Education Program
Supply Chain 2020 will tackle key issues in supply chain & logistics. Unlike a traditional conference, the format for the education component of the event will comprise of seminar sessions built around four key themes – identified by the industry as key challenges:
- * Environment – lean and green
- * Health, Safety and Wellness
- * Innovation (technology)
- * Recruitment – finding and keeping the best staff
The seminars will be highly focused, interactive and designed to stimulate questions. Delegates can select one or as many sessions as they like, thus attendance costs are very low.
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MC: David Rogers
- Director, Insync Supply Chain Management, National Chairman SCLAA
ISCM has significant expertise in the development and execution of supply chain strategies, transforming the integration, alignment and functional synchronisation across all supply chain stakeholders. For more information please visit www.iscm.com.au or talk to David at the event.
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Tuesday 20 July 2010 - morning sessions:
Environment - Lean & Green
10:15 am Save Money While Lowering Carbon Footprint
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Tim Herring, General Manager, Finance & Strategy, SmartTrans
A recent report from the Australian Logistics Council (A Smarter Supply Chain, January 2010) states: “Despite being world-leaders in the 1980s and 1990s Australian T&L companies have failed to secure the productivity improvements that can now be gained using existing technologies”.
There are a few thousand companies delivering goods or services with fleets of more than ten vehicles in Australia, but the reality is that less than 1% are using computer systems to optimise delivery scheduling (also called Route Optimisation). This is in marked contrast to other developed countries, such as the USA or Western Europe, where use of this technology is widespread. SmartTrans has been providing solutions in this area for over 12 years and has recently developed its own vehicle delivery optimisation system which links directly to handheld mobile devices with GPS tracking to provide an overall solution for delivery fleets. The productivity gains for delivery fleets can be enormous, leading to a lower carbon footprint and much reduced operating costs. The talk will explain where companies can improve delivery productivity, what solutions can be used and will use the SmartTrans e-Solution® system to highlight examples.
Videos and slides will be used to illuminate the talk.
10:45 am How Green is your Supply Chain?
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Stephen Camm, Managing Director, MEAC Group
How Green is your Supply Chain?” presentation, the objectives of this are to encourage manufacturing, logistics and supply chain organisations to consider undertaking a carbon footprint reduction program but in way that also reduces costs and improves performance and competitiveness.
The topics covered in this presentation include:
- What is a carbon footprint?Why it is important to understand your (company’s) carbon footprint?
- What are the new “boundaries” of a “Green” Supply Chain
- An overview of some of the organisations who set the world wide standards for measuring a company’s carbon footprint
- An overview of the PAS 2050 standard and how to use this to asses your company’s carbon emissions and identify opportunities for improvement
- How to integrate the PAS 2050 process with standard Supply Chain efficiency techniques and technology offerings
- Examples of what leading companies around the world are achieving, not only in reducing their carbon footprint, but also in efficiency gains and improved service offerings
- Resources available for assistance
11:00 am Morning Tea
11:45 am The time for proactive action on Sustainable, Green Supply Chain has arrived!
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Murali Dharan, Global Supply Chain Group
The time for proactive action on Sustainable, Green Supply Chain has arrived!
Climate Change driven expectations from consumers, community groups/NGOs, impending regulations from Governments and your own CSR obligations, demand that we manage the Supply Chain risks proactively, reduce wastage, improve sustainability efficiencies & innovate on this new frontier.
Global Supply Chain Group, with international credentials, has developed a Corporate Seminar on Greening Supply Chain that highlights new strategies, methods and tools to enable you and your managers to understand and develop readiness for this new paradigm. See attached Flyer for more details:
The session will address these vital questions:
Do you have proper Methodologies, tools & techniques to eliminate waste & improve Supply chain in line with Corporate Sustainability programs?
Are you ready for CSR & Sustainability audits in your Supply Chain & Logistics? Do you have verifiable data to support the claims of green house gas reduction activity within your company? What liability are you exposing yourself, your board, your organisation to, without a verifiable record set?
What tools and methodologies do you need to make sure you are covered?
How can you use Green Supply Chain Methodology and tool kit to enhance your company’s products & services? Does going green have to cost extra?
What green supply chain projects are your competitors considering at the moment? When will they disclose these to the industry and media? How will these projects change the industry perception, pecking order and profitability?
How can you establish your company as the leader in green supply chains aligned with CSR while making great profits?
Do you want your employees, suppliers, media and customers singing the praises of your CSR results?
This is a serious effort towards clear actionable plan for transformation to Green Supply Chain!
The style of the seminar is direct, interactive, action oriented and comprehensive, with case studies, to deliver the knowledge, methodologies and tools to prepare your managers for action.
