| DAY ONE - Thursday, December 9th |
8:45 Chairman's Introduction - Xenophon Koufteros, Associate Professor, Texas A & M University |
9:00 Basic Ingredients for Supply Chain Resilience: Flexibility and Redundancy |
Building a resilient supply chain requires that organizations be ambidextrous; they ought to develop the right mix of flexibility and redundancy. However, there are limitations of what each can do given the volatile nature of the environment. Does flexibility and redundancy contribute to organizational performance? We expect differential effects. |
- Explore a multilateral approach and coordination methods that will improve the flexibility and redundancy of your supply chain
- Discuss the factors that affect flexibility and redundancy. An exhaustive list of factors is provided
- Examine the factors at four levels: Ecology, Organizational Culture and Top Leadership, Strategies, and Routines. Test which factors enable the adoption of strategies and routines for flexibility and redundancy
- Operational and firm-level performance is impacted by flexibility and redundancy strategies and routines. Learn which strategies and routines have the most potent impact
- Obtain a holistic framework for supply chain resilience based on empirical findings
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Expert Presentation
Xenophon Koufteros, Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management and Principal Investigator of an international study of supply chain resilience and risk management, Texas A & M University. |
| 9:30 Using Standards to Cost-Effectively Mitigate Risk |
With an abundance of different definitions, supply chain resilience is often an area of confusion and ambiguity. Learn how to use the ISO’s supply chain resilience standards to cost-effectively mitigate risk and develop a basis for communication and development – whether you get certified or not! |
- Distinguish the difference between corporate and governmental resilience and why it’s important to know the difference
- Learn how using the right standards in the right situation could improve your supply chain resilience strategy
- Enhance the flexibility and communication across your supply chain network by establishing a common terminology
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Presentation
Steve O'Malley, International Standardization Organization (TC-8), Ship & Supply Chain Security Standards Coordinator, ISO |
| 10:00 Save Time and Money with a Pro-Active Approach to Ever-Changing Regulations and Compliance Requirements |
| Achieve accurate delivery times and minimize delay by learning which management systems provide the flexibility to respond quickly and effectively to unforeseen regulatory changes |
- Enhance the flexibility of your supply chain to ensure a swift reaction to new regulatory changes both domestically and internationally
- Get the tools to anticipate upcoming regulatory changes and take a proactive approach to compliance
- Shorten information time delay with proven frameworks for streamlining communication channels from market forecasting teams
- Learn which government programs, coalitions, and global standards could improve your regulatory forecasting and response to change
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Presentation
Alex Albertiti, Director -Logistics and Trade Compliance, Charlotte Russe |
| 10:30 Coffee Break |
| 11:00 Supply Chain Disruption Lightening Round |
| This is your chance to benchmark best-in-class strategies for reducing the occurrence/mitigating the effect of common supply chain disruptions. Moderated roundtables will be set up based on types of supply chain disruption and attendees can choose the one most relevant to their business. Disruptions under discussion include: |
- Cargo Theft
- Counterfeiting
- Natural Disasters
- Supplier unreliability/insolvency
- IT Failures
- Compliance requirements
- LSP unreliability/insolvency
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Hosted by:
Maurizio Scrofani,Managing Director, CargoNet |
| 12:30 Lunch |
| 2:00 Accurately Assess the Risks of “Low-Cost” Suppliers and Work Effectively with Current Suppliers to Enhance Supply Chain Protection |
| Minimize the potential cost implications of day-to-day problems and decreased service levels across an international supplier network by effectively analyzing potential pitfalls |
- Improve supply chain security by involving 2nd and 3rd tier suppliers in contractual agreements
- Avoid diminished services levels and hidden costs by effectively weighing the long term implications of "low cost" suppliers
- Get the most effective methods for establishing a baseline for optimal security within contracts for new suppliers
- Reduce the risk of inefficiencies and supplier insolvency with a non-invasive approach to supplier security, risk and financial monitoring
- Accurately determine the level of supply chain accountability for suppliers within “high risk areas” and learn the best ways to strategize collaboratively to minimize potential risks
- Increase response time with best-in-class methods for cultivating open channels of communication with key suppliers
- Successfully conduct risk assessment of key suppliers with minimal headcount
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Presentation:
Kenneth Konigsmark, Supply Chain Security Senior Manager, Boeing |
2:30 Determine Where to Invest in Your Supply Chain and How to Assess the Impact Your Investments on the Bottom Line |
| Discover how you can increase the resilience of your supply chain by making smart investments and how to demonstrate the impact particular strategies have on your bottom line |
- Hear how Shure’s commitment to maintaining long-term and engaged relationships with suppliers have led to optimized performance levels.
- Work within the three-tier framework of people, processes and technology to determine the crucial investments for the years ahead.
