Who is this Track Relevant for?

This track is designed for IT & Technology Executives. 

Relevant title include C-Level, CIO, SVP, VP, Director and Manager of IT and Technology.

Market sectors include: Retail, CPG, Food and Beverage, Consumer Electronics & Industrial Manufacturing. 

Sunday April 11^th 

1:00 – 5:00 pm  

Optional Round of Golf at the Rosen Shingle Creek Golf Club 

6:00 – 8:00 pm  

Welcome Cocktail Reception and Registration 

Monday April 12^th 

7:30 – 9:00 am  

Buffet Breakfast, Sebastian Ballroom 

8:00 – 8:50 am  

Keynote Address, Panel Discussion, Sebastian Ballroom 

“Successful Business Transformation – What’s your Role?” 

Business Transformation has emerged as a key focus for executive management to better align people, process and technology initiatives with business strategy and vision.  Leaders who have managed successful transformations have taken billions of dollars of waste, cost and complexity out of the end to end business and are now in a position to follow growth and innovation strategies. The reach of such transformations must transcend the various silos in an organization and thus all departmental leaders play an integral role in success. 

This Keynote Panel draws on the perspectives from a diverse group of senior executives at leading organizations to talk about best practice, learning’s, pitfalls and enablers in their journey to business and supply chain transformation. Key topics that will be discussed are relevant to all continuous improvement and transformation projects and leaders. The content will be valuable to bigger global companies as well as smaller local manufacturers and retailers from across the different verticals and markets; from retailer to consumer-driven and industrial build to order manufacturers. 

Best practice topics that will be discussed and debated are;

• Improving demand forecast accuracy through joint value creation initiatives with customers.
• Achieving reliable operations excellence in the extended product supply network.
• Making balanced and balanced trade offs across the business using information, governance, and processes such as S & OP and network optimization.
• Operationalizing demand and innovation across the extended value network.
• Managing risk and complexity.
• Change and performance management and organization design to achieve organization effectiveness.
• Designing, structuring, and developing talent in the global organization. 

Panelist:
Elizabeth Brady, VP Global Supply Chain, CRM, Boston Scientific
Dov Shenkman, VP Inventory Management and Replenishment, OfficeMax
George Morrison, Global Director, Supply Chain, Honeywell
Additional Panelist TBD 

Moderator: Roddy Martin, SVP Value Chain, AMR Research

9:00 – 10:00 am  

“Strategic Supply Chain Initiatives at SMSC”

SMSC recognized their business systems were in need of renovation.  In order to justify the investment, several initiatives to develop a quantitative business case to support the renovation were explored.  The core teams led by the CIO selected SAP’s value engineering process and created business cases for each major initiative.  Board approval was granted based on the merits of their business case.  SMSC embarked on a number of initiatives including Supplier Collaboration, Supply chain management, Channel Management, to cite a few.  In order to enable the transformation of these business initiatives in a very cost effective manner, SMSC upgraded their IT infrastructure to serve as the foundation to support their initiatives.   

Debbie Scott, CIO, SMSC co presented with Jeff Howell, Industry Principal, High Tech Industry, SAP Americas

10:00 – 11:00am

Case Study Presentation

NPI Financial co-presented with TBD customer

11:00 – 1:00pm

Targeted Research Meetings in Main Exhibit Hall in Sebastian Ballroom 

This element of the event provides the most targeted and time efficient medium to research the latest technology and innovation from the industry's premier suppliers. We will customize an appointment schedule based on your unique profile of interests to connect you with industry leading suppliers best placed to deliver real competitive advantage to your organization.

Appointments are in 25 minute windows and in each case you will be met by a senior level executive for a relaxed, open discussion on how their solutions may be put to work for your unique needs and requirements.

1:00 – 2:00 pm  

Gourmet Lunch, Sebastian Ballroom 

2:00 – 3:00pm

Plenary Presentation

Giri Durbhakula, Vice President Technology and CIO, Charlotte Russe

3:00 – 4:00pm

“Leveraging Downstream Demand Signal Insights directly into your planning processes to Sense and Shape Responses In Real-Time”

Clorox and Welch’s will discuss the integrated business planning solution capabilities these industry leaders have realized by sharing visibility across financial budgets and operations.

