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Unlock Continuous Innovation

Live Webinar
Thursday, 26 August 2021
12:00 p.m. GST / 10:00 a.m. GMT+2
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Continuous change requires continuous innovation: IDC predictions and insights into Supply Chain management

Companies that are prepared for change with an innovation strategy for their supply chain are more likely to emerge as future leaders.

Most businesses have experienced disruptions in logistics, manufacturing and retail supply chains in the past year throwing a spotlight on the critical nature of supply chain management and innovation.

Continuous innovation gives businesses the speed and flexibility they need to support their next big move, plan across the enterprise, and get the most value out of the supply chain.

We’ve asked a group of regional business leaders to share their insights with you on supply chain innovation, explaining how their innovative approaches are a foundation for agility, growth and adaptability in their supply chain.

IDC analysts will give their view on the shift in organizational thinking today, why SCM and ERM applications are the fastest growing SaaS applications through to 2025, and why CIOs in the UAE believe that one of the key long term changes in a post pandemic era is the need to redesign and digitize supply chains to improve efficiency, agility, and reduce long term risk.

We invite you to join us at this event to hear from business leaders and IDC analysts and supply chain experts. The agenda will showcase some of today’s industry hot topics such as:
  • Insight into how your industry is affected by the rapid changes and fluctuations businesses are experiencing

  • A detailed look into integrated supply chain execution — business processes development and technology enablement aligned to driving a holistic approach to supply chain execution

  • Global supply chain execution strategies and the unique perspectives of risk and benefit

  • Business, organizational, and infrastructure technology priorities for each geo-graphic region

This digital event will feature a line-up of experts and top business leaders who will give their perspective into the region’s top trends and how continuous innovation is key to digitally transforming supply chain management.

Agenda

12:00  PM
Welcome and Introduction
12:05 PM
IDC Keynote: Supply Chain Management Trends in a Post Pandemic World
This session will explore the recent trends emerging in the Middle East/Africa, in light of the global pandemic, the supply chain challenges faced by organizations in the region over the past 18 months and how they evolved to meet them, as well as the innovative strategies organizations deployed to plug supply chain shortages caused by COVID-19.
12:15 PM
How DP World Unlocks Continuous Innovation to Stay Ahead of Curve
12:30 PM
Business Leaders Viewpoint: Emerging Technologies Transforming Supply Chain Management in the New Normal
Since March 2020, the pace of digital transformation has rapidly accelerated across organizations. As the pandemic focused the spotlight on supply chain gaps, how did technology pioneers innovate in the face of a new set of challenges using emerging technologies, and how have they worked with organizations in various phases of their digital transformation journeys to recover from the disruption caused by the pandemic.
01:10 PM
Q&A and Closing

Featured Speakers

Mohamed Absar

Mohamed Absar

Head of Projects and Solutions at DP World
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Mohamed Absar

Head of Projects and Solutions at DP World
Mohamed Absar has been with the DP World family for more than 20 years and during his tenure he has driven and delivered multiple strategic projects for the DP World Group. A Strong passionate leader with over 25+ years of achievement in leveraging technology, developing customer centric culture, change & business process optimization to drive organizational growth, improve performance, increase profitability and expand intellectual property.

Currently, Mr. Absar is working as Head of Projects & Solutions for DP World. He is leading a large-scale multimillion-dollar business transformation program for DP World across the ERP, Logistics, Customer Billing & Inventory Harmonization on Oracle and Customer Experience on Microsoft leveraging the best of the breed SaaS Technology products in the market.

Mr. Absar is an extremely strong advocate of the hiring the best talent and encourages innovation by empowering people focused on developing flexible, scalable, and sustainable solutions to customer and business organizational problems. He is well known for transforming business by Integrating IT with the Business objectives for maximum shareholder value. Absar is passionate for creating a value for DP World and ensuring that DP World scales to the next level of automation.

Mr. Absar has been keynote-speaker at coveted international magazine including CIOL, HANOVER MESSE etc. In addition, he is also serving as a board member for most of the new age companies and initiatives run and delivered by DP World.
Sherif Gomaa

Sherif Gomaa

Chief Product Supply Officer at Savola Foods Company
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Sherif Gomaa

Chief Product Supply Officer at Savola Foods Company
Sherif Gomaa is a Supply Chain Leader with extensive experience in building and managing supply networks to drive profitable growth and product innovation. Over the past 7 years, Sherif has led Obeikan Printing and Packaging as CEO and managed to move to new structure and turn the organization capabilities/results around. Sherif worked with the owners to create a new digital business called Obeikan Digital Solutions which he led as GM. For the last 2 years, Sherif is leading Savola Food Supply Chain as Chief Product Supply Officer designing the function and developing the organization long /short term targets and vision. Over the years, Sherif also led three Plants in three different locations including one of the biggest and most efficient plants in P&G globally. Sherif also led the design, construction, hiring, developing the organization/systems and the start-up one of the great new business startups in P&G Pakistan.

