Day One

3rd Annual LogiChem Asia 2012 - 27th June 2012
8.00 Registration
Registration
8.45 Chair’s Opening Remarks
Richard Strollo, Managing Director - South Asia, BDP International
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Richard Strollo

Richard Strollo
Managing Director - South Asia, BDP International

Mr. Richard Strollo has over 18 years of experience in the transportation and logistics industry. He started his logistics career in the US and worked in various roles gaining experience before moving to Asia in 1996. Richard has held senior management positions in Indonesia, South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines.Richard is now based in Singapore as the Managing Director for South Asia for BDP [read more]
8.50 Exceeding the demand to deliver value in a volatile economy
Richard Strollo, Managing Director - South Asia, BDP International
The Mayan calendar predicts that the world will end on the 21st of December 2012 due to a cataclysmic shift in the earth’s poles. Whilst the odds of that happening are beyond even remote, a seismic shift in the global chemical industry has already occurred.In 2009 only two of the world’s ten largest chemical producers were based in emerging markets. By 2020 it is predicted that up to seven of the ten largest companies could be based in the BICME countries. This trend has profound implications for the industry and its value chain partners, particularly logistics service suppliers which can play a vital role in helping make global chemical supply chains faster, safer, more agile and more cost-effective to meet the challenges of this new world order.What does this mean for the global chemical sector, which like most industries today is facing a period of uncertainty and economic volatility? In this session BDP will discuss the key issues facing the global chemical industry: supply chain complexity, compliance with increasingly disparate trade, security and environmental regulations, shifting patterns of production and consumption, continued industry consolidation, supply chain visibility, risk management and ultimately productivity and profitability.
Richard Strollo

Richard Strollo
Managing Director - South Asia, BDP International

Mr. Richard Strollo has over 18 years of experience in the transportation and logistics industry. He started his logistics career in the US and worked in various roles gaining experience before moving to Asia in 1996. Richard has held senior management positions in Indonesia, South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines.Richard is now based in Singapore as the Managing Director for South Asia for BDP [read more]
9.15 Managing global supply chain growth in an environment of market uncertainty
Mary Scheibner, Global Supply Chain Director - Process Catalysts and Technologies, BASF
  • How to keep ahead of the cycle to stay on top of a fluctuating, dynamic market environment – shifting from a reactive to a pre‐emptive approach to the supply chain to sustain growth
  • Optimising the use of available tools – working capital, cash flow
  • Building on high‐level strategies of cost reduction, customer service improvement and the speed of getting your product to market
  • Increasing awareness of the differing functionalities across regions and sectors in order to optimise total cost and production
Mary Scheibner

Mary Scheibner
Global Supply Chain Director - Process Catalysts and Technologies, BASF

Mary Scheibner is the Global Supply Chain Director for Process Catalysts and Technologies at BASF. She has over thirty years experience in all facets of Supply Chain Management including materials management and planning, customer service, purchasing, transportation and distribution, and foreign trade. She has experience in both operational and strategic functions as well as project management, pr [read more]
9.40 President’s Keynote: How are Asian based global players competing with long established competitors?
Bowon Vongsinudom, President, PTT Global Chemical
As more and more Asian companies become global players what steps are they taking to ensure that their supply chain is world class? What new technologies are they incorporating and how are they adapting to working with both developed and emerging markets around the world?
  • What steps are Asian manufacturers taking to become global players, and what role does their supply chain play?
  • How are they ensuring that their products are safely transported to their customers?
  • What new technologies are they using to get them to the front of the queue and with what success?
  • How are Asian manufacturers adapting to contrasting markets and what lessons can be learned?
  • What effect will their success have on the rest of the region?
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Bowon Vongsinudom
President, PTT Global Chemical
10.05 The benefits of continual supply chain innovation in Asia
Berthold Alfes, Managing Director and Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Centre APAC, Bayer MaterialScience Ltd
Asia’s rapid development has brought with it an increasing set of supply chain challenges. Here we discuss how manufacturers are tackling these challenges head on and continuing to innovate their supply chain practices. What strategies can you learn to ensure the heartbeat of your global supply chain is in Asia? Lastly we discuss how have the needs of the Asian customer changed and developed and how can new supply chain strategies meet these needs?
  • How has the rapid development of markets in Asia led to new supply chain
  • challenges?
  • Innovate or die: How the fast moving pace of working in Asia is forcing companies to continually reevaluate and innovate their supply chains
  • What can the rest of the world learn from Asian supply chain strategies?
  • How have the changing needs of the Asian customer affected supply chain
  • innovation?
Berthold Alfes

