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. (For a more in depth abstract, see page 10)  

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

9:00-10:00am

“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

11:00- 12:00pm

“Market Centric Industrial Supply Chains for the 21^st Century”  

The development of internally supplied and externally sourced solutions to manage industrial supply chains accelerated in the last decade. This presentation will focus on the use of these advancements and the interconnectivity of strategy, systemic analysis, lean, external service company capabilities, and IT technology, in solving several real-world industrial supply chain challenges.  It will look at the critical factors that led to the selection and implementation of these solutions. 

 Scott C. Mason, Former, Vice President Global Supply Chain, Stepan Company

12:00-1:00pm

“BP Lubricants – Optimizing Warehousing in a Campus Environment”

Learn how an $8+ billion global manufacturer successfully developed an integrated, optimized solution to meet its storage and distribution needs in order to support its largest lubricants factory in the world. The Baton Rouge Facility is the largest BP lubricants blending site within the Global Supply Chain, blending lubricants (bulk and package) and proprietary additives for both domestic consumption and export sale.  As volume for this facility had significantly increased, warehousing support had not kept pace.  Reduced storage space, resulting from manufacturing expansion and encroachment, had actually further exacerbated the situation.  Future production growth was limited, productivity and efficiency were reduced due to bottlenecking, and safety concerns began to arise due to the limited space and congestion.  Additionally, third party shuttling and warehousing costs skyrocketed and service levels began to decline as a result of the inefficiencies created in the sub-optimal product flow. A multi-step process was initiated that engaged both internal and external resources.  The approach included multiple phases:data gathering and analysis opportunity assessment  and solution development funding and resource allocation project initiation, implementation and completion  The outcome of this process was a multi-project initiative that addressed physical, system, people and process improvements, resulting in an optimized campus solution.  This solution reduced costs and improved safety, service, efficiency and productivity.  This program became a model for the management of future multiple, interrelated projects. 

Kevin D. Harris, Global Supply Chain, OEM Supply Chain & Customer Solutions Manager Co-presented with Pelyco

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- 4:00pm

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.

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

“Creating Lean Material Flow in Production Operations”

Learn how manufacturing leaders can use lean material flow processes to improve delivery, cost, cash, space, and even safety. Discuss supermarkets, pull systems, timed material deliveries, machine scheduling optimization, cell parts presentation, and more. Understand impact of talent and culture on lean material flow transformation.

Tom Pettit, Vice President Global Operations & Supply, Pentair

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

“JCB Inc. reduces inventory levels, increases service levels, improves fill rates, with the help of a Warehouse Control System using automated storage and retrieval equipment” 

JCB is a world leader in the manufacturing of construction equipment. The manufacturing plant in Savannah GA supports North Americas After Market Business. The Savannah plant ships spare parts to all 50 states, Canada and Mexico. JCB needed to provide same day shipments of parts to customers while reducing inventory levels improve inventory accuracy, improve customer satisfaction, and the quality of orders being shipped. JCB needed to reduce the area the spare parts center utilized to make room for additional manufacturing. The goal was to redesign the parts center into a parts picking machine utilizing the latest in storage and picking technologies. The task was to find a WCS system that would interface with automated equipment and complement the SAP ERP system. In the process JCB was able to: Provide Same Day Shipments Eliminate Order Quality Issues Improve Order Fill Rates and Reduce Inventory Levels Maintain customer satisfaction levels with reduced levels of support Reduce the overall area for the spare parts storage operation 

Michael D. Werner Vice President – North America Customer Support Operations, JCB co-presented with Mike Yezzi, Vice President Business Development, ScottTech Integrated Solutions 

10:00 12:00pm

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.

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.