The Greatest Reset – Driving financial results through the Supply Chain

For ages, we’ve been witnessing epidemics and crises but the rapid global phenomenon of COVID-19 and its fallout has left business sales and revenues plunge, or in some cases, zeroed with no industry being spared. As we are reviving back from the pandemic and adapting the new normal, more and more companies are competing primarily on the nimbleness of their supply chains to drive the projected revenues. Thus, The Economic Times focused closed door roundtable –The Greatest Reset: Driving financial results through the Supply Chain, will bring together the CFOs and Supply Chain heads to contemplate on the successful operational plans, the quality output for the need of proper utilization of capital on resources, opportunities and challenges in keeping the profitability of the company as many business models were made redundant by the crisis, costs management strategies.

Speakers

Amit Gupta
Director-Solution Consulting
Anaplan India

Gaurav Bhatia
Associate Director – Head Planning (South Africa)
Cipla

Jayaprakash Kalappan
CFO & Company Secretary
Panasonic Appliances India

Kaleeswaran Arunachalam
Chief Financial Officer
Eicher Motors

Kumar Subbiah
Executive Director Finance
CEAT

Lalit Malik
CFO
Dabur India

Manoj Kothari
VP & Head of Supply Chain, Godrej Africa, USA & Middle East
Godrej Consumer Products

Rajasekhara Reddy
Vice President – Global Demand Planning & Logistics
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals

Vinay Kushwaha
Chief Supply Chain officer
Britannia

Agenda

12:00 – 12:30 Registration and Login
12:30 – 14:00  The Greatest Reset: Driving financial results through the Supply Chain

 

 

 
  • Key objectives that enable cost control and enhance customer service
  • The impact of supply chain on the company’s strategic objectives?
  • What is the time lag between the development of business strategy and operational plans?
  • Managing the company’s cash flow & liquidity
  • Strategies for better productivity leading to increased revenue in challenging times

Speakers:

  • Gaurav Bhatia, Associate Director – Head Planning (South Africa), Cipla
  • Jayaprakash Kalappan, CFO & Company Secretary, Panasonic Appliances India Company
  • Kaleeswaran Arunachalam, Chief Financial Officer, Eicher Motors
  • Kumar Subbiah, Executive Director Finance, CEAT Limited
  • Lalit Malik, Chief Financial Officer, Dabur India
  • Manoj Kothari, VP & Head of Supply Chain, Godrej Africa, USA & Middle East, Godrej Consumer Products
  • Rajasekhara Reddy, Vice President – Global Demand Planning & Logistics, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals
  • Vinay Kushwaha, Chief Supply Chain officer, Britannia

Moderated by: Amit Gupta, Director – Solution Consulting, Anaplan India
Amit leads Solution Consulting for Anaplan India, helping companies adopt the new age of ‘Connected Planning’ across Sales, Finance and Supply Chain.
He has experience of over 17 yrs spanning various technology solutions for Manufacturing, Retail, Automotive and Telecom and has worked across geographies in South East Asia, India and the Middle East.
Before joining Anaplan, Amit worked with Oracle as the domain lead of planning for APAC. Amit is a postgraduate from SP Jain Mumbai.
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Self-motivated & result-oriented professional with more than a decade of industry experience across Pharmaceutical and IT consulting; known for the ability to integrate the function into the overall business strategy. Excellent rapport building capabilities teamed with exposure to various functions in Supply Chain.
Currently heading the Exports (South Africa) Supply Chain at Cipla. Has recently been awarded with “Supply Chain 40 under 40” Award & Leader in Operational Excellence for significant improvement in Demand Forecasting, coupled with improvement in Supply Security through Predictive Analytics.
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Winner of CFO100 Roll of Honour 2019 & 2020 Awards (Two consecutive years) in the category of “Cost Control & Management” and “Cash Management” & Winner of CFO Story Awards 2019 in the category of “Cost Control & Management”. He has over 20 years of rich experience in IT Industry, Service Industry and Manufacturing Industries with deep focus on financial and risk management.

