digit growth in the cloud business. His current mandate is to help set up an Industry4.0 Lab in Japan along with driving the “design to operate” solution portfolio in the region. Prior to SAP Ash was part of the Asia leadership teams for Manugistics/JDA, Cap Gemini & SSA Global (now called Infor).

SAP in  a few numbers: 

SAP has  100.000 employees and  437,000+ customers come in all sizes and work in every industry and geographic region you can imagine. They include 92% of the Forbes Global 2000 and 98% of the world’s top 100 most valued brands. The company’s revenue for 2019 was €27.553 billion euro

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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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Stefan Reidy is the founder and the CEO of the Swiss Arviem AG, helping manufacturers, exporters and importers to reveal inefficiencies in their supply chains by enabling transparent global trade via supply chain visibility solutions and real-time cargo monitoring services. Stefan has over 20 years of experience with innovative technologies and business models in the supply chain which he gathered both by working for corporations and in the startup environment.
 
Arviem answers the need of organizations for more transparency and visibility in their supply chains.  They reveal the flow of goods and finances in the supply chain by providing an independent, real-time, end-to-end cargo monitoring and supply chain visibility service. Arviem is offering a full, carefree service to customers that allows them to track all their global shipments, regardless of the transportation mode or the logistics service provider, on one single platform.  Arviem offers services around working capital optimization, inventory financing, supply chain risk management and carbon footprint monitoring of logistics.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• How is Arviem helping their clients during this time of crisis
• The importance of visibility and reliable data to the industry
• Arviem’s working capital financing solutions
• Managing carbon footprint with the help of technology
• Trusting the “gut feeling” in hiring talent

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Happy to have with us today Antonio Boccalandro the President, Asia Pacific at Blue Yonder. 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.

Prior to this role, Antonio served as President for the Latin America region where he had responsibilities for sales operations throughout the region, including offices in Mexico, Chile and Brazil. 

Blue Yonder, Inc. (formerly JDA Software, Inc.) provides seamless, friction-free commerce, empowering every organization and person on the planet to fulfill their potential. 

Applying over 35 years of domain expertise, contextual intelligence and data science, Blue Yonder is helping more than 3,300 of the world’s leading manufacturers, retailers and logistics companies create more autonomous, sustainable and profitable operations. Blue yonder has a team of 5,000 professionals and offices in 40+ locations worldwide. 

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Ripple effects of the coronavirus pandemic in supply chains
• Change of customer’s behaviour 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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Dione Song is currently the Chief Commercial Officer at Love, Bonito, Dione is responsible for driving the growth and strategy of their global expansion, fundraising and overseeing the brand's performance, experience and innovation.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Growing from a team of 50 to 250 in a span of three years.
• Understanding customer’s behavior
• The strength of omnichannel approach 
• How Love, Bonito chooses their suppliers
• Using data to automate the entire fashion design process

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Lidia Yan the CEO and Co-Founder of NEXT Trucking. NEXT is venture-backed by investors including Sequoia Capital and Brookfield Ventures. In January 2019, we closed $97M in Series C funding, bringing them to $125M in total funding.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• NEXT - the APPLE of trucking
• How NEXT achieved profitability in their first year
• Rapid scaling from 100 to more than 200 employees
• How it is to be a female in a male-dominated industry
• The USD60 billion DRAYAGE market
• Work for a cause, not for applause and seek respect not attention because it lasts longer. 

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