Berthold Alfes
Managing Director and Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Centre APAC, Bayer MaterialScience Ltd

BERTHOLD ALFES has been Senior Vice President – Supply Chain Center for Asia Pacific since 2008. In addition he acts as Managing Director of Bayer MaterialScience Limited in Hong Kong. In this role, he is responsible for supply chain management encompassing order management, operations planning management, logistics and credit management for the Asia Pacific region. As an organizational structure [read more]
10.30 Keynote Panel Discussion: The importance of incorporating local and international best practice strategies into your planning to ensure cost effective and successful supply chains
Niklas Meintrup, Director, Business Services Group Asia Pacific & India, Dow Chemical
Mary Scheibner, Global Supply Chain Director - Process Catalysts and Technologies, BASF
Berthold Alfes, Managing Director and Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Centre APAC, Bayer MaterialScience Ltd
Tharin Walker, Director of Sales, Asia Pacific - Global Logistics Solutions, BDP International
  • In an increasingly global world, how can eastern and western supply chains combine to produce cost effective and revenue generating results?
  • What misconceptions are there in the West about business in Asia, and how can they be overcome?
  • What strategies can Asia export to the West?
  • What strategies work well in Europe that can be incorporating into an Asian supply chain strategy?
  • How important is it on a global scale for the world’s two strongest trade regions to work together?
Niklas Meintrup

Niklas Meintrup
Director, Business Services Group Asia Pacific & India, Dow Chemical

Niklas Meintrup, Director DOW Business Services Group Asia Pacific & India, is leading Supply Chain, Purchasing, Customer Service, Sustainability/EH&S, IT and Lab and facility management. The mission of Business Services is to provide services throughout the Dow organization, leveraging its scale and expertise to offer low cost-to-serve, differentiated market compet [read more]
Mary Scheibner

Mary Scheibner
Global Supply Chain Director - Process Catalysts and Technologies, BASF

Mary Scheibner is the Global Supply Chain Director for Process Catalysts and Technologies at BASF. She has over thirty years experience in all facets of Supply Chain Management including materials management and planning, customer service, purchasing, transportation and distribution, and foreign trade. She has experience in both operational and strategic functions as well as project management, pr [read more]
Berthold Alfes

Berthold Alfes
Managing Director and Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Centre APAC, Bayer MaterialScience Ltd

BERTHOLD ALFES has been Senior Vice President – Supply Chain Center for Asia Pacific since 2008. In addition he acts as Managing Director of Bayer MaterialScience Limited in Hong Kong. In this role, he is responsible for supply chain management encompassing order management, operations planning management, logistics and credit management for the Asia Pacific region. As an organizational structure [read more]
Tharin Walker

Tharin Walker
Director of Sales, Asia Pacific - Global Logistics Solutions, BDP International

Tharin Walker has worked in sales and business development in the Asia Pacific region for BDP International since 2002. Prior to that, he held various operations roles in BDP in the United States, Belgium and Singapore since joining the company in 1996. He has a wide range of experience with global logistics and supply chain activities, particularly in the chemical sec [read more]

11.15 Networking Break
Networking Break
13.05 Networking Lunch
Networking Lunch
15.45 Break
Break
17.35 End of Day One
End of Day One
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