29 June - 2 July, 2010
Hotel Le Plaza , Brussels, Belgium
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Main Conference Day Two

1st July 2010

8.00 - Registration And Coffee
Registration And Coffee
08.45 - Chairman's Welcome Address
Chairman's Welcome Address
09.00 - Devising A Draw-Down Strategy To Satisfactorily Disengage From Current Operations
  • Lessons learned from previous operations: how to ensure smooth, seamless and secure withdrawal from the frontline
  • How long does it take to plan disengagement and then transform the theory into reality?
  • Working with your suppliers to organise, consolidate, retrograde and dispose of materials already in theatre
  • Ensuring responsible disposal or recycling of cargo and equipment to reduce your logistics costs and prevent waste build-up
  • Preparing your logistics support for potentially rapid redeployment
09.30 - Increasing Responsiveness And Maximising Capabilities To Support And Sustain United Nations Peace Keeping Operations
  • Defining, planning and coordinating real-life logistics requirements on United Nations peace keeping operations
  • Integrating military support with humanitarian relief
  • Ensuring personnel are trained to meet the challenges of an unpredictable operational environment
10.00 Meeting Cost-Cutting Requirements Without Compromising On Logistics Capabilities
  • Managing the consequences of budget and resource cuts while continuing to provide optimum support
  • Identifying areas for potential cost reduction across the end-to-end support chain
  • Assessing whether outsourcing will assist in the drive to lower costs and provide ROI
  • What technology implementation will be inhibited if budget cuts take place?
10.30 Morning coffee
Morning coffee
11.00 How Can A Performance-Based Logistics Approach Enable You To Proactively Anticipate And Respond To Frontline Requirements?
  • How PBL drives performance and therefore increases the efficiency of equipment deployment to the frontline
  • Ensuring PBL enables you to have enhanced visibility of resource to effectively manage inventory
  • Evaluating how PBL directly increases force readiness and sustainment
11.30 Using PBL As A Foundation To Integrate Your Supply Chain, Dramatically Improve Performance And Deliver Exceptional Value
  • How does performance-based logistics constitute a new approach requiring streamlined processes and procedures to drive supply chain performance?
  • Developing a strong quality assurance programme to measure the success of your PBL initiative
  • How can PBL lead to dramatic process improvement at low cost?
12.00 Military Update: NATO Codification In The Supply Chain to Facilitate The Exchange Of Logistics Information
  • Demonstrating how NATO codification will increase logistics collaboration, interoperability and logistics efficiency
  • Tools, technologies and processes to exchange information reliably and effectively
  • The future of NATO Codification: next steps
12.30 Panel Discussion: Identifying Effective KPIs To Drive Continuous Supply Chain Performance Improvement
  • Selecting appropriate metrics to accurately measure support chain performance
  • How are KPIs an effective way to identify areas for supply chain improvement?
  • Linking performance measurement across functions and levels across the supply chain
  • Analysing metrics to constantly re-evaluate and improve performance
13.00 Networking Lunch
Networking Lunch
15.00 Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea
16.30 Chairman’s Summary And End of Conference
Chairman’s Summary And End of Conference