2011 Conference Program
To inquire regarding speaking opportunities, please contact Joy Parr, Conference Producer, or telephone +1 416 214 1144
Program - Focus Day5th December 2011
USING ANALYTICS TO REDUCE COSTS, LINK PLANNING AND EXECUTION AND OPTIMIZE/BALANCE GLOBAL OPERATIONS
Attend this master-class to learn how to transform process/data into strategic assets. Find out how to:
- Properly deploy and leverage your analytics and dynamic technology for planning and execution excellence in global supply chains
- Understand best practice and align the right technology and employees with the right expertise and skill sets
- Use analytics, dynamic optimization and synchronized planning to execution technology to increase operational responsiveness and flexibility
Accelerating cash flow through effective supply chain management
Overview of strategies that unlock cash flow in the supply chain to give businesses the long-term resilience. Find out how to:
- Identify opportunities for financing that create better options for both buyer and seller
- Establish goals for Buyers and Suppliers in an improved SCF program
- Define criteria for an effective superlative SCF system for long term cash flow management
Increase profitability and productivity with true real-time supply chain visibility and collaboration
- How lack of visibility in the yards impacts the whole supply chain, inventory levels, and order cycles?
- What industry leading companies are doing to solve this challenge?
- How technology is enabling global companies to gain real time visibility to their trailers and shipments across the supply chain, reduces order cycles, increases trailer utilization, reduces labor and fuel costs?
Creating a Demand Driven Value Chain in the Food Service Industry
- Creating an integrated supply chain that enables internal cross-functional collaboration & external collaboration with distribution centers and suppliers
- Planning and managing demand and making fact-based real-time decisions to drive efficient performance of the entire supply chain
- Integrating inventory, order and shipment visibility across the supply chain, from manufacturer to distribution center to store, with POS data and marketing plans that enable the entire supply chain get aligned against “one view of demand” and provide ongoing competitive advantage
- Learn about how HAVI Global Solutions has enabled a leading synchronized supply network across the foodservice industry.
- End-to-end supply chain collaboration with vendors and customers
- Adhere to SOPs and meet customer requirements
- Learn how Ceva Logistics provides item level visibility in real-time
- Understand how changing business models in high tech services are putting new demands on supply chains
- Going beyond piece parts – how your supply chain needs to engage the enterprise solutioning engine
Lean supply chains through utilization of advancements in technology
- How advancements in technology can be utilized to drive Lean methodologies throughout Supply Chains
- Innovative applications of technology today
- Learn how Lean Supply Solutions is bringing innovation into global supply chains today
The Impact of a Globally Evolving Supply Chain
- Assessing the important of a supply chain
- The complexity of a global organization
- Supply chain as a competitive advantage
Unleashing the Power of the Rail Renaissance
- Rail-based solutions continue to gain approval among shippers and policy-makers alike. This trend reflects not only the growing challenges confronted by the traditional over-the-road alternative, but also improvements in underlying rail service levels. Come learn more about how rail can help support your supply chain in today’s marketplace.
Supply Chain Response Strategies for the Road Ahead
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- As we approach the end of 2011, most businesses agree that the road ahead is fraught with uncertainty and challenges. Increasingly demanding customers and fierce competition globally is forcing companies to introduce a record number of new products with shrinking lifecycles. Supply chains are being stretched like never before. Over this session, Puneet Saxena, VP Industry Strategies at JDA, discusses four intelligent supply chain response strategies that leading companies are deploying to offer differentiated service to their customers. Thereafter, Gurshaman Baweja, Director, Architecture & Decision Support & Supply Chain Systems at Texas Instruments (TI), discusses how TI has been evolving its supply chain to provide competitive advantage in servicing its customers. In addition to its industry-leading products, TI, ranked amongst the top 5 semiconductor manufacturing companies worldwide, has consistently been recognized as a leading-edge supply chain company in a complex manufacturing industry. This session will offer key insights and lessons learned that attendees can subsequently apply to their business environments.
