Logistics CIO Forum 2012 Agenda - Expert Insight Into Logistics Technology
The 14th Logistics CIO Forum – February 28th and 29th – at the Wyndham, Chicago.
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| Day 1: February 28th, 2012 |
| 8:30 - Opening Remarks |
| 8:45 - THEME 1 – Putting Data at the Forefront of your Logistics and Transportation Company |
8:45 - 9:15 Presentation: How to Get the Most of Your BI Systems Without Increasing Costs
Brad Mueller - Vice President Supply Chain - Briggs Healthcare
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9:15 - 10:15 PANEL: Data is at the core of a logistics company. This session will show you how to leverage data to make your company even more nimble, efficient and effective at satisfying customers.
Business Intelligence - leveraging your data to stay competitive and forward-looking.
- Discover how to use real-time metrics to help your logistics company rapidly identify its weakest processes to improve your overall delivery of services to your customers.
- Understand how to use metrics to track externally-focussed processes including those of your logistics partners, manufacturers and retailers by employing BI technology to consolidate external data.
- Efforts to reduce carbon footprints are common-place today. Discover how companies are incorporating carbon measurement data into their decision-making by using their BI systems to comply with regulation and cut costs through reducing carbon expenditures.
- Learn how logistics companies are automating data consolidation and data processing from warehouses, customs-compliance, TMS, supply chains, ERP systems etc. to gain valuable visibility of their operations and make quick, accurate and informed decisions.
- Given the amount of data shared between logistics companies and their supply chain partners, discover how to keep track of your data, and that of your customers to ensure safety, security and satisfaction by employing comprehensive BI solutions.
- Clean, accurate and consistent data is becoming key to ensure Business Intelligence solutions’ ROI - learn how to achieve this by focussing your business around data using systems such as interactive dashboards, central data portholes and data consolidation.
BI Case-Studies – How major logistics companies are implementing BI and working to maintain data-security.
- Learn from Kenco - an Inbound Logistics top100 3PL Provider – and their phased BI implementation. Discover why a phased approach to implementation allowed them to determine user needs and identify key business priorities, to create a tailored process that satisfies both business requirements and cost, time and quality constraints.
- Discover how OHL - an Inbound Logistics top100 3PL Provider - recently went through its own Solution implementation following initial success with business intelligence in a finance and accounting-focused data initiative. See how your company can transition other data projects into full-fledged BI.
- Find out how ISO - one of New Zealand’s leading 3PLs, that ships over 10 million tons of cargo annually - secured their data to gain customer trust by implementing a comprehensive data security solution.
Kristi Montgomery – VP IT – Kenco
David Fraser – CIO – ISO Ltd.
Sundip Gorai - Practice Head - BI & Analytics (North America) - Hexaware Technologies
Roman Hlutkowsky - Principal at the Hlutkowsky Group
Bassam Fawaz – Managing Principal at QUALIDAS, LLC, and former CIO at Agility Global Logistics (Moderator) |
| 10:15 Coffee Break |
| 11:15 The Effective Implementation of Mobile Technology in a Mobile Industry |
PANEL: Mobility is central to the logistics industry, given its global nature, fast pace and complexity. How is mobile technology helping logistics executives keep-pace in this environment?
- Mobile device applications are consistently voted one of the quickest ROI initiatives for logistics companies. Learn how you can harness the power of apps to improve your customer communication, visibility, work-force communication and data collection.
- The consumerization of IT – weigh the good, the bad and the ugly of mobile devices to help your company’s decision to capitalize on the mobile revolution.
- the good -
mobile devices are cheap, highly functional devices that can be quickly implemented to benefit many processes from communication to data consolidation eliminating cumbersome centralised IT systems – learn how to harness this technology for your logistics company
- the bad - mobile devices create several security and safety issues – ensure your business secures mobile device data against device loss and data transmission. Discover how to minimize safety concerns facing driver communication on mobile devices.
- the ugly - consumer-grade devices lack durability – learn how to balance the low-cost and functionality of consumer-grade devices with the durability of proprietary ones.
- Learn how to use cross-platform functionality in mobile technology to give your customers, employees and logistics partners each the ability to benefit from your mobile applications. Help them stay in constant connection with your company.
- Discover where mobile devices can completely alter how you receive and manage data. Ensure you’re maximizing the latest mobile tricks to improve efficiency and streamline operations:
- Guarantee instant, uninterrupted, real-time communication of documentation between drivers, customers and headquarters through network connectivity
- Reduce trip times and frequencies through real-time routing, scheduling and form transfers
- Create mobile, secure platforms for data-entry, access and analysis
Robert Nathan – CEO – Load Delivered
Tim Flucht – VP – Penske
Bassam Fawaz – Managing Principal at QUALIDAS, LLC, and former CIO at Agility Global Logistics Roman Hlutkowsky - Principal at the Hlutkowsky Group (Moderator) |
| 12:15 – 1:15 Lunch |
| 1:15 Proprietary or Outsource? Cloud or In-house? What you need to know when choosing solutions. |
PANEL: This session will give you the tools needed to confidently chose whether your company should seek IT solutions that are In-house developed, outsourced or in the Cloud.
- TTS – a technologically forward-thinking logistics company – recently moved several processes to the Cloud. Learn their complete decision-making process, what they decided to move to the Cloud and discover how to steer the decision-making at your company
- Find out how – Quality Distribution - North America’s Largest Bulk transportation company saved over $250 000 a year on software licensing, and achieved further savings through minimal hardware and server upgrade expenses by transitioning from Microsoft Office Cloud Suite to Google Apps.
- Discover how to use Cloud-based technologies to help you work within the constraints of diminishing technology budgets while maintaining control of your information by weighing features, cost-models and physical device requirements.
