Jeffrey Chua

Head of Procurement
Novartis

Jeffrey Chua is currently leading the Regional Procurement for Alcon (MTO, Asia), a Vision Care Division within the Novartis Group.

He joined Alcon in 2008 and has held different Strategic roles in Global Procurement and Sourcing before taking up the current role. Prior to Alcon, Jeffrey has many years of Strategic Procurement experience in Consumer Electronic and Life Science industry with MNCs such as Siemens Electronics, Panasonic & Perkin Elmer Life Science.

Jeffrey holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Management, as well as a Master of Science in Logistics, Distribution and Management from National University of Singapore.

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Focus Day

Sunday, November 6th, 2016

09:45 All-star panel: Cost vs. Responsible procurement – How can you balance between the two?

-How to balance between long term responsibility and short term cost savings

-What are the criteria to be taken into consideration whilst making the choice?

-What are the consequences of choosing one variable over the other?

-How to warrant the inevitable increase in costs with responsible procurement given the high importance of cost savings as a deliverable of the procurement function

Main Conference Day 1

Tuesday, December 6th, 2016

14:30 Panel: How can you reduce the number of suppliers you work with for a leaner supplier database?

-What criteria do you consider while reducing supplier numbers?

-Understanding the scale, maturity and capabilities of your suppliers

-How to prevent over dependency on few select suppliers?

-How can you work with your tier 1 suppliers to consolidate tier 2, 3 suppliers?

-How do you develop suppliers to meet your regional and global demands?