BEST PRACTICES IN CONTRACTUAL RISK MANAGEMENT- A SHIPPER'S PERSPECTIVE
- Optimize the Contract Process
- Global Contract Structure
- Key Logistics Contract Issues
- Insuring Supply Chain Exposures
Robert J. Williams
Wells Fargo Insurance Services
Program - Day One6th December 2011
Dave Malenfant, Vice President – Global Supply Chain, Alcon Labs
- Impact of volatile commodity prices, labor disruptions, natural disasters and political uncertainty on supply chains
- Identifying tools and processes to allow for quick recovery and isolating customers from disruptions: standardization, flexible supply chain, postponement, and collaborative relationships with suppliers
- Building a resilient organization through the right corporate culture: communications, empowerment and vision
Yossi Sheffi
,Head of MIT's Engineering Systems Division & Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL)
,MIT School of Engineering
Leveraging Natural Gas Transportation in your Supply Chain
CUSTOMER CENTRIC SUPPLY CHAIN: BUILDING AN AGILE SUPPLY CHAIN FOCUSED UPON CUSTOMER NEEDS AND VALUE
The New Rules of Retail: Competing in the World’s Toughest Marketplace
- Driven by constantly evolving technology, globalization and a saturated marketplace, consumers now have total and instantaneous access to whatever they desire, thus creating an unprecedented level of consumer power and expectations
- The impact of these changes is so profound that all traditional strategic success factors—and the business models necessary to execute them—will become extinct
- Using profiles and case examples of industry giants, we reveal why some retailers are tremendously successful at reaching today’s increasingly elusive and demanding consumer and explain the new mandate for retailers: neurological connectivity, preemptive distribution and value chain control, all underpinned by an efficient, demand-responsive supply chain
Solving Supply Chain Issues with Two-Tier ERP
- The holy grail of an ERP implementation used to be a single system. Not anymore.
- More and more companies now deploy a two-tier ERP strategy. They get lower-cost regional solutions for subsidiaries, while maintaining their administrative ERP
- Come explore the optimal two-tier strategy that can provide your organization balanced benefits.
Plan, Source, Make, Deliver: Demand-Driven Performance
- How Plan can best integrate Source, Make and Deliver decisions for improved Supply Chain Performance
- Understanding how the many "PROBLEMS" of supply chains are the result of few CAUSES
- Leveraging demand variability and supply variability to better satisfy customer demand
How is Procter & Gamble Company addressing sustainability in the End to End (E2E) Supply Chain?
- Supplier
- Manufacturing Operations
- Physical Distribution
Implementing S& OP process in retail and distribution environment to enable effective supply chain management
- Improving internal cross functional collaboration with product suppliers
- Analyzing demand, supply and resources
- Synchronization across multiple enterprises involved with the global extended value chain
- Understanding the role of S&OP process in the current economic environment
Best practice warehouse optimization
- Removing Barriers to Warehouse Productivity
- Process Improvement in Uncertain Times
Best practices in supply chain management – how BT streamlined its own supply chain and is transforming that of its customers
- Establishing end-to-end visibility across global supply chains to mitigate risk and deliver better customer service
- Leveraging technology to deliver operational efficiency
- Eliminating waste & reducing the organisation’s carbon footprint
Aligning Supply Chain Strategy to Specific Value Streams
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- Embracing value stream management and demand segmentation to outperform competitors, optimize inventory and improve service levels
- Leveraging value stream management to remain customer centric and align execution with strategy
- Aligning the supply chain strategy to specific value steams in order to create satisfied customers and optimize inventory
Integrated Business Planning - a needed change
- Understanding the Proven Path and its use in the change management process
- Cascading education throughout an organization with buy-in from all levels
- Embarking on a journey to Business Excellence and the benefits
SUPPLY CHAIN LEADERSHIP: IDENTIFYING APPROACHES TO LEADERSHIP THAT CAN TRANSFORM THE SUPPLY CHAIN TO NEW LEVELS OF EXCELLENCE
- Building the essential elements of supply chain leadership
- Setting the vision and strategy with right operational direction
- Prioritizing the improvement initiatives and determining the next level of efficiency
- Optimizing talents across the total supply chain
DRIVING YOUR SUPPLIERS INTO SUSTAINABILITY: HOW TO DEVELOP CRITERIA FOR SUSTAINABLE SOURCING?