12:45 pm Lunch
Tuesday 20 July 2010 - afternoon sessions:
Risk and Safety
13:30 pm Are you at Risk?
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Adam Saunders, Sparke Helmore Lawyers
Are you involved in consigning, despatching, packing, loading or receiving goods transported by road? Are you aware of your chain of responsibility and health and safety obligations? Under the national chain of responsibility regime all participants in the transport of goods will have some degree of responsibility for their transport to be conducted in accordance with road safety legislation.
The failure to not only be aware of those responsibilities but to take steps to ensure compliance with legal obligations may expose corporations and individuals (including directors and managers) to the risk of prosecution. This may in turn result in significant monetary penalties and criminal conviction.
This informative and practical seminar will assist you to gain:
- An understanding of your obligations;
- Practical advice on how to proactively manage your obligations; and
- An insight into the current activities of regulators, particularly in relation to enforcement and prosecution.
14:00 pm Managing Risk and Supply Chain Efficiencies
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Damian Karmelich – Director of Corporate Affairs, Dun & Bradstreet Australia
Goods and services can represent 70 percent of a company’s costs yet a relatively significant number of firms ignore the potentially large role the procurement function can play in improving organisational performance. In addition, many firms detrimentally impact their operations by forgetting the potential harms that can result from supply chain disruptions and failing to implement appropriate risk mitigation processes. However, top performing businesses understand the impact a purchasing team can have on organisational performance. These firms view the purchasing team as the competitive eyes and ears and commercial conscience of the organisation. They expect the procurement division to continually strive to uncover opportunities which reduce costs, improve efficiencies, enhance relationships with suppliers and mitigate risk.
The key to identifying these opportunities lies in the ability of firms to establish a comprehensive view of the products and services purchased by the organisation and their associated providers. However, only a small number of companies have the ability to complete this form of assessment and as a consequence, wasteful and duplicate spending continues to be relatively widespread.
This presentation will discuss the potential impact of purchasing on profitability and examine how the strategic use of quality data enables procurement teams to deliver effective sourcing and risk mitigation which drives improvements in business profitability.
14:40 pm Afternoon Tea
Recruitment - Finding and Keeping Staff
15:10 pm The Art of Attracting and Keeping High Performing Sales People
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Robert Heaton, Management Consultant, Logica Australia
High performing sales people are worth millions of dollars to you because that’s the sort of sales revenue they can generate. They are disciplined, self managing and excellent negotiators sometimes with appropriately sized ego’s as part of the package.
So how do you set out your stall to attract them? How should your interview process differ and more importantly how can you identify the real high achievers from the BS or worse still, the once high achiever who is now burnt out?
And recruiting them is just the beginning because you are now tasked with ensuring that on one hand you manage them effectively (some can be real Prima Donna’s) whilst also providing an environment that encourages them to stay – and attract other high achievers
In essence there are seven key factors that you should consider both in attracting, hiring and keeping high performers and they change significantly if you are hiring female sales people. In his talk on the Art of Attracting and Keeping High Performing Sales People, Logica’s Robert Heaton will discuss each of the seven factors drawing on his global experiences at industry giants such as SAP and J.D.Edwards. Robert will highlight the successes....and the failures from real situations and leave you with a proven checklist that will without doubt add value to your next sales recruitment.
Risk and Safety
3:45pm A better way to track supplier compliance, cut admin costs by up to 80%
- Nigel Dalton-Brown, General Manager, IPcubed
Tracking and reporting Supplier Compliance has been described as a never ending, tail chasing, soul destroying job. One company has turned the process on it’s head by building a Community of Interest (COIN) of suppliers and buyers for the international exchange of compliance information Because supplier compliance is so difficult to manage, some companies don’t bother and simply hope nothing goes wrong, exposes the organisation to high levels of risk. Other organisations track compliance using excel or databases. It’s a tough job spending hours on the phone chasing expired certificates, getting them faxed in, entering the data into the spreadsheet or database and then starting the process all over again. For suppliers they are continuously asked to send the same certificate to different customers. Come and hear how a COIN network eliminates this wasted duplication of effort by providing an industry platform.
16:00 pm FREE networking drinks on the show floor - for all to attend
Wednesday 21 July 2010 – morning sessions:
Innovation - Technology
10:15 am A Smarter Supply Chain - Using ICT to Improve Productivity
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Rocky Wood, Industry General Manager, Telstra Enterprise & Government
In order to deliver excellent service T&L businesses must build excellent relationships with clients, manage complex execution processes, and effectively manage assets and people. Despite being world-leaders last century Australian T&L companies failed to secure the productivity improvements now available from existing technologies — information that exists today is not being leveraged to increase productivity.
