Conference Day 1: 13 October 2010
Conference Day 1: 13 October 2010
Logistics & Distributions: Gaining control in cost and delivery lead-time
1.25pm
Chairman's opening remarks
1.35pm
Transportation management: Gaining control over your transport cost and delivery timeline to reduce product wastage and increase service delivery
- Selecting reliable shipping partners and different methods of negotiation to decrease inbound transportation costs and increase profit margin
- Negotiating and contracting with logistics partner
- Implementing a process that links demand with transportation planning and execution to achieve greater cost advantage and customer service level
1.55pm
Professional supply chain management – Adding value to the oil & gas industry
- Analyzing the current supply chain in the oil & gas industry
- Exploring at taking control of your supply chain through active management of capital and operational logistics projects, finished product distribution and outsourcing
- A look into the future oil and gas supply chain. What are the challenges and possible solutions?
2.15pm
Insight into AkzoNobel logistics development strategy: How to reduce spends and achieves a positive ROI?
- How to drive LSP engagement to achieve ownership?
- What are the pitfalls in LSP development to enhance LSP capabilities?
- Analyse the different strategies to transform the logistics department into strategic business partners
2.35pm
Chemical manufacturers and transport carriers dialogue: Collaborative strategy to tackle current logistics challenges
- Addressing rising transport cost and ensuring just-in-time delivery to customers
- Shippers’ Perspective: Addressing current challenges
- Explore new strategies so to improve collaboration partnership between manufacturers and transport carrier
3.20pm
Afternoon Refreshments
Procurement and inventory management: Preserving cash flow and improving working capital
3.55pm
Unlocking the value in inventory management – Overcoming challenges in thousand’s of SKUs produced and store in multiple location
- Managing vast amounts of inventory data to translate into meaningful decisions
- Setting metrics and other capabilities to manage and control inventories
- Exploring how storage mediums, warehouse control systems and setting different metrics can enhance your inventory management
N.V Chandramoulin, Head of Demand & Supply Chain AMEA, DSM Anti Infectives
4.15pm
Seaoil Philippines’ Story: Using short term forecast to achieve responsive replenishment
- Is producing in small lots the answer to achieve responsive replenishment and why it may fail
- How to use available data to excel in short term forecast to create an accurate and efficient demand forecast
- What are the best short term forecasting strategies available on market? How can you incorporate that into your own supply chain
4.35pm
Combating rising raw material costs - Cost or quality as the key sourcing and procurement criteria?
- What is more important to you? Cost or Quality?
- Exploring the pitfalls of choosing cost over quality vice versa
- Developing a long term strategy to balance cost and quality to achieve high profitability level and fulfil customer’s service level
4.55pm
Pre Panel Preview- Overview of the challenges and risks faced by the process industry in Asia
5.05pm
Creating a safe, compliant, efficient and responsive supply chain across the process industry
- Creating a responsive supply network with end-to-end planning and execution
- Case Studies: Supply chain operational excellence for chemicals and oil and gas companies
5.40pm
Conference wrap-up session with speakers and chair
Close of Conference Day 1
5.45pm
SCM Logistics Excellence Awards 2009 & Networking Cocktail
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