Speakers

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Supply chain as a function of a total business strategy

• How is your business strategy influenced by the supply chain?
• Understanding the contribution that supply chain can make to the success of the overall business goals
• Using the right mix of lean, agile and green supply chain principles to meet the strategic objectives of your organisation

Ensuring the concept of sustainability objectives are embraced within the supply chain team

• Highlighting change management and procurement as two cornerstones of your strategy
• Monitoring your supplier network - Are your suppliers operating in a sustainable manner?
• Understanding the trade-offs among cost, profitability and sustainability in your supply chain
• Analysing energy efficiency in the supply chain

Supply chain management as a foundation for growth in Eastern Europe

• KOTÁNYI’s supply chain strategy across 21 east and south-eastern European countries
• Enabling expansion in new markets, while optimising costs, reducing inventory and improving customer service 

How do you measure your readiness for sustainable continuous integrative supply chain & business performance improvement?

This workshop will:

• Help attendees assess their organisation’s readiness, capabilities, gaps, and change leadership requirements in their current transformation programmes
• Discuss how to deploy a sustainable management framework for continued world class business results
• Focus on best practices from a survey of 30 Fortune 500 companies to provide industry benchmark comparisons

Global inventory management - Strategy, design and execution: Flexibility amidst constant change

Global end-to-end visibility is key to providing best in class service and inventory performance across a global multi-echelon distribution network, yet many companies lack this total visibility due to disparate systems, often as the result of acquisitions and global growth. This workshop will discuss:

• How Caterpillar Logistics approaches optimising inventory and maximising parts availability for Caterpillar and it's third party logistics customers
• The role technology plays in delivering market leading performance. 
• Have you made the right investment in people, technology and processes to maximise the profitability of your aftermarket? 
• Do you have global end-to-end visibility across your distribution network? 
• Have you invested heavily in an inventory software package which is not delivering market leading parts availability and inventory performance?

Development in the supply chain modelThe workshop will focus on and discuss:

• The entire suite of Supply Chain solutions offered at BNP Paribas, including receivables, payables and inventory, with a review of developments over the last few years and prognosis for the future
• BNP Paribas' new Connexis Supply Chain ("CSC")  - a web based platform for receivables and payables programmes which is designed to manage the data exchange, email alert to suppliers and buyers, calculation of discount amount and  repayment. In addition multibanking facilities are available on the platform. The inventory solutions are managed outside of the CSC platform.

Improving your global supply chain efficiency - building collaborative partnerships

• Through centrailsed planning learn how to create an efficient and agile low cost suppy chain by partnering with experienced 4PLs
• A one stop shop for effective supply chain and logistical requirements
• Choosing the right 4PL to integrate your supply chain operations

Supply chain financing: Creating a win-win for buyers and suppliers

John McQuiston, Director and London Region Head of Supply Chain Finance at Wells Fargo Capital Finance will discuss:

• How finance executives perceive the benefits of supplier and buyer financing programs
• The internal corporate dynamics between the treasury and procurement divisions: how do you sell SCF internally?
• The external dynamics between buyers and suppliers: how do you get on-board suppliers effectively?
• Basel III, the SCF lending market, and the role of syndication

Easy control of your supply chain processes based on your SAP ERP data

Reflecting on a customer case study presented by HELLA KGaA Hueck & Co, Every Angle will be presented as an out-of-the-box SAP ERP add-on to:

• Get information out of SAP ERP, fast, flexible and user friendly
• Improve transparency on operational business processes
• Optimise supply chain performance
• Increase of SAP ERP data quality (master data & order pollution)

The case study will show the results & benefits of the Every Angle implementation from both an IT and business perspective.

• Supply chain visibility within one day, based on a SAP ERP system
• How to measure & improve data quality
• Improving service level and reducing stock level simultaneously

Advanced sales & operations planning

• Understand how to manage the “gap” between the current plan and the annual operating plan
• Analyse and view data through multiple lens’ and to cope with a regional/global matrix process
• Administer the S&OP process itself using workflow, exceptions and audit trails
• Identify performance gaps early to ensure optimal profitability
• Learn appropriate aggregation which underpins the process of timely decision making
• Importance of enabling accountability through transparent impact analysis and providing a “corporate memory”
• Supporting adoption through familiarity and ease of use 

Managing trade compliance risk in today’s global supply chains

As today’s global supply chains extend and become more complex, risk assessment becomes an increasingly important subject. Trade compliance risk effecting the movement of goods is of particular concern. This session will look at how an international company can manage, automate and assess its international trade compliance. A specific example relating to import compliance for Brazil will be discussed during this session.

• Managing international trade compliance
• How automation can help trade compliance 
• The role of trade compliance in sourcing, execution and audit

Oracle’s Sun value chain transformation 

Globalisation and lean operations have changed the way companies operate, which is why many are looking to their supply chain to drive greater efficiency and cost savings.  However, transforming an enterprise-level supply chain is a complex and hazardous task, requiring full visibility of not just the benefits, but also the risks and compliance issues. This is exactly what happened when Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010. 