Currently, he is the Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary at Panasonic Appliances India Company Limited, a Japan MNC and a Public limited company is engaging into the business of manufacture and sale of home appliances products, where he is heading the various roles in Finance, Secretarial and Legal functions. He handles the Finance, Taxation, Treasury, Pricing, Compliance, Legal & Secretarial, Business planning, Budgeting, Merger & Acquisition, Strategic Alliances and Investor Relations.

Prior to Panasonic, he was heading the Finance Team and Secretarial department in R. Stahl Private Limited, a German MNC. He was also previously worked with Lumina Datamatics, a US MNC, where he was the Financial Controller and Company Secretary.
He is a qualified Chartered Accountant (FCA), Company Secretary (FCS) and Cost Accountant (FCMA).
He is also a visiting faculty for various Educational institutions, Speaker and Examiner for the Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant and Company Secretaries institutions.

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Vinay Singh Kushwaha completed B. Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi and joined Hindustan Lever in 1986 as a management trainee. In his career of 22 years with Hindustan Lever, he did a variety of technical and supply chain roles and in different businesses and rose rapidly to the position of a Vice President. He worked in the North African business of Unilever as a Supply Chain Director for 3 years and as a Regional Vice president for the Skin care category for Asia. He was part of Unilever’s Singapore based Supply Chain Leadership team for Asia.

Before joining Britannia, Vinay worked with Dabur India where he was Executive Director-Operations responsible for India and global operations of the Company.

Vinay Singh Kushwaha joined Britannia in August 2010 and was appointed Vice President -Supply Chain effective 1st August. He was recently re-designated as Chief Supply Chain Officer.

In his current role, Vinay is responsible for manufacturing, projects and technology, planning & replenishment.

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Mr. Kumar Subbiah is the Executive Director Finance at CEAT Limited responsible for Finance,
Procurement, IT, Legal & Secretarial Functions. He has a rich and diverse experience spanning more than
25 years covering Financial and Management Accounting, Business Partnering, Procurement, M&A, Risk
Management, Taxation, Information Technology and Supply Chain.

He joined CEAT in early 2015 as the Senior Vice President – Materials & Outsourcing for CEAT Limited after
spending little over 20 years with Unilever/Hindustan Unilever where he handled various Finance &
Commercial roles in and outside India. Kumar is a B.Com Graduate from Loyola College, Chennai. He is
also a Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant with professional interests both in Finance & Supply
Chain. In his free time, he enjoys playing Flute. His other hobbies are photography and enjoys watching
Bollywood movies with the family.

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Mr. Lalit Malik is the Chief Financial Officer at Dabur India Ltd. A Finance professional with over three decades of experience in India and abroad, Lalit oversees the Accounting, Business Support, Financial Planning and Analysis, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internal audit and Tax functions at Dabur globally.

Lalit is part of the core strategic group at Dabur. As Dabur’s Joint Chief Risk Officer, he has helped the company successfully navigate the emerging risks and the several structural changes in India’s Regulatory Environment.
Prior to Dabur, he has worked with companies like Philips, Gillette, Proctor & Gamble, American Express & Moser Baer.

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Vinay Singh Kushwaha completed B. Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi and joined Hindustan Lever in 1986 as a management trainee. In his career of 22 years with Hindustan Lever, he did a variety of technical and supply chain roles and in different businesses and rose rapidly to the position of a Vice President. He worked in the North African business of Unilever as a Supply Chain Director for 3 years and as a Regional Vice president for the Skin care category for Asia. He was part of Unilever’s Singapore based Supply Chain Leadership team for Asia.

Before joining Britannia, Vinay worked with Dabur India where he was Executive Director-Operations responsible for India and global operations of the Company.

Vinay Singh Kushwaha joined Britannia in August 2010 and was appointed Vice President -Supply Chain effective 1st August. He was recently re-designated as Chief Supply Chain Officer.

In his current role, Vinay is responsible for manufacturing, projects and technology, planning & replenishment.

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