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KEYNOTE Making Supply Chain Decisions in a Volatile, Ever-Changing World
- What qualifies as a World-Class Supply Chain? Why is it so difficult to maintain?
- Discussing how the challenges facing a global operation’s supply chain have evolved over time
- Highlighting the role of teamwork in keeping a company productive in the face of adversity
- Looking forward: How does one strike a balance between versatility and efficiency?
Greg ShoemakerVice President ProcurementHewlett-Packard |
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PANEL DISCUSSION Moving Risk-Based SCM from Reactive to Proactive Strategies
Lessons Learned From Recent Global Supply Chain Disruptions
The last several years have seen a series of disasters rattle global supply chains: The Eyjafjallajökul eruption, the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, flooding in Thailand, and a host of other disruptions both natural and man-made have highlighted the vulnerability of long supply lines and single-source suppliers. How have these incidents shaped forward-thinking supply chain strategies? Topics for discussion will include:
- Rethinking redundancies in global supply chains: Striking a balance between the ROI of reliable throughput via additional inventory and diversifying the base of suppliers and manufacturers versus the savings of lean SCM and just-in-time delivery
- Developing agility in your organization’s logistical systems: Exploring the investing options available in intermodal coordination and diversifying distribution networks
- Offering methods to shorten planning horizons to allow for nimble responses to sudden changes
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SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGIES Supply Network Planning in a Volatile World
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Many companies struggle with managing having supply available for today’s demand let alone what will be needed relative to the supply system in a year given volatile conditions. This session will provide the opportunity to engage on a set of techniques that will allow you to continuously evaluate the ability of your supply network to meet your changing commercial business needs, including:
- Facilitating better relationships between suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers
- Improving demand forecasting and just-in-time delivery with a two-way flow of information
- Using SCM as a bridge to encourage conversation and consensus building
Jake BarrGlobal Director, Supply Network OperationsProcter & Gamble | TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS PANEL DISCUSSION: Exploring Near- and Long-Term Opportunities Generated by the Panama Canal Capacity Increase
- Forecasting the supply chain implications of a more commodious Panama Canal
- Reviewing port, warehousing, rail, and road infrastructure improvements in anticipation of the new Panama Canal capabilities
- Relieving your bottlenecks by increasing volumes, shortening time in transit, and scheduling freight deliveries into off-peak periods
Rodolfo SabongeVP Market Analysis & ResearchPanama Canal Authority | PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT From Analysis to Action: Making Metrics Mean Something
- Establishing and maintaining a valid performance measurement system with properly identified KPIs and well-defined metrics is just the first step: What do you do with the data?
- Declaring quantifiable goals and drawing in stakeholders to devise a strategy to achieve those objectives
- Applying new initiatives to the supply chain process and monitoring progress in real time: How does this inform further decision-making?
| MATERIAL HANDLING CASE STUDY: Optimizing Your Warehouse Workforce
- Engineering quantifiable and qualifiable performance standards for your company’s warehousing processes
- Bringing employee incentives into the process to build grassroots support for innovation and improvement
- Getting the most out of your labor management tools and tactics
- Building upon early successes and scaling up winning initiatives throughout your organization
Dave SchaefferVice President Distribution & FulfillmentSimon & Schuster |
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INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP: SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGIES Demand-Driven Performance for Inventory and Operations Management
- Seeking the causes of inaccurate forecasting
- Understanding the forces at play upon delivery time tables
- Mitigating these considerations to drive inventory and operations efficiency
| INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP: PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Optimizing Freight Rates
- Planning a transportation strategy that will support your corporate goals
- Benchmarking your plan against similar transportation systems
- Negotiating a freight rate by understanding operating costs and processes
- Identifying, documenting, and recovering carrier overcharges through invoice auditing
| INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP: TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS Practical Insights from Real World S&OP Deployments
- Highlighting industry pressure points driving organizations to deploy S&OP for competitive advantage
- Illustrating and reviewing case studies from consumer packaged goods and high tech manufacturers --including Sony-- of S&OP in action. What lessons can we learn from their experience?
| INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP: MATERIAL HANDLING Customizing Your Organization’s Approach to Transportation, Warehousing, and Freight Forwarding
- Combining strategy, planning, management, and integration with excellent operational execution
- Developing and acquiring skills and sharing knowledge between different links of the supply chain
- Bringing IT solutions to bear on common supply chain challenges
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SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGIES Horizontal Collaboration: The Balancing Act of Sharing Data While Protecting Confidential Information
The Next Level of Supply Chain Management
- Understanding the roles business partners play when collaborating on SCM
- Complying with anti-competition laws
- Protecting proprietary information while sharing data to improve end-to-end supply chain performance
- Building upon successes and learning from setbacks
| TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS PANEL DISCUSSION: North American Intermodal Freight Challenges
- Exploring some of the issues facing long- and short-haul trucking:
- Workforce
- Gas prices
- Changing regulations
- Discussing how other freight options can contribute to mitigating these issues
- How is corridor and terminal congestionbeing addressed? What more can be done?
Lee BeardVice President TransportationCoca-Cola
Tony HeldrethVice President Corporate Procurement and LogisticsJMC Steel Group | PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Understanding Demand: Statistical Forecasting Techniques Across a Broad Product Portfolio
- Comparing and contrasting the capabilities of different planning strategies
- Making the front-desk operators valued contributors to forecasting data collection
- Harmonizing your metrics across silos and regions
| MATERIAL HANDLING Distribution Center Tools and Tactics to Drive Productivity
- What can automation and process planning offer to modern distribution centers?
- Weighing the merits of different technologies: Which offers the best ROI? Which is the best balance of usability and reliability?
- Training a workforce to make the best use of the equipment and methodology available to them
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INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP: SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGIES Bringing Lean Efficiencies to the Supply Chain
- Offering tools, tactics, and technology that bring about meaningful and sustained change to your organization’s supply chain
- Targeting the bottlenecks: Identification, analysis, and solution implementation
- Demonstrating SCM optimization in action based on read-world examples
| INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP: TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS 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
- Establishing clear terms and conditions among all stakeholders
- Transitioning from major reforms to monthly compliance monitoring of an overhauled process
| INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP: PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Conquering Supply Chain Complexity
- Building upon your existing infrastructure to turn your supply chain into a competitive, forward-thinking asset to the company
- Balancing new technological capabilities with legacy systems
- Creating a SCM data collection system that allows you to sense and respond
| INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP: MATERIAL HANDLING Sustainability in Material Handling
Green Initiatives With a Strong ROI
- Demonstrating the utility and cost-savings offered by reusable packaging, asset exchange, resource pooling, and reverse logistics in your warehousing and distribution centers
- Coordinating and collaborating horizontally with industry partners
- Comparing costs of this approach to traditional material handling
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PANEL DISCUSSION Supply Chain Management and Free Trade Agreements
Seeking Guidance From the Past as Your Organization Grows into the Future
- Reviewing recent and upcoming free trade agreements
- Remembering some of the impacts and lessons learned from NAFTA
- Debating what SC&L executives can expect in terms of changing regulations, tariffs, taxes, surcharges, and duties. What will really change, and what will be the same process under new terminology?
- Weighing the pros and cons of redistributing supply chains across newly lowered barriers
- Making a forest out of the trees: Supply Chain Management decisions that drive organizational positive outcomes
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KEYNOTE The New Rules of Retail: What Does the Store of the Future Look Like?
Building Supply Chains for the World’s Toughest Marketplace
Consumer behavior has radically changed over the last two decades: The internet, new technologies, globalization, and a saturated marketplace are all driving expectations to seek the best price and the best quality delivered at the very moment of purchase.
Using profiles and case studies from some of the largest retail companies in the world, the speaker will discuss:
- Evolving business models to respond to new demands
- How will retailers survive showrooming?
- New frontiers in marketing to an informed, elusive, and savvy customer base that expects both perfection and instant satisfaction from its purchases
- Designing efficient support systems that can keep pace with trends and scale up and down in time with demand
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