Conferences

Summary

 

Implementing supply chain standards and practices across the organisation, and achieving supply chain visibility and control is a continual challenge facing Supply Chain Managers and CFOs. 

Attending the Supply Chain Optimisation conference, 17^th – 19^th November will assist you in ensuring your supply chain strategy is integrated with your organisation’s marketing, production, and financial strategies. 

Hear leaders in Supply Chain Management and related strategies also address practical issues such as:  Incorporating the supply chain into business continuity plans; Establishing a green supply chain; Recruiting supply chain talent and addressing the skills shortage; Successfully developing supply chain leaders; Measuring the success supply chain optimisation strategies; Discovering the pitfalls and key success factors of a Service Level Agreement negotiation; Eliminating waste and improving bottom line via lean six sigma. 

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Learning Objectives

Speakers

Ravi Seethamraju, Strategic Alliance Chair, Supply-Chain Council, Australia New Zealand Chapter

Jonathon Grigg, NSW President, Supply Chain & Logistics Association of Australia

Tony Hawthorne, Global Procurement Manager – Sustainability & Risk, Foster’s Group

Scott Duncan, Group Supply Chain Manager, Bayer Healthcare

Conference Agenda

DAY ONE:  MONDAY 17th NOVEMBER 2008

8:30 Registration

9:00 Welcome address from the Chair:

Ravi Seethamraju, Strategic Alliance Chair, Supply-Chain Council, Australia New Zealand Chapter

Supply Chain Visibility, Adaptability and Control

9:05 CASE STUDY: Implementing enterprise-wide supply chain standards and practices

• Ensuring your supply chain strategy is integrated with marketing, production, and financial strategies

• Gaining control of your organisation’s supply chain data and workflow

• Building an effective inventory and procurement strategy

• Optimising across your organisations’ entire supply chain:
  -  adopt an end-to-end approach, instead of improving one process at a time

• Maintaining effective communication with your supply chain partners

9:50 CASE STUDY: Building an adaptive supply chain 

• Prioritising areas of improvement within your supply chain

• Improving supply chain visibility for staff, and benefiting through:
  - better tracking of order fulfillment
  - regulating manufacturing more efficiently
  - balancing supply and demand issues

• Meeting changing customer demands and volatile market forces

• Being end-customer responsive, and meeting changing customer demands

10:35 Morning tea

11:00 CASE STUDY: Achieving supply chain visibility and control

• Reducing costs, input cost control, and improving customer satisfaction through greater supply chain visibility

• Gaining insight into how your trading partners are performing

• Eliminating “black holes” in your supply chain and achieving total cost tracking, to enable informed decisions

• Ensuring intervention and timely resolution of inventory stock-outs through real-time visibility into inventory delays

• Delivering a single consistent view of the supply chain based on cross-system data integrity

11:45 CASE STUDIES: Optimising the Physical Supply Chain - "How much does Location really matter?"

• Knowing the key trade offs in facility location and the importance of location for warehouses and distribution centres and how this impacts the key cost drivers in the Supply Chain

• Taking an end to end cost and service approach

• Exploring examples of why companies change facility location

• Understanding facility location dynamics in the Australian environment  

Rob O’Byne, Managing Director, Logistics Bureau

12:30 Lunch 

SUPPLY CHAIN CONTRACTS 

1:30 Best practice contract management

• Implementing policies which enforce use of standard contract language and terms

• Performing regular audits and performance checks using pre-defined metrics
  - measure improvements in compliance and overall contract performance

• Identifying contract management “champions” and securing strong executive and stakeholder support

• Building supply contingencies into your contracts

Andrew Mansour, Partner, Allens Arthur Robinson

MANAGING RISKS AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY  

2:20 Managing your supply chain risks

• Identify and quantify key factors regarding supply chain risk

• Understanding risks associated with cost-cutting measures, such as global sourcing, contract manufacturing and lean techniques

• Assessing the financial viability of supply partners – will they be around?

• Identifying risks associated with single sourcing vs. multi-sourcing

3:00 Afternoon tea

SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY   

3:20 Supply Chain Partner Selection 

• Gathering and evaluating information about potential supply chain partners through better communication channels

• Determining if you have the most appropriate supply chain partners

• Identifying key drivers of supply chain partner success

• Determining supply chain partner selection criteria and constantly evaluating it

• Communicating the selection criteria to all stakeholders

• Assessing a supplier's market share, trends within their industry, their long-term strategic plans, and their investments in research

• Focusing on distribution partners who hold real growth potential

Jonathon Grigg, NSW President, Supply Chain & Logistics Association of Australia

eCOMMERCE   

4:00 CASE STUDY: Reducing lead times and improving accuracy by incorporating eCommerce initatives into your supply chain portfolio

• Demonstrating the value of eCommerce in the supply chain to the board

• Introducing an automated eCommerce supply chain between your organisations and your supply partners

• Developing a streamlined supply chain with the assistance of eCommerce and eProcurement

• Ensuring the whole supply chain is flowing more smoothly by steering all supply chain partners down the path of uniformity by adopting Standards

