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KEYNOTE Forging a low-risk, cost effective, and flexible global supply chain in an era of rapid change
- Discussing the future of multi-national footprint optimization: How does offshoring, near-shoring, and reshoring each contribute to the goal of maximizing performance and reducing risk?
- Developing a supply chain management strategy that is resilient enough to support your business operations through both a worldwide economic recovery and a double-dip recession
- Out with the old, in with the new? Exploring how companies are reacting to changing consumer bases
- Improving high-level partnerships with government, industry associations, suppliers, and consumers during footprint optimization
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SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGIES Case study: Driving innovation in SCM to grow a business in BRIC countries
- Why are BRIC-based operations so challenging?
- Preparing for the unexpected: Costs, regulations, finding local partners, etc.
- Learning from early trailblazers and applying their solutions to your business
- Building a corporate culture that encourages supply chain innovation and outside-the-box thinking
| TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS Panel discussion: Working with 3PLs in the United States
- Discussing how fuel surcharges work and debating the pros and cons of a flat rate
- Understanding the workforce, regulatory, and capacity challenges facing long- and short-haul freight carriers
- Exploring opportunities to reduce costs and environmental impacts through natural gas usage
- Working with 3PLs to build a proactive SC culture
Keith MelcherGlobal Transportation ManagerTexas Instruments | METRICS MANAGEMENT Case study: Big Data analysis as a true driver of business success
- What does a successfully working Big Data system look like?
- Expanding upon existing performance management and measurement programs to collect enough information for a Big Data approach
- Bringing stakeholders from every link of the value chain together to pool resources, and seek actionable information
- Cutting through the noise to identify true KPIs: What are you really trying to understand?
- Top tips to avoid being overwhelmed
| INNOVATIONS Case study: Updating warehouse tools and tactics to drive productivity
- Assessing the capabilities of your current warehouse and distribution center systems
- Identifying new tools and technologies that can bridge the gaps in legacy asset capabilities
- Training your workforce to make the best use of the equipment and methodology available to them
- Adjusting the interoperability of new and old systems based on performance metrics
- Demonstrating the ROI of the new system through improved efficiency, productivity, and reliability
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SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGIES Case study: Fast to market - SCM’s role in shortening product lifecycles in a customer-centric supply chain
- Discussing how shortened and accelerated product lifecycles have placed new demands and greater responsibilities upon supply chain executives
- Adjusting supply chain capacity in anticipation of a product launch while simultaneously supporting the retooling of plants and facilities for the next generation’s launch
- Highlighting the growing role SCM plays in innovation, technology transfers, and ramping up production from prototyping to mass market manufacturing
| TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS Update: Preparing U.S. infrastructure for the Panama Canal capacity increase
- Illustrating how the Federal Government is working with public and private partners to improve port facilities, warehousing capacities, road and rail infrastructure, and other assets in anticipation of the widened Panama Canal capabilities
- Reviewing the progress to date of the Panama Canal expansion project.
- What is the schedule for completion? How does this line up with U.S. infrastructure improvement timelines?
- Discussing next steps and how supply chain executives should prepare for a review of all their current transportation and logistics policies
Keith LesnickAssistant Administrator for Intermodal Systems U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) | METRICS MANAGEMENT Case study: Applying lean strategies to the supply chain without disrupting performance
- Identifying what changes can be implemented in a high-performance supply chain without overwhelming the system
- Defining common metrics and KPIs for lean implementation
- Showcasing some of the ways just-in-time delivery can be improved
- Translating successful pilot projects across an organization
- -How can lean programming evolve into a culture of continuous improvement?
| INNOVATIONS Attracting, retaining, and developing the next generation of SCM talent
- How are the best companies attracting top talent to SCM?
- Promoting supply chain management as an attractive career option among young people, women, and minorities
- Investing in people to improve retention and develop new skillsets
- Preserving institutional memory: Transferring skills and knowledge from one general to the next
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SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGIES Interactive workshop: Launching and updating effective S&OP policies
- Illustrating triggers that drive organizations to deploy S&OP for competitive advantage
- Reviewing case studies from consumer packaged goods and high tech manufacturers: What lessons can we learn from their experience?