In this presentation Ronnie Kirkpatrick will discuss:

• The leadership strategies and software solutions deployed to re-engineer Sun’s supply chain
• Transforming the operation from “build-to-stock” to 100% “make-to-order”
• How strong executive commitment to direction, timelines, and minimal customisations helped enable the extreme transformation of Sun’s supply chain in just 12 months

Advanced sales & operations planning

• Understand how to manage the “gap” between the current plan and the annual operating plan.
• Analyse andview data through multiple lens’ and to cope with a regional/global matrix process
• Administer the S&OP process itself using workflow, exceptions and audit trails
• Identify performance gaps early to ensure optimal profitability
• Learn appropriate aggregation which underpins the process of timely decision making
• Importance of enabling accountability through transparent impact analysis and providing a “corporate memory”
• Supporting adoption through familiarity and ease of use

Adding supply chain finance solutions to (Accounts Payable) shared service centers and procurement hubs

In this workshop Deutsche Bank will show how corporates can add even more value to their SCC and procurement hubs by adding supply chain finance solutions.

In this session:

• Leverage the benefits of AP SSC and procurement hubs
• Improve working capital 
• Increase transparency 
• Benefit from standardised processes and fast roll out

Logi[sti]cal project support

SIEPA – Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency is a first class public agency whose goal is your success. Our job is to help you find the ideal business solution in Serbia and to enhance your performance by assisting you in making the most of our tools and of the grants and the incentives offered to investors. The list of our clients include Fiat, Michelin, Bosch, Cooper Tires, Continental, Norma Group, Grammer, Dräxlmaier, and many more.

• Find out how to maximise the performance of investment projects by using logistical support from SIEPA
• How investors saved money investing in Serbia – “New Logistical Hub of Europe”

How to set up and manage successful supply chain finance

•Implementing a supply chain finance program - Setting the stage 

•Defining all the processes for success - Goals for buyers vs. suppliers

•Ability to adapt becomes critical - Avoiding bottlenecks through a multi-banking approach

•Looking beyond small and regional programs - Flexibility as the way forward

•Ongoing optimisation of supply chain finance programs - Adopting a total roadmap

Agile supply chain – LSP perspectives

The agile supply chain can be viewed from many perspectives. Those perspectives reveal conflicting aspects that an LSP needs to take into consideration, depending on the customer relationship at hand. Typically in a 3PL relationship, agility (from the customer standpoint) requires a rigid, reliable network, that can handle the agility (flexibility) of the customer’s supply chain. Whereas in a 4PL relationship the LSP must offer a flexible (agile) solution that fits in the customer’s agile supply chain. State of the Art Information Technology can resolve this dilemma for an LSP that plays in both worlds.

• Schenker AG – Company overview
• Agile supply chain – LSP perspectives
• SIMBA project   
• Conclusion / Q&A  

Executive education - Driving value, alignment and sustainability across your supply chain

• Master this multidisciplinary role through innovative strategies and problem solving
• Implement tools to align core processes resulting in operational excellence
• Understand frameworks to manage risks and opportunities

From S&OP to integrated business planning – A technology vendor view

Join the TXT experts to hear the latest in S&OP and discover the opportunities this approach can generate:

• The evolution of S&OP to integrated business planning: financial planning and budgeting as part of the process
• Fact-based decision making, risk management and orchestration: key opportunities of IBP
• Examples from the leaders & tangible benefits
• The enabling role of IT

Content to be confirmed

• Supply chain management
• Outsourcing
• Control tower
• Logistics concept

Discover the value of dynamic vehicle routing and load building. International cases, great results

There can be many roadblocks on the way to a robust and optimised plan. With advanced dynamic routing and load building solutions, many of these roadblocks can now be tackled. In this workshop:

• Explore the most important planning roadblocks (including traffic jam issues) and see the real-time planning and optimisation solutions listed next to international cases with great results 
• How these companies all realised millions in savings, developed new services and increased their service levels
• Vehicle routing and load building opportunities
• Real-time advanced planning and optimisation solutions
• Shipper and carrier cases with both proven cost and CO2 savings, combined with higher service levels 

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Two-Tier ERP deployment of Microsoft Dynamics AX: Boost agility and supply chain visibility across the enterprise

• Integrate and optimise supply chain operations: the benefits of Two-Tier ERP deployment
• The Microsoft Dynamics AX and Avanade advantage for global enterprises in tackling their current supply chain challenges

Mastering the competitive demand for command and control of upstream visibility

With global supply chains becoming more complex, lead times blowing out and landing costs increasing, the pressure is on to better understand performance of individual nodes in inbound supply chains, reduce per unit cost, and increase market competitiveness. This “need to see more” has fuelled demand for comprehensive upstream visibility. For procurement and inbound logistics managers visibility and control over every stage in the life-cycle of a purchase order have become a competitive necessity.

In this session delegates will learn how to achieve both tactical as well as strategic visibility to the planning and management of international purchase order execution.

SAP innovations in supply chain management 

Collaborative planning forecast and replenishment

In this presentation Martin McKie will showcase how Motorola are defining and implementing successful strategies for their customers and suppliers.