4:45 Close of Day One

DAY TWO:  TUESDAY 18TH NOVEMBER 2008

8:55 Opening remarks from the Chair

Ravi Seethamraju, Strategic Alliance Chair, Supply-Chain Council, Australia New Zealand Chapter

SUSTAINABILITY IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN

9:00 2 CASE STUDIES. 2 PERSPECTIVES: Establishing a Green Supply Chain

• Reducing CO2 emissions footprint by incorporating carbon reduction into your supply chain strategy

• Considering the growing impact of the concept of sustainability

• Addressing sustainability compliance factors across your supply chain

9:00 – 9:45 Hugh Wareham, CEO, ECO-Buy

9:45 – 10:30 Tony Hawthorne, Global Procurement Manager – Sustainability & Risk, Foster’s Group   

10:30 Morning tea

TALENT MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEE "BUY IN"

10:50 Recruiting supply chain talent and addressing the skills shortage and buy-in

• Exploring effective strategies to recruit qualified supply chain staff

• Strategically identifying and addressing shortages along the entire supply chain

• Introducing effective retention strategies and processes

• Implementing training initiatives to build industry knowledge and promoting skilled supply chain staff

Kim Winter, Group Managing Director, Logistics & Supply Chain Recruitment

11:30 2020 Supply Chain & Procurement - developing supply chain leaders within your organisation

• Understanding the key motivators of today’s supply chain and procurement job seeker

• Implementing supply chain leadership development programs

• Differentiating your company in a competitive supply chain employment market

• Focusing on and investing more in the development of supply chain staff and improving employee engagement
• Is the CIO the new Supply Chain Leader?

Michael Digby, Senior Manager, Hudson Supply Chain & Procurement

12:10 Supply Chain Leaders - where to now?

Linda White, Managing Director, Sterling Leadership 

12:50 Lunch 

1:50 Retail Logistics Supply Chain Code of Conduct

• Recognising the need for a safe and efficient transport function

• Effectively managing your organisation's obligations under relevant road transport and OHS legislation

• Identifying issues relating to the "Chain of Responsibility" and managing compliance

• Producing a clear and equitable alignment of responsibilities for the carriage of goods against relevant standards and regulations

• Ensuring higher standards of accountability and best practice within the industry 

Ian Ross, Program Director, T&L Safety & Industry Codes, Australian Logistics Council

2:30 CASE STUDY: Practical partner appraisal techniques

• Ensuring the supplier appraisal process is sufficiently rigorous

• Capturing data about suppliers with a clear plan about how to use it for measurement purposes

• Comparing suppliers against each other rather than against a common standard

• Implementing performance improvement strategies for a holistic approach to your supply chain

3:10 Afternoon tea

METRICS

3:30 Choosing the right supply chain optimisation strategy

• Overcoming barriers to measuring the business impact of supply chain optimisation strategies

• Assessing the success of your supply chain optimisation strategies and identifying opportunities for further improvement

• Evaluating the investment in supply chain optimisation within your organisation

• Knowing the supply chain function’s contribution to profitability

4:10 CASE STUDY: Using Performance Based Logistics (PBL) to optimise your supply chain

• Understanding the attributes of a successful PBL

• Setting up, monitoring, evaluating and controlling achievable performance objectives within and between logistical functions

• Achieving a unique blend of logistical tactical KPIs and integrated supply chain performance

• Identifying the common obstacles of implementing a PBL and how you can overcome these

• Best practice PBL implementation, to increase productivity, accountability, and financial performance

• Linking KPIs to rewards

• Making expectations and KPI’s more focused on broader, more important strategic and financial goals

4:50 Close of Day Two

Workshop Agenda

WEDNESDAY 19TH NOVEMBER 2008  

8:30 Registration

WORKSHOP A

9:00 - 11:00

Lean Six Sigma - eliminating waste and improving your organisation's bottom line 

• Definining value from the supply chain from the eyes of the customer
• Significantly improving operational excellence, and greatly improving competitive advantage with key customers and markets 
• Improving overall supply chain results and tackling process improvement more holistically

Led by: Carter McNabb, Partner, GRA - Experts in Demand, Inventory & Supply Chain Optimisation

(Lunch is served for Delegates attending both Workshops A & B)

WORKSHOP B

11:30 – 1:30

Centralisation vs. Decentralisation and maintaining a sustainable carbon supply chain

• To centralise or decentralise - knowing the key factors to consider: cost, human resource issues, reliability, control and standards
• Understanding the impact and dynamics of centralisation in supply chain decision making
• Knowing the status of sustainability policy in the Australian Carbon Economy
• Strategies in how to reduce supply chain GHG emissions
• Assessing the ROI impact of carbon management on your supply chain in attaining sustainable social, environmental and financial objectives

Led by:

Ian Larsen, North Region Manager, Supply Chain Consulting

Lucy McQuillan, NSenior Environmental Business Consultant, Supply Chain Consulting

Pricing
(must register & pay by dates listed)