- Accurately assess the impact on the bottom line by effectively correlating metrics to net profit
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Presentation:
Christopher Smith, Director of Supply Chain Planning, Shure |
| 3:00 Coffee Break |
| 3:30 Define ROI for Supply Chain Resilience Initiatives & Maintain Cost Control – Panel Debate |
| Discover how you can increase the security and flexibility of your supply chain and still drive down costs |
- Learn innovative and effective cost-cutting solutions to stretch your budget and help your company’s profit margins
- Explore proven frameworks for demonstrating ROI on specific supply chain risk, resilience & security measures
- Consistently maintain a high-level of performance by working with suppliers and logistics service providers’ to manage costs, limit damage, spoilage and recalls
- Minimize your transportation costs and hedge again fuel price fluctuations by establishing global standards across your supply chain
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Opening Presentation:
John Wooten, Senior Procurement Manager – Logistics,The Clorox Company
Panel Participants:
John Wooten, Senior Procurement Manager – Logistics, The Clorox Company
William Mclaury, Executive Director, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Jeff RInkus, Chief Operations Officer, ABB Concise
Christopher Smith, Director of Supply Chain Planning, Shure
Jeff Hedges, Manager - Business Development, Dematic |
| 4:30 Supply Chain Survival: Fostering Corporate Resilience |
Being able to respond effectively to disruption and disaster is a significant factor of supply chain resilience – learn how you can mitigate the risks to your supply chain by utilizing a best-in-class emergency response strategy. |
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Discover some emerging trends in disaster management and learn new tactics that are relevant to your industry
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Explore how disaster relief coordination is organized in government, corporate, and non-profit sectors as well as how these sectors interact
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Learn how your company can collaborate with government and state officials during times of crisis via a Business Emergency Operation Center
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Obtain a checklist that your company can use for supply chain contingency planning
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Presentation:
Joseph Booth, Executive Director, Stephenson Disaster Management Institute – LSU
Jamison Day, Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management Information Systems and Decision Sciences, LSU |
| 5:30 Drinks Reception |
| 7:00 End of Day One |
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| DAY TWO - Friday, December 10th |
9:00 Chairman's Introduction - Xenophon Koufteros, Associate Professor, Mays Business School |
| 9:15 Optimizing Risks in Complex and Expanding Global Supply Chains |
Developing a risk-aware culture in your supply chain organizations, backed up by solid risk management processes and risk treatment plans, can prevent a disaster and will make a difference in the performance of your company.
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- Viewing supply chains as strategic business assets
- Creating awareness of and visibility into extended supply chains, and their inter-connections and inter-dependencies
- Strategies for designing and deploying risk management across your supply chain
- How to deal with low-likelihood, high-consequence risks
- Using technology and international standards to facilitate risk management
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Keynote Presentation:
John Brown, Director Risk Management and Supply Chain Development, The Coca-Cola Company |
| 10:00 Create Better Response Time Across Your Supply Chain by Fortifying Operational Infrastructure |
| Overcome the difficulties of operational innovation with clear strategies for creating and deploying more effective business processes |
- Get a structured rubric for maintaining a balance between long term and short term operational priorities
- “Good resilience is good training” – Explore the programs that ensure global teams are prepared to react efficiently to unforeseen disruptions
- Find out how to identify and overcome the barriers to supply chain flexibility within your business with top tips from a supply chain leader
- Take a holistic approach to effective communication with an in-depth look at key assessment tools
- Learn optimized processes for Increasing efficiency despite depleted staff members
- Examine the degree to which operational risk, security and supply chain planning intersect and how to collaborate towards operational excellence
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Keynote presentation:
Louis Ferretti, Director, Environmental Compliance and Supply Chain Social Responsibility, IBM |
| 10:30 Overcome Vulnerability and Increase Visibility within Your Supply Chain Networks |
Combine "lean" practices with an "agile" response strategy to strengthen your supply chain weaknesses |
- Apply a step-by-step methodology to accurately identify the vulnerabilities of your supply chain and how to engage the larger corporation to increase supply chain robustness
- Compare the advantages and disadvantages of active monitoring vs. passive monitoring for your supply chain and assess the long term and short term cost implications of both
- An essential overview of the newest track & trace technologies along with their benefits and limitations
- Determine whether newer technology or improved management procedures will make the difference to your supply chain efficiency
- Get the leading framework for integrating new technology into your operational strategy
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Presentations and Q&A:
Jeff Rinkus, Chief Operations Officer, ABB Concise |
| 11:00 Coffee Break |
| 11:30 Innovation through Disaster: Crucial Lessons Learned from Major Supply Chain Disruptions |
Hear how MeadWestvaco coped with a major supply chain disruption as a result of the Swine Flu scare and
how that lead to a global business continuity plan for pandemics and a change in planning strategies |
- Top methods for turning your biggest supply chain failure into an essential corporate strategy lesson
- Analyze what your supply chain weaknesses tell you about your company as a whole and use this information to optimize business processes
- Get a step-by-step methodology for using failures as a means for spurring innovation and change
- Learn how to formalize post-disruption assessment for maximum efficiency and how to lay out the groundwork for future improvements across the supply chain
- Effectively work with brand integrity teams to prevent the short term and long term effects of supply chain incidents
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Case Study and Q&A:
Brian McClure, Director – Global Procurement & Supply Chain, MeadWestvaco |
12:00 Supplier Resilience Response
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| Understand how your suppliers contribute to your key supply chain resilience strategies and how you can optimize efficiency with a more engaged approach |
- Explore the time-distance equation
- Re-define Just in Time and the suppliers role in the manufacturing process
- Learn how to qualify each suppliers contribution to greater resilience
- Apply new strategies to your supply chain through case studies in supplier efficiency and improved productivity
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| Chitra Subbarayan,Vice President, Ackerman & Co. |
| 12:30 Lunch |
| 2:00 End of Day Two |