- What does broad scale sustainability really entail?
- Working with suppliers on sustainability plans that span the entire supply chain
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- Visibility from manufacturing through distribution centers to an end customer
- Understanding the total end-to-end supply-chain cost
- Is achieving real- time visibility of inventory possible with so many parties involved?
- Facilitating real-time, cross-network information sharing and decision making
Sponsored by Joplin Regional Partnership
Program - Day Two7th December 2011
Dave Malenfant, Vice President – Global Supply Chain, Alcon Labs
- Introducing customer-centric approach along each stage in the customer lifecycle
- Revamping products, tools, channels and corporate culture on a global level
- Getting lean on energy: what features & products provide savings in energy costs?
- Lessons learnt so far from investing in hydrogen fuel cells and wind & solar power
- Practical tips on greening your DC: how to develop a culture of green innovation?
What is your Transportation Spend Data Telling You?
How the advancement of technology in systems is leading to more improved global supply chain and cost reduction
- Challenges in the global market place
- Traditional Business Intelligence/Reporting approaches
- Leveraging today’s technologies
- Real world examples of practical and high ROI applications
The final stage of Gartner's S&OP matrix is extending your S&OP process beyond your companies four walls and including your strategic suppliers and customers
- John Galt will present a tactical approach for assessing whether a supplier or customer is a good fit based on the latest cutting edge research from MIT - Zaragoza.
- We will present strategies for selecting and measuring the effectiveness of a successful collaboration partner
- If you attend you will leave armed with steps for bringing suppliers and customers into your S&OP process.
Kai Trepte
Co-Founder of John Galt Solutions, Inc. & PhD Candidate in MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program
Evolution of Automation Storage & Retrieval Technology
- Understanding how Cranes, Mini-Loads and Carousels have brought about the evolution of AS/RS to include the use of shuttle technology. Shuttle solutions validate the practicality of automating a “goods-to-person” solution through labor reduction, smaller footprints, “green energy” policies, higher accuracy rates, etc
- Applying wireless technology, software and advanced mechanical engineering to un-tether the shuttle, resulting in a game changing shift in the performance, reliability and flexibility of “goods-to-person” shuttle solutions.
- How can we apply shuttle technology to unlock further automated materials handling applications: returns handling, order buffering, shipping sequencing, and “all-in” automated material hand integration?
SUPPLY CHAIN EXCELLENCE: HOW TO MANAGE COSTS WITHOUT COMPROMISING QUALITY OF SERVICE IN YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN
- Identifying the real cost drivers in your supply chain
- Reducing process and data inefficiencies that result in high manufacturing and logistics costs
- How to unlock the frozen value hidden in the supply chain?
S&OP as an enabler of flexibility and agility in a Global organization
Supply Chain complexity has risen in multiples. This subsequently has resulted in loss of control and
visibility which in turn led to the competition of demand-supply networks with each other rather than
amongst individual enterprises. S&OP-IBP are key process areas for companies to enable cross-functional and
multi-enterprise visibility at the planning level.
- Flexibility of processes in terms of being able to respond quickly to market events and manage risks is critical in today's S&OP processes
- Overall lead-time reduction resulting in increased agility is a similar but essentially different initiative that companies need to undertake
- We will explore in this workshop how do companies enable flexibility as well as agility in a global environment
Best practices in end to end supply chain transformation
The session will talk to the factors and behaviors that characterize the leaders and how are they going about their transformation
Roddy Martin
SVP Global Supply Chain & Manufacturing Transformation
CCI Best Practice Research, & Consulting
HOW TO LOWER YOUR FREIGHT SPEND – CONSIDERABLY
- Change how you rate your Less-than-Truckload for extreme savings
- Learn how RateLinx is bringing their clients seven-figure savings
Enhancing Supply Chain Visibility through Process Intelligence
- Measure Supply Chain Processes and outcomes for value, velocity, volume, quality and risk to understand your current supply chain health
- Obtain end to end supply chain visibility by initially focusing on tangible, smaller portions of the supply chain
- Changing the focus of the organization from managing a supply chain process to managing the outcomes of a supply chain process
Automating The Conventional – Optimizing your existing space
- Do you really need to expand that existing warehouse? This speaker suggests that 50% of all facility expansions are most likely unnecessary. In this interactive session we will touch on solution/examples for how to enhancing existing space utilization and efficiencies within facilities through the application of automated point solutions
Benefit from additional networking and in-depth discussion on a topic of particular interest to you - join an informal topical discussion hosted over a networking lunch. Look out for sign-up sheets at the event so you can select which table you want to join. Topics for you to share knowledge and best practice will be led by:
Applying Intelligent Commerce Solutions in Volatile Global Markets
The Green Option: How Intermodal shipments reduce your overall carbon footprint.