Ensuring stability and agility in your supply chain through effective collaboration 

• How does the industry feel about collaboration and how much collaboration is actually happening?
• Collaboration for constant validation of your supply chain strategy
• Open communication as a facilitator of effective collaboration
• Using collaboration to improve quick market responsiveness

Green logistics: Driving towards a carbon efficient industry

• Can alternative modes compete with road & air transport in terms of costs, time and reliability?
• Optimizing distribution networks to achieve carbon reduction
• Managing load capacities and routes more efficiently
• How can carbon pricing mechanisms accelerate trends towards more sustainable solutions?

 Implementing advanced S&OP in a global company: Aligning layers through advanced S&OP

  

• Achieving excellence in S&OP: success depends on key principles, KPIs, and common understanding of all the stakeholders in the organisation
• Exploring strategies used for successful advanced S&OP implementation across all departments 
• Integrated business planning: getting sales, marketing, operations and finance
  working toward the same KPIs 
• Measuring the success of advanced S&OP implementation 

Collaboration Concepts for Co-modality



The CO3 (Collaboration Concepts for Co-modality) project is aimed at addressing horizontal collaboration. Companies who collaborate and bundle their logistic flows can achieve dramatic benefits on economic, social and environmental levels. Up to now, shippers who want to collaborate in this way are too often hindered by practical (both operational and legal) obstacles in their way.

It is one of the goals of “Collaborative Concepts for Co-Modality (CO³)” to eliminate these obstacles.

Driving continuous improvement in forecasting

• Analyzing information from POS for constant validation of demand
• Identifying barriers limiting the value of your forecasts

• Developing an integrated framework for a responsive supply chain by understanding your market
• Creating capacity to adjust supply chain infrastructure and support unexpected changes in demand
• Leveraging flexible distribution networks

• Analysing the financial impact of talent management programmes on the business
• Designing talent management value add into the strategic plan – determining value upstream
• Managing stakeholder expectations – business and process integration for results
• Creating metrics that matter to drive talent management decisions

• Choosing new supply chain set ups in emerging markets - Why the “lift & shift” approach doesn’t work?
• Aligning the supply chain with the business strategies
• Matching the maturity curve to the market

Executing supply chain strategy as key to improving efficiencies in e-commerce

• While many companies do a great job focusing on supply chain strategies to institute efficiencies into their processes, many fail in the execution of that strategy
• How proper execution can yield significant efficiencies and cost savings
• Formally instituting and maintaining standard processes to make dramatic efficiency gains
• Ensuring information visibility for inventories, demand planning, capacity planning to all members of the supply chain
• Setting the right expectations with employees and customers

Strategic approaches in transforming supply networks

With a focus on strategic approaches to transforming global supply networks in volatile times, this interactive workshop will address specific challenges such as:

• Leveraging competing value chains
• Gaining enterprise visibility and control across an extended business
• The role of postponement strategies in serving specific market needs

The myth of the one-number plan

For some time, there has been a movement to drive the entire organisation from a single operating number, usually the budget. In theory that is a good thing, as long as you have the right number. The budget is what the company wants or wishes to happen; very seldom is it what is going to happen. For that matter, so is the sales forecast. Learn how range planning can reduce risks and breed a more profitable operation by working on the premise that being ‘roughly right’ is far better than being ‘precisely wrong’.

Finding value in value streams: opportunities and challenges

This workshop pushes at weaknesses in value stream thinking by senior directors. Experiences are drawn from the pursuit of business imperatives in premium drink, pharmaceuticals, medical technology, distribution and private equity due diligence.

• What are the trade-offs between capacity optimisation versus velocity reduction?
• Which are the tipping points for creating level flow versus aggressive campaigning and what does this mean for PFEP/EPE*
• Capacity is cost and yet capacity is elastic? What are the optimisation platforms for conversion costs and logistics costs?
• How does one meaningfully pursue inventory and other asset rightsizing?
• How would one create a strategic roadmap for finding value in value streams?

Using supply chain design technology to engineer a competitive advantage

What is the limit to how well your existing supply chain can perform? How much can IT planning systems and multi-million dollar ERP applications really optimise your operations? The answer may surprise you, and not in a good way. The reality is a supply chain’s true potential is set by its design.

• Hear how to use “Supply Chain Design” as a means to compete and win
• Learn how to engineer the supply chain across a range of metrics including cost, service, structure, sustainability, and risk 
• Get a first-hand account of how to design a more cost effective post-acquisition supply chain
• Discuss best practices and lessons learned for successful deployment of supply chain design technology

Closing the gaps in shipping with automated multi-carrier TMSCompanies across various industry sectors have unique transportation challenges which drive them to use multiple systems and applications that incur heavy integration costs. In this interactive session you will:

• Understand how to remove complexity in multi-carrier, multi-modal shipping from within your ERP landscape
• Improve operation KPIs across your enterprise
• Learn how to leverage your ERP investment and gain a positive ROI.
• How to improve operational efficiencies - Real time freight shopping, single click carrier compliant shipping process (Parcel, LTL/TL), track and trace from within your ERP, and compliant import/export documentation