Session 1 COVID-19 Crisis - Second Series of Webinars
Tuesday, June 16 9 am PT, 12 noon ET, 17:00 UK, 18:00 CE
We are delighted to confirm three business leaders, all facing and addressing different economic and business situations and responses to the crisis, and all are experienced Oracle Users and IT professionals.
Munchkin Inc., a California based consumer products manufacturer & distributor, with on-line and large retail store sales channels, customers in Americas, Europe, and Asia, and a China impacted international supply chain. IT Director: Balacz Francisci
GE Healthcare – Imaging Business Unit; international production facilities and worldwide supply chain and sales distribution network, covering Europe, Asia, Lat Am and Africa. Key production facilities in China, Korea, and Europe. IT Director: Nanda Kuma Rajagopal
Ciena, a Baltimore based high-tech network systems manufacturer, with international MFG sites and distribution to Europe, North America, and Asia. Ciena has seen spiked demand and challenging distribution pressures demand quick adaptations in their business operations. Senior Director: Kunal Kumar
Immi, Midwestern manufacturing company supplying the commercial automotive industry, employing a local industrial workforce., also with China supply chain impact. IT Director: Apparao Kandru
The panel also will be joined by Hans Kolbe, president of Celantra Systems and chairperson of the multi-national Special Interest Group. Moderator will be David Norris, London, a Chartered Accountant and experienced leader in business and system transformations.
While we were preparing for this update, discussing the changes with panelists, colleagues and customers, it was very interesting to see how the crisis had impacted everyone differently, and how everyone had evolved quite a bit, already, from their initial assessments in February. While, fortunately, nobody was in a position as extreme as are the airlines or car rental companies, almost everybody has something different to relate.
· Hear how sales forecasts have changed since the beginning of the year, and how our panelists have had to manage to those changes, from medical gear, to home food deliveries, to consumer networking and commitments driven by classroom schedules.
· And as demand changed and as COVID hit the supply side, hear how thinking about the supply chain went one way and then another, and now, how we need to future-proof our input planning.
· And understand a little what COVID has done to services labor force, including the IT service force. Who is doing what about major projects, and who is doing smaller projects? Foundational project? Did you know that the California Highway people (CalTrans) closed the access road from 101 to the Bay Bridge in San Francisco (the "other" big bridge in the City, leads back East to the rest of America) and resurfaced the deck, while the traffic was light.
Join us on Tuesday, June 16th, and hear how the people at GE Healthcare, Munchkin, and Ciena are dealing with our transition three months in.
