Fighting COVID-19 with an agile Supply Chain and certified medical equipment

How to ship billions of masks and other medical equipment from China to the World? What are the updated quality requirements for those supplies?

Borders closed, airplanes grounded, customs changes, quality challenges, bid war on the stocks.

How to ship billions of masks and other medical equipment from China to the World?

Loïc BENATTAR, VP APAC of the freight forwarder Bansard International, will share his experience and will review each step including production, supply, quality, customs and shipping.

One of the challenges of COVID19 medical supply, is related to new customs measures that further strengthen the quality control of anti-epidemic materials for export. 

To help understand the related requirements, Ryan MAO, Head of Product Certification Services, Asia Pacific, British Standards Institution (BSI Group) will deep dive into Regulation and Certification Process and will give us some insight on the efforts that are made to address the urgency of the situation.

EU PPE Regulation and CE Mark Certification Process:

• The PPE Regulation - an overview for manufacturers of PPE including those who are producing PPE for healthcare applications
• The requirements of PPE Regulation so the CE marking can be affixed and product placed on the market
• A summary of the current situation and the new guidelines for Face masks, Eye protection, Workwear, Gloves
• What BSI is doing in light of the current situation

About the Speakers

• Loïc BENATTAR, VP APAC of Bansard International

Loïc is ESSEC and Sorbonne university alumni. After leading charities during his studies, he started his career in Strategy consulting and PMO. He joined bansard in 2009 and arrived in China to lead the activities of the group in Asia.

Loic has been developing creating and setting up offices all over Asia-Pacific in the last 10 years for Bansard International (now 25 offices in 10 countries in the region, about 300 people)

He’s Board Member of Bansard international group and deeply focused on the solutions to the customer’s issues in their supply chain

• Ryan MAO, Head of Product Certification Services, Asia Pacific, British Standards Institution

Ryan currently takes the leadership in British Standards Institution (BSI) as the Head of Product Certification Services for Asia Pacific region. In this roles he takes the management for BSI Product Certification Services in the region providing support to local companies and organisations, for both their management system and products or services, in compliance with the legislative or market requirements.

Ryan joined BSI since 2014, starting from China where he was leading the Product Certification Services, and then managed the Supply Chain Services in China until end of 2019. During his services in China, Ryan was focusing on embedding standards knowledge, integrated with certification and assessment service solutions to industries, companies and organisations for compliance in the international trading.

Ryan has more than 15 Years experiences in certification, testing, audit and inspection.

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