This failure to adapt ignores innovation and new technologies that deliver significant benefits, including the latest generation of Logistics Management Systems, Vehicle Tracking and Monitoring, Real-Time Traffic Information, Routing, Freight Matching, and Wireless Communications that can integrate the entire supply chain.
The most efficient supply chains worldwide leverage real-time information and ensure real collaboration between partners. Impartial industry wide ICT solutions will enhance the industry’s ability to deliver predictable and reliable flows of goods.
Inevitably, the industry must collaborate on agreeing and utilising open global standards for information gathering and dissemination, and both State and Federal Governments must continue to play their part in avoiding regulation that would reduce the economic value of the available enhancements.
10:45 am Innovation & Best Practice in Australia's Supply Chain
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Mark Pearce, Darroch Consulting, New Zealand
Technology Innovation is enabling visionary companies to lead their market by resetting their industry performance benchmarks.
Supply Chains have undergone significant change over the last 10 years and the latest frontier in the revolution is Innovation in Technology as it truly takes hold.
“Technology has been around for some time but it’s only now that its real potential is beginning to reshape supply chains as all the links in the chain are achieving connectivity and the impact will be astounding”, says Mark Pearce, General Manager of DCL (Darroch Consulting Limited), one of Australasia’s leading supply chain and integrated logistics solutions providers.
This presentation will reveal the Innovation in Technology that visionary companies are adopting. These companies also tend to have a longer-term investment view. They implement Technological Innovation ahead of the market to establish and maintain competitive advantage and to future proof the considerable investments in existing supply chain infrastructure.
“In so doing these companies invariably reset their industry performance benchmarks to provide their business with a real competitive advantage for all stakeholders; customers, suppliers and their service providers”, says Mark Pearce.
11:15 am Morning Tea
11:45 am Forming Electronic Supply Chain Communities
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Colin Kempter, Principal Consultant, ECN Group
One of the biggest issues facing today’s’ logistics managers is supply chain visibility. As supply chains grow more complex, the issues surrounding the exact location and disposition of products within the supply chain seem to be growing worse. This situation deteriorates when products have to proceed upstream in the supply chain (e.g. when they are returned or require maintenance / service).
New web-based technologies are now providing businesses with the ability to form “electronic supply chain communities”. These powerful supply chain networks are delivering unprecedented levels of visibility and collaboration between supply chain partners. Web-based software extends the visibility to all stakeholders within the supply chain and can even include the customers of the product.
This presentation by Colin Kempter will provide a concise overview of this exciting new technology. A case study of a manufacturer who has implemented this technology will highlight the path to adopt this technology as well as the actual benefits received on the front line of the supply chain (Note the case study will probably be Philips)
12:15 pm Logistics Operations Driving an Evolution in Software as a Service
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David Sanders, the Bestrane Group
Software as a service (SaaS) is a method of allowing organisations to utilise (and pay) for application software on an „as-required‟ basis without the need for large capital outlays. Typically this means that the software and required supporting environment are hosted „in the cloud‟ over the internet and users are able to gain access via a modern web browser. Recent developments in internet and hosting technologies have made this style of application delivery increasingly available to communities of interest and has the ability to radically accelerate the „time to benefit‟ for these investments. Logistics-intensive organisations have been among the first to turn to SaaS to reduce costs, increase operational performance and improve customer satisfaction. The next evolution of SaaS is social networking for the supply chain – SaaS 2.0. SaaS 2.0 extends the value that traditional on-demand solutions offer by bringing together and enabling collaboration between logistics service providers, supply chain partners and customers. As supply chain processes become more complex, the need for partners to work together, to be more efficient, and to keep pace with the latest legislative requirements for advance information regarding Chain of Responsibility, accountability, and the automation of paper documentation continues to grow. SaaS 2.0, for its part, can serve as a „host‟ to standalone and multi-party workflow-based applications that need to be shared by companies on a daily basis. SaaS 2.0 promises to take the industry well beyond its reliance on standalone solutions and individual transactions. The model delivers a wealth of advantages, including standardisation of documents and data, increased automation of routine functions, increased compliance, performance and easy accessibility to real-time information for all partners. By bringing the supply chain community together, there are no longer any communication barriers between manufacturers, retailers, transportation providers, government agencies and other stakeholders. As a result, when one party generates information or implements a change, that data can be disseminated throughout the relevant members of the community in real time. Page 4 of 7 This collaboration can be leveraged across logistics requirements such as Route planning and execution, transport management and dock appointment scheduling.
12:45 pm Lunch
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