2012 Conference Programme
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Programme - Focus Day19th June 2012
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Supply chain as a function of total business strategy
- How your business strategy is influenced by the supply chain
- Understanding the contribution that supply chain makes 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
Robert Handfield
Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management
NC State University
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Building long-term sustainability into your supply chain strategy
- Ensuring that 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
Addressing energy concerns through hedging strategies
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Programme - Day One20th June 2012
Yossi Sheffi
Head of MIT's Engineering Systems Division & Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL)
MIT School of Engineering
- Globalisation of economy- risk or opportunity for your supply chain?
- Improving global flow of goods, information and capital
- How can global sourcing minimize your risk
- Understanding how growth of consumers in emerging markets is affecting your supply chain
Robert Handfield
Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management
NC State University
- Understanding the nature of IBP and how it can revitalise your supply chain
- Fostering the change: how to incorporate business drivers into your planning?
- Aligning people, processes and tools to enable integrated planning processes
- Applying IBP process in highly variable demand environments
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Reaching consumers in the growth markets- case study from the Middle East
- Choosing new supply chain set ups in emerging markets - Why “lift & shift” approach doesn’t work?
- Aligning the supply chain and the business strategies
- Matching the maturity curve to the market
Ensuring stability and agility in your supply chain through effective collaboration
- How does 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
Driving continuous improvement in forecasting
- Analyzing information from POS for constant validation of demand
- Identifying barriers limiting the value of your forecasts
Alex Bahr
Director Supply Chain Integration and Logistics, Worldwide Supply Chain Management
McDonald's Corporation
Driving towards 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?
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- What: Positive impact of differentiated SKU management on service and customer satisfaction
- Business Value: Faster reaction to market changes uncovers further market opportunities
- Impact on change: A Responsive SC enables Customer Centric conversations within Unilever
- Next steps: As flexibility tends to be absorbed within the development of the Supplier/Customer relationship, what comes next ?
Programme - Day Two21st June 2012
- How can BRIC markets become a cornerstone of your growth strategy?
- Matching the maturity curve to the market
- Creating high level partnerships with local partners & suppliers
- Adjusting distribution network to different market conditions
- Analysing cornerstones of successful e-supply chain management: speed, quality, price and customer service
- Ensuring information visibility for inventories, demand planning, capacity planning to all members of the supply chain
- How can suppliers gain visibility into the actual end-customer sales of their products?
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Cost control in a volatile marketplace
- Hedging against volatility: best practices to get raw material costs under control
- What cost reductions can offset material costs increases?
- Cutting costs internally while demanding more responsive supply chain
Developing capabilities for market responsive supply chain.
- Developing an integrated framework for responsive supply chain through understanding your market
- Creating capacity to adjust supply chain infrastructure and support unexpected changes in demand
- Leveraging flexible distribution networks
Understanding financial KPI’s for the supply chain
- Which KPI’s are appropriate for your industry?
- Using financial KPI’s for ongoing performance benchmarking
Increasing revenue and supply chain efficiency through demand shaping
- Improving planning of your product mix and offering
- Closing the gap between the supply chain and sales & marketing
- Steering customers toward available products and services
Scenarios planning in turbulent and uncertain times
- Addressing poor infrastructure, political instability and weak security
- Managing regional logistic differences
- Developing flexibility to manage just in time systems, low stock, controlled inventory
- Improving visibility and highlighting bottlenecks- what technology really works?
Delivering a competitive advantage through closed supply chains
- What industries should consider closed supply chains?
- Identifying people skills necessary for managing a closed supply chain- what’s different?
- How can closed supply chains respond to market volatility?
- Coordinating product management, supply chain planning, strategic sourcing and procurement in closed supply chains
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Integrating talent management into the company value creation process
- 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
- Understand what key issues you need to master in order to profit from the Cloud
- Integrating disparate systems and information silos to allow a holistic view of an operation
- Managing advanced order processing, logistics and trading partners integration through cloud- based architecture
- Addressing compliance and risk of security breaches
- How is the industry likely to evolve?
- The economy’s impact on transportation management – what are the shifts in transportation spending?
- Increasing importance of the railway as an environmentally friendly and secure mode of transport
- What comes after RFID? Analyzing potential of alternative data-capture technologies