Learn how Oracle's Integrated Business Planning solution can help you:

-Align day-to-day sales forecasts and operations with strategic goals
-Leverage demand signals to sense actions in the market and evaluate the effectiveness of promotions executed to define promotion offerings in the future
-Evaluate how different scenarios / decisions affect your top and bottom line
-Sense and Identify emerging problems and take actions aligned to your objectives
-Create more reliable revenue forecasts and commitments
-Correlate operational decisions with business outcomes

Senthil Rajamanickan, CIO, Clorox and Sean O'Sullivan, Director Supply Chain Planning, Welch Food, Inc. co-presented with Linda Peel, Director Value Chain Planning, North American Application Strategy, Oracle

4:00 – 5:00pm

“How to create a comprehensive data governance strategy on a global scale"

Gain an understanding of how to optimally manage the on-going creation, collection, and maintenance of supply chain data for your integrated SAP ERP solutions. Learn how to eliminate data redundancy, content errors, lack of data standards and possible omissions; all critical to ensuring a healthy supply chain with a detailed look at two methods of data governance — active and passive. Understand how passive data governance allows users to interact directly with source systems to monitor results and identify data issues. Find out how active data governance differs from passive data governance by providing a guided process for the introduction and management of data into selected systems.  Examine the four levels of data governance — from “no data governance” where every user is entrusted to enter in their transactional data individually (passive) to creating an “active data governance” model that requires, and pre-validates data to specifically support a configured SAP business process. 

TBD Customer co-presented with Tom Kennedy, Founder and CTO, Backoffice Associates

5:00 – 6:00pm

“Technology as the Path to Excellence for Independent Pharmacy “ 

In the world of independent pharmacy there are a multitude of cultural, structural and operational challenges to developing and implementing integrated technology and yet, system wide integrated technology from POS to merchandising systems is one of the most effective means of driving operational excellence, customer satisfaction and profitability.  This likely holds true no matter what the corporate structure!  Come and hear from the CEO and National Director of Technology for the largest banner of independents in Canada about the journey of developing, piloting and implementing the first truly integrated system wide technology platform for independent pharmacy in Canada. Hear about the ‘lessons learned’ for your own technology projects. 

Sue Paish, Q.C., CEO, Pharmasave Drugs (National) Ltd. Co-presented with Francois Robinson, National Director, IT, Pharmasave Drugs (National) Ltd. 

6:00 – 7:30 pm  

Networking Drinks Reception 

7:30 pm                        

Gala Dinner 

Tuesday April 13^th 

7:30 – 9:00 am  

Buffet Breakfast, Sebastian Ballroom

8:00 – 8:50 am 

Keynote Address, Panel Discussion, Sebastian Ballroom 

“Integrated Business Planning through the extended Value Chain” 

Learn three sure fire ways to improve revenue and cut costs in today's economic environment: identify opportunities for revenue growth, improve cash flow by optimizing revenue and assets, and turn cost centers into profit centers. Value Chain Planning provides the perfect tools for understanding and controlling operations because they are driven by economics and can drive substantial improvements on both sections of the income statement. Learn how to link Operations, Sales and Finance to break down the silos and enhance the collaboration, not just the coordination…

Panelists: 
Senthil Rajamanickan, CIO, Clorox
Wes Olson, Managing Director, S&OP, Cisco
David Collier, VP Inventory Management, Car Quest
Sean O'Sullivan, Director Supply Chain Planning, Welch Food, Inc.

Moderators: Guy Yehiav, VP Sales & Strategy, Oracle; Linda Peel, Director Value Chain Planning, North American Application Strategy, Oracle

9:00 – 12:00am

Targeted Research Meetings in Main Exhibit Hall in Sebastian Ballroom 

This element of the event provides the most targeted and time efficient medium to research the latest technology and innovation from the industry's premier suppliers. We will customize an appointment schedule based on your unique profile of interests to connect you with industry leading suppliers best placed to deliver real competitive advantage to your organization.

Appointments are in 25 minute windows and in each case you will be met by a senior level executive for a relaxed, open discussion on how their solutions may be put to work for your unique needs and requirements.

12:00 – 1:00 pm            

Open Sourcing in Main Exhibit Hall in Sebastian Ballroom 

Main Exhibit Hall will be open for free sourcing.

1:00 – 2:00 pm  

Gourmet Lunch, Sebastian Ballroom