It gave us a great pleasure that OPEX and Symbios managed to organize its first Supply Chain Conference. As part of our social commitment to Youth; we were keen to bring the top companies in this field recognized by international audit organizations as Gartner such as Unilever Meshreq and Schneider Electric ranked 1st and 16 respectively. 

We would like to thank our Key Speakers; who enriched the conference with their experiences and openness to the audience questions, making it an effective learning experience to our audience.

Also, we felt honored by our sponsors’ confidence in Symbios and OPEX organizing this conference and their active participation by the teams of Oracle, KAPCI and LUCRAM. We had the privilege that among our audience were key figures and top experts in their fields as LEONI, Egypt Foods, Union Air , Electorlux and Al Araby Group just to name a few. Our youth participants showed great desire to engage and understand how these big companies operate a complex yet efficient full integrated supply chain systems.

The conference was well received and we are keen to further improve our pre-registration process and manage sessions more efficiently in the future to meet all participants’ needs.  

We’ve enjoyed the strong beginning made by Eng. Sameh Sabry , Unilever giving us insights on Supply Chain in FMCG and their “Make to Stock” approach, while Eng. Mohamed Saied presented Oracle as Enable of tools required to make supply chain live and adopting digital or technological advances using Internet of things , increasing visibility of data for quick decision Making. Eng. Sameh El Gabary and Ms. Nermine Abou Helwa tackled Supply Chain from “Make to Engineering” approach which showed a high level of complexity, insights of Schneider Supply chain Model, sourcing strategy and supplier performance management.  Eng. Mohamed Nassef presented LEONI wiring system Supply Chain Management which has a special unique nature of being No 1 in automotive industry and run Make to Order supply chain efficiently as all its production is addressed to foreign markets.

We’ve ended our day with a short yet very enlighten session by Dr. Aly Awni on Socially Responsible Supply chain, showing the difference between doing charitable activity and running an effective sustainable development role. He presented several successful cases run by companies as Unilever, Danone etc.. That enabled less privileged people opportunity to work and generate income for themselves as distributors or suppliers to these companies. Important lessons were discussed and I personally benefited from and enjoyed and encourage all our society members to check our website for the full presentation and looking forward to your active participation in our coming events. Finally thanks to Symbios team and our youth volunteers for all the hard work made in preparation and during the day to make every guest welcomed and enjoying the experience.