- SaaS - The great logistics company equalizer. See how SaaS helps small and medium-sized logistics companies offer a technological level of service that can effortlessly compete with large logistics companies.
- Learn how the Cloud is helping large logistics companies become more agile by increasing their flexibility in the adoption of new technology and decreasing implementation time.
- Discover top tips for working with solution providers to create pared-down solutions that achieve exactly what your company needs.
Jeff Vielhaber – VP Operations – TTS
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| 2:00 – 4:00 Coffee Break |
| 4:00 THEME 2 – The CIO, transformation change and budgeting – putting your IT department at the forefront of your company’s success |
CASE STUDY: The role of the CIO: from IT Budget Decision Making to negotiation. What you need to know about the continued evolution of your role as an IT executive in logistics.
- Learn how the first CIO of Sirva - the largest household goods and commercial delivery company in North America - was able to harness the importance of IT to help Sirva stay ahead of the competition.
- Learn how a new CIO responded successfully to constrained budgets in his first year by making Sirva’s IT department even more integral to the company’s continued success.
- How can you as a logistics CIO use your good returns from technology to gain influence in the boardroom.
- The Future CIO – discuss how the logistics CIO’s importance will continue to grow as more is demanded from technology. Make sure you are prepared for increased pressure on IT to cut shipment costs shipments and secure your competitive edge. Plus, sharpen your skills as the CIO is asked to play an increasing role in negotiation and business strategy.
Jesus Unzueta – CIO – Sirva |
4:45 CASE STUDY: IT and Business Strategy – Achieving Transformational Change through IT
- Learn how UTi – an Inbound Logistics reader’s choice top 10 3PL - used enterprise-led transformational change to develop a hybrid oriented IT model to become a logistics industry leader.
- Find out how UTi was able to look beyond the engineer’s perspective to develop their own in-house technology tools to provide their customers with complete end-to-end visibility, analyze their supply chain performance, manage orders and customize their own reports.
Ron Glickman – CIO – UTi |
5:20 PANEL: How to Gain Value from IT with Constrained Budgets
- Is it worth extending the life of your current IT systems? Learn how solution-providers are working with logistics companies and existing systems to achieve IT longevity.
- Discover effective ways to gain even further value from existing IT systems by reorganizing business practices and processes, and exploiting the unused features of existing systems.
- Learn how the Cloud can serve to cut the technology purchasing cycle and gain more purchasing flexibility through cost models, application choice and quick implementation.
Jesus Unzueta – CIO – Sirva
Ron Glickman – CIO – UTi
Amit Gupta - VP Travel, Transportation & Logistics - HCL Technologies Bassam Fawaz – Managing Principal at QUALIDAS, LLC, and former CIO at Agility Global Logistics (Moderator) |
| 5:45 - Closing Remarks |
| 6:00 - Networking Drinks |
"The best of three that I have been too. Great networking and relevant discussions."
Anthony M. DeCanti - V.P. Analysis & Information Systems - Werner Enterprises, Inc
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| Day 2: February 29th, 2012 |
8:30 Roundtable Discussions
Join your peers for an 'off-the-record' exchange of ideas. No sales pitches - just open discussion.
Select a topic and join a morning discussion workshop of your choice:
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9:30 Theme 3 – Supply Chain Visibility – Work with and learn from your future customers on achieving end-to-end Supply Chain Visibility |
| - An exclusive, in-depth session going from 9:00 through to 1:00 with a 1 hour coffee break dealing exclusively with Visibility - |
This unique session brings together your major manufacturer and retailer supply chain counterparts to discuss how they are using technology to work with your logistics and transportation companies.
9:30 – 10:00 Presentation: Supply Chain Visibility - The Logistics Service Provider Perspective
Jeff Jones – VP IS – UPS
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10:00 - 11:00 Part I: Hear case-studies from your customers on how they are achieving visibility in their supply chains
- Learn directly from four leading manufacturers and retailers from diverse industries how they are employing solutions to achieve visibility throughout their supply chains.
- Be on-hand to ask these executives how their visibility solutions are helping them work with logistics companies such as yours.
- Hear case-studies from fellow logistics CIOs to see how your visibility solutions compare with other logistics leaders, and have your potential customers weigh-in on what they are seeking from logistics providers in terms of Supply Chain visibility.
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11:00 – 11:40 Coffee Break |
11:40 - 1:00 PANEL: Part II: Visibility, Technology and Methodology for achieving End to End Visibility
- The TMS market reached $625 million in 2010 – find out where Logistics companies are spending their IT budgets on TMS to improve data quality, carrier on-boarding, emissions, order management, shipment planning and asset utilization.
- Learn the latest on how TMS is critical in managing your manufacturer and retailer customers by helping them achieve lean supply chains through communication, data sharing, scheduling and inventory management.
- Learn how track and trace technology is resolving visibility through more innovative applications allowing your systems to literally interact directly with your supply chain.
- Find out from your customers how your IT decisions on supply chain visibility affect their carrier choices.
- The responsibility of visibility – discover how your company can work with manufacturers and retailers to achieve end-to-end supply chain visibility by collaborating on technology decisions, employing flexible solutions and securing data interchanges.
Joshua Bloomfield – GMM Program Lead – Caterpillar
Jim Bach – VP Inventory Management – Cardinal Health
Jack Allen –Â
Sr. Director, Logistics and Manufacturing Solutions – CISCOÂ
Gregory Linder – Director of Supply Chain – True Value Co.
Jeff Jones – VP IS – UPS
Roman Hlutkowsky - Principal at the Hlutkowsky Group (Moderator) |
1:00 – Closing Remarks |
1:15 Lunch – Forum Ends |
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