WEBINAR
Supply Chain Talk: Building and Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain
June 29, 2022
Shippers
Retail
Manufacturing
Sustainability remains a focal point on supply chain agendas worldwide. Yet, the expectations and increased pressure to achieve sustainability vary.
On the 29th June, Shippeo's CPO, Anand Medepalli, joined a panel of industry experts on Supply Chain Talk - the UK’s premier supply chain talk show by Business Reporter to have a thought-provoking conversation with top minds in the industry on their sustainability journey.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS WEBINAR:
- Working to improve the environmental footprint of the supply chains and cutting greenhouse gas emissions
- The challenges and opportunities companies face when implementing sustainability measures
- How to build a more ethical and sustainable supply chain through procurement
- How sustainability can be achieved with supply chain visibility
THIS WEBINAR WILL BENEFIT:
- CSCO's, VPs/GMs of Supply Chain, Heads of Procurement & Sustainability to optimise their supply chains and make them more sustainable.

Anand Medepalli
Chief Product Officer - Shippeo
Anand leads the product organization at Shippeo and is responsible for its product and platform strategy. He has over 25 years of experience as a trusted advisor with leading companies in product strategies, commercial account strategies, and asset planning decisions in supply chain, transportation, travel, hospitality and financial services. He has spent much of his career building products and has been in leadership roles in Product Management for over 15 years. Before Shippeo, Anand was Head of AI Solutions at ServiceNow, following the acquisition of Element AI, where he was Head of Products. Previous to this experience, Anand worked for several years at Blue Yonder, as the VP of Retail Planning products and also as a Chief Product Officer at RateGain, a Travel big data company.

Dan Withers
Head of Procurement - Supply Chain and Logistics - Sainsbury's
As Head of Procurement - Supply Chain and Logistics at Sainsbury’s, the UK's second largest supermarket chain, Dan is responsible for leading commercial activities in the supply chain and logistics function. He manages a small, dynamic team and a spend in the region of £1 billion a year.

Soraya Karimi- Ghovanlou
Supply Chain Director - Smithfield Foods
Soraya is an experienced Supply Chain professional who has worked within ambient, chilled and frozen manufacturing from drinks and ready meals to poultry and pork production and farming across the world. Soraya has spent the last 11 years working her way up from a Production Operator role within Britvic Soft Drinks to Supply Chain Director at Smithfield Foods at only 31 years old, becoming the only female and youngest director of the company. Soraya has implemented many out-of-the-box ideas to improve and manage worldwide distribution and cost efficiency within the supply network, maintaining high levels of service to all customers from retailers, wholesalers and traders. Soraya is an advocate for more women to progress within manufacturing and supply chain, and how everyone can achieve their potential with the correct methodology; providing support and advice for anyone looking to improve on their current career path.

Michael Brooman
Head of Supply Chain - Community Fibre Ltd.
Michael Brooman has a track record of delivering improvements in performance, wherever he has worked. He is a strategic head of supply chain with more than 11 years’ experience in senior positions across operations, supply chain and procurement. Michael has broad-based experience, across transport and logistics, construction materials, sub-contracting, IT, utilities, labour and SG&A, and has also worked in e-commerce, e-procurement and on B2B contracts. He holds a masters in mechanical engineering from the University of Southampton, and is currently studying for an MBA from Warwick Business School.
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