Supply Chain Conference 2024:

Venue: Coming soon

Dates: To be confirmed

Speakers: to be announced.

Target Audience: Supply Chain Practitioners, Stakeholders and Affiliates who influence or are influenced by the Supply Chain profession being professionals, vendors, customers, decision makers in business and academia not forgetting policy makers in government.

We are expecting over many participants from across different industries and will have speakers, special guests and stakeholders from the business sector, academia and government.

Supply Chain Conference 2019:

In line with our Credo to Connect, Learn and Inspire, we are hosting the second annual gathering of Supply Chain Professionals in a Conference on the theme “A Resilient Supply Chain in a Competitive Global Market: The Role of the Practitioner”.

The Chairperson for the conference was Mr Ebo Hammond (President, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport-Ghana). The Key note address was given by Madam Adjoa Safo (the Minister of Procurement). Speakers for the conference were

  • Benny Atta-Dolphyne (Seafreight Logistics Solutions Mgr, Bollore Transport & Logistics Gh)
  • Farouk Sai (Supply Chain Director, The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Ghana)
  • Evelyn Sam (Chief Supply Chain Officer, AirtelTigo)
  • Doris Afanyedey (General Manager, Cummins Ghana Limited)
  • Frank Mante (Acting CEO, Public Procurement Authority)

The aim of the conference was to explore the forces shaping our industry in the region with particular focus on competing with the international markets amidst the rising impact of worldwide Political and Socio-economic factors, sustainability concerns, Big Data applications and Smart Technologies. It helped practitioners and students in attendance to explore ways in which a resilient supply chain can deliver improvements to Ghanaian businesses and the Ghanaian economy as a whole.

In addition to the speaking sessions, the day’s activities have been design to offer opportunities for individual participation through interactive question-and-answer time, break-out sessions to find multi-industry solutions to the conference case study and many opportunities for networking and business relationship building.

We were supported by a number of corporate and media sponsors who, along with the participants and stakeholders were impressed by the organization, patronage and success of the event that brought many supply chain professionals together.

Photos from the conference can be found here:

SCC leadership paid visits to some of the Speakers/Guests/Sponsors. Photos from this visit can be found here.

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Supply Chain Conference 2018:

The maiden Supply Chains Connect (SCC) Conference was held on 7th December, 2018 at the Sunlodge Hotel, Accra and saw over 150 participants from Ghana, the UK and Sierra Leone. The participants were stakeholders, influencers and professionals at different stages of their career in the various supply chain professions in charge of logistics, inventory, manufacturing, procurement, customer service, health and safety, warehousing, distribution, transport etc., representing about 20 different industries.

The Chairperson for the event was the Country Manager of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) Ghana, Mrs. Stella Addo. Additionally, we had seasoned speakers who spoke on various topics shown below:

Speaker

Title

Topic
Mr. Cosmos Bondzie General Manager at Super Shipping Service, Ghana The Role of Supply Chain & Logistics in the Shipping Industry
Major Eunice Koranteng Assistant Director Supplies and Transport in charge of Training and Organisations at the Ghana Armed Forces Women’s Excellence in Supply chain Management
Mr. Felix Bani Site Leader for the Cummins West Africa Regional Distribution Center (RDC) The Mindset of a Supply Chain Problem Solver
Mr. Eric Essah Sales consultant with Forms Broadcast, subsidiary of Lifeforms Group Supply Chain vs. Commercial- A Revolutionary Thinking
Mr. Samuel Akrofi Procurement Manager for Stanbic Bank Ghana Overview of Supply Chain in the Banking Sector

Also, we had special guests present that included the Supply Chain Director of Coca Cola, Mr. Farouk Sai and the Dean-Director Empower School of Health, Professor Paul Lalvani among others.

We were supported by a number of corporate and media sponsors who, along with the participants and stakeholders were impressed by the organization, patronage and success of the event, especially being that it was the first event of its kind bring all supply chain professionals together. Media reportage on the event can be found on at www.ghanaweb.com under the Business News of 8th December 2018.

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