- Making S&OP policies an organic and evolving playbook
| TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS Interactive workshop: Working with top-rated carriers to reduce costs through superior performance
- Building a business upon high performance rather than low upfront freight costs
- Generating real cost savings through a holistic approach to transportation execution
- Managing outbound, inbound, and third-party shipments in real-time
- Enforcing internal and external compliance across all modes to reflect true freight cost
| METRICS MANAGEMENT Interactive workshop: Demand-driven performance for inventory and operations management
- Seeking the causes of inaccurate forecasting
- Benchmarking your organization’s forecasting accuracy against business partners up and down the value chain
- Understanding the forces at play upon delivery time tables
- Mitigating these considerations to drive inventory and operations efficiency
| INNOVATIONS Interactive workshop: Transforming your organization’s transportation, warehousing, and freight forwarding strategy
- Taking a holistic approach to combine strategy, planning, and management to enhance operational execution
- Developing and acquiring skills and sharing knowledge between different links of the supply chain
- Bringing IT solutions to bear on common SC challenges
- Encouraging a culture of continuous improvement and grassroots innovation to drive long-term performance
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PANEL DISCUSSION Supply chain’s role in optimizing the footprint of worldwide operations
- Comparing the decision-making process of young companies versus established international conglomerates when it comes to new markets and global footprint optimization
- How do supply chain executives balance the workload between new and existing operations?
- Developing new expertise about regions quickly and efficiently: How do you learn the lay of the land?
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SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGIES Interactive workshop: Bringing lean efficiencies to the supply chain
- Offering tactics and technology that bring about meaningful and sustained change to your organization’s supply chain
- Targeting the bottlenecks: Identification, analysis, and solution implementation
- Showcasing SCM optimization in action based on read-world examples
| TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS Interactive workshop: Auditing transportation costs to reduce leakage and improve deliverables
- Lowering your expenses with accurate freight bills and better cost management
- Standardizing contracts among an effective and trusted carrier base
- Identifying, documenting, and recovering carrier overcharges through invoice auditing
- Transitioning from major reforms to monthly compliance monitoring of an overhauled process
- Seeking further efficiencies through benchmarking your plan against similar transportation systems
| METRICS MANAGEMENT Interactive workshop: Conquering supply chain complexity through an outsider’s perspective
- Illustrating how performance management strategies can change relationships with key clients
- Asking the question: What defines your customers’ success?
- Creating a system of external monitoring and feedback on KPIs that trigger corrective action in your own business processes to drive positive outcomes for your business partner
| INNOVATIONS Interactive workshop: Tools to optimize warehouse space
- Working with what you have: New approaches to space utilization to avoid costly facility expansions and refurbishments
- Walking through options in storage and automation solutions: What works best in different scenarios?
- Overhauling best practices to improve performance during the course of efficiency initiative rollouts
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PLENARY WORKSHOP Interactive workshop: New communication tools to harmonize supply and demand decisions
- Integrating supply chain management and sales and operations planning functions together through a cloud-based communications system
- Connecting every link of the supply chain together to share data and asset visibility in real-time to respond to emerging challenges and drive performance improvement
- Demonstrating the new tools in action based upon real-world case studies
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KEYNOTE “So there I was…” Nightmares and glory days from a supply chain troubleshooter
Using entertaining stories of the improbable but true, this keynote presentation will celebrate the modern supply chain executive as a wearer of many hats: The architect of complicated wonders; the foreman who oversees construction; the mechanic who gets dirty to keep things running; the firefighter on constant call to keep things from burning to the ground.
Punctuated with anecdotes and off the cuff opinions, this session will ask the Who-What-Where-When-Why-and-How of the supply chain troubleshooter extraordinaire:
“Who do I want to talk to when I’m looking for my next great idea?”
“What do I do when my company asks me to work my magic?”
“Where do I get the nerve to call myself an expert on any given topic in a crisis?”
“When is time worth more than money, and how do I convince my boss that now is that time?”
“Why do the complicated things always sound so simple in the beginning?”
“How do I make this look so easy?”
With a few stories that will likely strike a chord with every supply chain executive’s own experience, this final session of the day will be the perfect summary of the day’s case studies and get the conversation started for the drinks reception to follow.
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