Sunday, April 11th

1:00 - 5:00pm

Optional Round of Golf at the Shingle Creek Golf Club

6:00 -
8:00pm

Welcome Cocktail Reception and Registration, Poolside

Monday, April 12th

7:30 - 9:00am

Buffet Breakfast, Sebastian Ballroom

8:00 - 8:50am

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. 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.

Dov Shenkman, VP Inventory Management and Replenishment, OfficeMax; Steve Sigrist, VP Supply Chain and BUsiness Operations Jim Matthews, Senior Director of Business and IT Group, Research In Motion (RIM); George Morrison, Global Director, Supply Chain, Honeywell

9:00 - 11:00am

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.
 

11:00 -
2:00pm

 “Aligning Customer Requirements, Sales, and the Supply Chain”  

The desired result is to enjoy enhanced visibility into supply chain issues, facilitate the order flow process, minimize inventory exposure, synchronize order patterns for logistics productivity gains, and make to faster operational adjustments to address rapidly changing replenishment strategies.  

Steve Sigrist, VP Supply Chain, Walmart Division, Newell Rubbermaid 
 

12:00 -
1:00 pm

“SmartWay Transport Partnership  – A  Partnership to Reduce Greenhouse Gases” 

The issue is not whether global warming is real, the issue is do we all want to breath a little better. The US EPA, carriers, and shippers have put together a volunteer program which working together has reduced CO2, NOx, and Particular Matter from the air. This program “SmartWay Transport Partnership” allows your company to get involved in helping the environment. The success of Sharp Electronics can be matched by any company. It’s easy, it’s cheap, It helps. Find out how you can get involved today.  

Mark Servidio, Vice President – Logistics and Environmental Supply Chain, Sharp Electronics
 

1:00 -
2:00pm

 Gourmet Lunch, Sebastian Ballroom Birds of a feather Round Table Discussions –

Set over lunch, these informal sessions are designed to connect you directly with peers in the same industry and department as you for brainstorming, benchmarking and expanding your network of influential contacts in the industry.

2:00 -
3:00pm

 
“Clement Pappas Decreases Inventory While Increasing Service and Manufacturing Efficiencies”  

Clement Pappas leads the industry in producing the finest fruit juices, fruit drinks, non-carbonated beverages, and cranberry sauces, while providing the best solutions for its customer's businesses. The company's leadership is the result of steadfast commitment to quality, integrity, accomplishment, and innovation. These are the standards by which it builds its business every day and the assurance for its customers that they can always expect superior products, services and support. In order to deliver this, Clement Pappas started implementing Logility Voyager Solutions from Voyager Demand Planning through Voyager Manufacturing Planning two years ago. Learn how Clement Pappas: *Decreased overall weeks forward coverage of inventory *Increased our perfect orders to our customers*Improved real time manufacturing throughput (cases per hour off of the manufacturing lines) 

Craig Ablin, Vice President of Supply Chain, Clement Pappas
 

3:00 -
4:00pm

 “The Challenge of Being Green - How North America's leading companies balance cost control with the need to lower carbon footprint”  

If North America's leading consumer goods companies are to generate savings from "green" initiatives and reduce their overall carbon footprint, they need to figure out how they can meet the challenge of being greener while at the same time not incurring additional costs to do so.  Join us to hear how these leading companies are throwing out some old assumptions and designing new transportation and distribution models.  Discussion will focus on mode shift, model redesign and best practices utilized by America's leading companies. 

Panelists: TBD 

4:00 -
6:00pm

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. 

6:00 -
7:30pm

Networking Drinks Reception

7:30pm

Gala Dinner, Butler Ballroom

Tuesday, April 13th

7:30 - 9:00am

Buffet Breakfast, Sebastian Ballroom

8:00 - 8:50am

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

9:00 - 10:00am

“Building an Agile Supply Chain Network, experience from Schick-Wilkinson Sword”  

Like many other businesses, Schick-Wilkinson Sword (SWS) runs a complex supply chain network globally to provide excellent services with competitive cost to her customers. Recognizing that the global economic situation was evolving and the market dynamics were shifting very quickly, SWS launched a number of strategic initiatives to transform her multiple supply chains around the globe to an agile supply chain network. Such initiatives were:Integrate and synchronize the global demand and supply planning processes; Implement the single instance ERP and Planning systems around the world; Leverage the Global S&OP process to drive the business forward. Years of hard work has delivered positive results in customer service levels, cost improvements as well as working capital management.  

CK Leung, Director, SWS Global Supply Chain, Schick & Wilkinson Sword

10:00 - 11:00am

 “Product Flow-path Optimization & Supply Chain Design”  

Giant Eagle operates and services nearly 400 supermarkets and fuel & convenience stores throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland.  Their supply chain includes thousands of products with varying requirements including food safety, temperature state, service levels,  seasonal and promotional items, and a wide range of supplier procurement options.  This presentation will detail Giant Eagle's approach to modernizing their strategic supply chain planning efforts to create a best-in-class approach to Product Flow-path Optimization & Network Design. 

Susan Carenbauer, Senior Manager of Supply Chain, Giant Eagle, Inc co-presented with Llamasoft and Roddy Martin, SVP Value Chain, AMR Research 

11:00 - 12:00pm

“Riding the Curve – Demand Planning in the Now Economy” 

With the acceleration of innovation in the mobile market for both personal and business use, the importance of effective demand planning has skyrocketed.  Research in Motion (RIM) has recently taken the next step in the journey towards a sustainable, scalable demand management process.  The following topics will be discussed:

• Why did RIM prioritize and execute this program?
• What has RIM learned through this latest step in their journey?
• What does RIM plan to do next? 

Jim Matthews, Senior Director of Business and IT Solutions Group. Research In Motion (RIM)
 

12:00 - 1:00pm

Open Sourcing in Main Exhibit Hall in Sebastian Ballroom  

Main Exhibit Hall will be open for free sourcing.

1:00 - 2:00pm

 Gourmet Lunch, Sebastian Ballroom Birds of a feather Round Table Discussions – 

Set over lunch, these informal sessions are designed to connect you directly with peers in the same industry and department as you for brainstorming, benchmarking and expanding your network of influential contacts in the industry.