| Day Two9th June 2010 |
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| 08:30 |
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Networking and refreshments |
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| 08:55 |
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Chairperson’s welcome and re-cap of day one |
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| 09:00 |
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Ensuring visibility across the extended supply chain to emerge stronger from the downturn |
- Supply chain visibility as key to taking your business through the next steps after the recession
- Optimising visibility levels through profitable proximity sourcing - do we bring sourcing to nearer locations?
- Maximising transparency across inventory management to balance costs and service levels
Pierfrancesco Manenti,
Research Director - EMEA,
IDC Manufacturing Insights
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| 09:35 |
| Interactive workshop |
| Workshop led by IHS |
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Working with your 3PLs to drive collaborative efforts and minimise the logistics cost base
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| Interactive workshop |
| Workshop led by Every Angle |
Optimising your working capital position through financial supply chain processes
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| Interactive workshop |
| Workshop led by Solving Efeso |
Enhancing the lean supply chain management for the lean economy to minimise costs
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| Interactive workshop |
| Optimising inventory levels through voice-directed technology |
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| 10:25 |
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Networking and refreshments |
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| 11:05 |
| Supply chain financing |
| IFC/ World Bank Group shares its view on how SCF can support supply chains with emerging market suppliers selling to major US and European companies
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- Bringing Supply Chain Financing to Emerging Market suppliers
- Main conclusions from IFC’s Global SCF Market Study – level of interest among exporters, banks and buyers, potential value of SCF, and market trends
- IFC’s vision and current activities for supporting SCF programs that cover emerging market suppliers
Farzin Mirmotahari,
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IFC/World Bank Group
Priyamvada Singh,
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IFC/World Bank Group
Rogers Le Baron,
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IFC/Worldbank Group
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| Demand planning and optimisation |
| Delivering a demand-driven supply chain to meet market volatility
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- Meeting changing demand dynamics by aligning demand and supply chain capability
- Ensuring flexibility by working with the wider enterprise to actively shape customer demand
- Collaborating with customers to optimise the availability
- Smoothing the bull-whip effect of market volatility in supply chain
Jarkko Aro,
Director, Supply Logistics,
Nokia
Finland
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| Leadership and skills |
| What is lean leadership?
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- Leadership: the difference between success and failure?
- 4 key elements to create the lean leader of the future:
- Organise for success
- Educate the workforce
- Ensure internal support
- Track achievements
- Systematically applying the 4 elements to create the lean leader of the future
Mike Loughrin,
Director, Lean and Six Sigma Programmes,
ISCEA
USA
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| Logistics and transportation |
| How do we collaborate with providers to ensure supply of capacity and equipment |
- Minimising the impact of roller-coaster oil prices on your logistics frameworks
- Leveraging collaborative relationships to drive down costs and counter volatility
- Mitigating against shortage of equipment, talent and capacity by re-addressing agreements with partners
Alain Baeyens,
Lead Buyer, Global Procurement,
Solvay
Belgium
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| 11:40 |
| Successful supply chain financing programmes |
- Strengthening partnerships with Volvo suppliers by offering a win-win solution
- Optimising working capital across the entire supply chain
- Supporting financially weak suppliers by leveraging Volvo’s strong balance sheet
- Overcoming common pitfalls in supply chain financing implementations
Nicole Bjugger,
Director of Supplier Financial Solutions,
Volvo Group
Sweden
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Special panel discussion:
How do we position ourselves to meet volatile levels of demand |
- Do we collaborate further with key customers?
- Should we localise Point of Sale (POS) data?
- Integrating Business Intelligence (BI) innovatively to mitigate risks and optimise demand planning
- Bringing SCM to the forefront of the business with sales/marketing to actually shape demand
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Special panel discussion:
Developing the supply chain leader of the future, today |
- How do we develop supply chain leaders?
- What characteristics does the "leader" need?
Mike Loughrin,
Director, Lean and Six Sigma Programmes,
ISCEA
USA
Professor Alan Waller OBE,
Vice President,
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
UK
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| Cola Life's optimised supply chain distribution systems and sustainable business models
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- Exploring the viability and options for using distribution networks in developing countries
- Leveraging powerful pre-existing Coca-Cola distribution networks
- Developing new and socially conscious business models
- Opportunities for CO2 and cost reduction
Simon Berry,
Director ,
ColaLife
UK
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| 12:15 |
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Themed luncheon discussion |
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| 13:45 |
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Driving social values to deliver business value |
- Instilling a culture of sustainability to deliver high-quality goods at a lower cost
- The economic crisis as an opportunity to understand sustainability as a key driver of value
- Delivering “green” techniques throughout the end-to-end supply chain to ensure cost efficiency
André Veneman,
Corporate Director for Sustainability,
Akzo Nobel
Netherlands
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| 14:20 |
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Networking and refreshments |
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| 14:40 |
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Standardising operational excellence in your supply chain across the different business units
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Case study: How GE capitalised on its Operational Excellence DNA and ecomagination initiative in order to drive new products and logistics process to delight customers and transform its business portfolio for sustainable growth.
- Harmonising operational excellence across the business to deliver business value through the supply chain
- Overcoming change management issues across differing units: managing people through change
- Ensuring cross-functional excellence across historically independent business units through a long-term operational strategy
Olivier Reitz,
Corporate Director Quality & Business Excellence,
GE
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| 15:15 |
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Successfully transferring the supply chain out of China and back into Europe |
Case study: From China to Hungary - shortening the global supply chain to dramatically improve key peformance indicators
- Drivers for change - improving punctuality, reliable delivery and higher quality of production,
- Successfully relocating manufacturing from China to Hungary
- Challenges and opportunities of transfering a complex supply chain from China into Hungary
Gergo Elek,
Head of Procurement,
National Instruments
Szabolcs Kiss,
Head of Manufacturing Operations,
National Instruments
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| 15:45 |
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Keynote: Reducing working capical and creating a flexible, integrated, leaner supply chain |
Eradicatingt the commodity driven, production driven push model and creating pull models
- Creating flexibility in the supply chain
- Becoming an integrated supply chain
- Unlocking working capical from the supply chain, stock ,waste
- Implementing a successful cost reduction programme
- Surviving and thriving in Euope's worst economy
Henk Slagt,
CEO,
Saga foods
Hungary
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| 15:45 |
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Where next for Low Cost Country Sourcing (LCCS)? |
Does "low cost" exist anymore? Is "best cost" more viable now?
- Where, if anywhere, will be the next low cost sourcing region?
- Overcoming high transportation costs by entering low cost markets?
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| 16:20 |
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Strategic sourcing and procurement |
Special panel discussion:How do we collaborate with suppliers to ensure contract delivery?
- How do we strike the balance between supplier survival and contract delivery?
- Do we contract with "back-up suppliers" as a contingency plan?
- How do we structure relationships and contracts to ensure adaptability to changing market dynamics?
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| 16:55 |
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Driving visibility across your logistics network to reduce the carbon footprint and minimise costs |
- · Finding the business opportunity in managing the transportation carbon footprint
- Developing measurement techniques to profile your carbon footprint
- Establishing an effective carbon management strategy to drive business through the upturn
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| 16:55 |
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Chairperson's closing remarks, followed by close of summit |
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