Sherif is covering 7 countries ( Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Pakistan, Dubai, Morocco and Saudi) with multi-business (Fabric & Home Care, Beauty Care, Fem Care and Baby Care), and has gained experience in all supply chain disciplines (Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Planning, Logistics).
Praveen H Nagaraj

Praveen H Nagaraj

Sr. Manager, Supply Chain at Precision Dies and Tools Manufacturing Company
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Praveen H Nagaraj

Sr. Manager, Supply Chain at Precision Dies and Tools Manufacturing Company
Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, VIT-Pune, India
Advanced Master’s Program in Management (IIM-B GDW) Diverse experience in Engineering Thermoplastics (Plastics), Packaging, B2B e-Sourcing & Procurement, Hydraulic & Pneumatic & Tyre industry, held various Mid / Senior Management positions.

Areas of expertise: Supply Chain Management, Strategic Leadership, Account Management, Customer Relationship Management, Business Development, Industrial Sales & Marketing, e-Procurement.

Engagement across various Industries & clients in Telecom, Automotive, Infrastructure, Electrical, Electronics, Healthcare, Aviation, Consumer & Services.

Shaikh Abdullah

Shaikh Abdullah

Director - IT Solutions at Juma Al Majid Group
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Shaikh Abdullah

Director - IT Solutions at Juma Al Majid Group
Master’s in Business Administration with specialization in I.T Systems.

With 20 years’ experience in ERP /CRM/SCM implementations across industry verticals like FMCG, Automotive , Contracting and Real Estate leasing etc.

Recently lead the implementation of Oracle Fusion Logistics (OTM) & IoT with full integration with Oracle ERP/SCM Applications.
Jyoti Lalchandani

Jyoti Lalchandani

Group Vice President & Regional Managing Director (META) at IDC
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Jyoti Lalchandani

Group Vice President & Regional Managing Director (META) at IDC
As Group Vice President and Regional Managing Director of IDC Middle East, Turkey and Africa, Mr. Jyoti Lalchandani is responsible for the planning, development, implementation, and coordination of IDC's market intelligence and advisory services, sales, conferences and events, go-to-market services, and office development activities in the MEA (the Middle East and Africa) region. With more than 18 years of experience in emerging EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) markets, Lalchandani has been instrumental in establishing IDC’s presence in the region through the initial expansion of the Dubai headquarters and then by spearheading the development of IDC offices in Johannesburg, Istanbul, Riyadh, Casablanca, Lagos, Nairobi and Cairo.

Starting at IDC’s CEMA (Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) headquarters in 1995 in Prague, the Czech Republic, Lalchandani served as IDC's regional consulting manager. In this role, he headed several country-based project teams in advising multinational and local IT vendors about issues related to entry strategy, competitor analysis, ROI analysis, distribution and partner evaluation, and market segmentation. He later took on the additional responsibility of overseeing the CEMA software practice, in which Lalchandani was responsible for overseeing all related research (applications, system infrastructure, and tools) and advisory work across emerging EMEA countries.

Before joining IDC, Lalchandani served on the national board of international non-profit organization AIESEC, where he managed the association's partnership agreements with leading Indian conglomerates. Lalchandani graduated from Loyola College, India, where his studies focused on strategy management and business policy. He later attended a corporate-sponsored program at MIT's Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts.
Baljeet Nagi

Baljeet Nagi

Director SCM Sales Development & Strategy MEA at Oracle
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Baljeet Nagi

Director SCM Sales Development & Strategy MEA at Oracle
Baljeet is the Director of SCM Sales Development & Strategy for Middle East Africa. She has over 20 years of experience in IT and ERP/SCM Domain. She joined Oracle in 1997 and has worked across EMEA, APAC, now MEA. She has helped Driving Digital Transformation for organizations both on-premise and SaaS across ECEMEA. Baljeet is an Accountant. Prior to joining Oracle, she was a Financial Controller of Blue Chip Companies in the UK. Baljeet holds a BSc Hons Biology (Bristol University).

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