International Supply Chain Visibility
Emerging Trends within the 3PL Industry
Collaborative Logistics
Inbound Logistics: Performance Incentives & Real-Time KPI’s
Are You Prepared for Supply Chain Disruptions?
Logistics of Disaster Recovery. Share practices and ideas on how to recover from large scale disaster, expectations for community and agency support and how companies can help communities.
Multi-enterprise S&OP: Creating Innovative S&OP Processes for Complex Supply Chains
The Added Value of Short Line Railroad Partnerships
The Hybrid Transportation Services Provider
- The rise of the asset-based logistics service provider brings a new type of partner to your domestic Supply Chain operations. Does guaranteed capacity trump lowest-rate price shopping?
Customs Compliance in your Supply Chain
One Network Enterprises: Cloud Computing and Menlo Worldwide
In this session, Menlo Worldwide discusses:
- The Business Case for ONE Cloud Computing Solutions
- The Business Challenges Faced by the US Department of Defense (DoD)
- The DoD Program Results Delivered by Menlo-ONE Solutions Team
- The Road Ahead for the Menlo-ONE Partnership
WORKSHOP: INTRODUCING BUSINESS INNOVATION RELATED TO GREEN DEMAND
Panel debate: Impact of Panama Canal’s extension on international trade routes
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- Increasing the overall volume of the traffic on the waterway
- Analyzing impact on the infrastructure & warehousing around ports in the U.S.
- Discussing competition between ports for larger ships
Roddy Martin
SVP Global Supply Chain & Manufacturing Transformation
CCI Best Practice Research, & Consulting
Mitigating Risk + Driving Operational Performance = Supply Chain Value
Interactive workshop led by Crowe Horwath LLP
- Identifying ways to incorporate performance improvement into risk mitigation practices
- Finding opportunities to demonstrate tangible results and returns on investments in risk mitigation
- Discuss the potential to leverage resources, spend and organizational efforts
- Highlight why these are not mutually exclusive initiatives
- Identifying sustainable processes that improve your bottom line
- Best strategies for reducing your carbon emissions, energy & water consumption, fuel expenditure and solid/liquid waste
- Integrating people, processes and technology
Optimizing Supply Chain Performance Through Better Working Capital Management
- The importance of Working Capital performance in sustainable Supply Chain improvements
- Common challenges to implementing Working Capital and Supply Chain improvements
- Methodologies to improve Supply Chain Responsiveness and to optimize Inventories
A Strategic Approach to Value Chain Transformation: A Case Study
- Assessing Business Imperatives
- Setting Quantitative Goals Based on the Performance of Benchmark Companies
- Defining Transformation Strategies & Programs
- Execution and Results
CREATING SMART SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT TO REDUCE RISK OF DISRUPTIONS IN YOUR SUPPLY CHAINS
- Identifying suppliers who are critical to your organization- How important are you for them?
- Creating environment & infrastructure that can facilitate real partnership
- Monitoring your supplier network from both financial and operational perspective
What will your consumer value chain need to look like to be competitive in 2020? Find out in this session that will feature thought-provoking findings of the Consumer Goods Forum Future Value Chain 2020 Initiative, a study based on input and insights gathered from more than 200 senior retail and CPG manufacturer leaders across the globe. Attendees will hear about the 12 global mega-trends identified by the study that are likely to have significant impacts across the future CPG value chain in the areas of technology, changing demographics, sustainability and government regulations. During this session, you will gain insights and strategies for effectively prospering in the changing consumer value chain of the future.
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