20 - 22 April, 2010
The Hilton Hotel, Dusseldorf

About Our Sponsors

 

Accenture

Accenture helps chemical companies achieve high performance in today's changing world. We collaborate with leading chemical companies and suppliers to develop and execute global strategies, manage complexity and risk and drive innovation. We take an integrated approach that can deliver consistent, sustained business results—both today and tomorrow.

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 176,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$21.58 billion for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2009

    

BDP International is one of the leading privately held freight logistics/transportation management firms based in the U.S. It operates freight logistics centres in more than 26 cities throughout Europe and a network of subsidiaries, joint ventures and strategic partnerships in more than 120 countries. The company serves more than 4,000 customers worldwide. Clients include Bayer, Cargill, Conoco Phillips, Heineken USA, Honeywell, Johnson & Johnson, Marks & Spencer, Revlon, Rohm & Haas, Trek Bicycle, Wacker and others. BDP provides a range of services, including sea, air and ground transportation; lead logistics process analysis, design and management; export freight forwarding; import customs brokerage and regulatory compliance; project and energy logistics; warehousing/consolidation/distribution; and Internet shipping transaction/tracking management systems.

Tel: +32 2 753 0362
Email: info@bdpinternational.be

    

Established in Helsinki in 2006 and with customers in 25 countries around the world, REACHLaw exists to provide a full set of REACH services and timely solutions to its clients in and outside of Europe. Due to the complexity of REACH requirements, the company provides an integral combination of expertise in REACH: legal, chemical safety and business.

REACHLaw has local partners in all its key markets to support its customers: EU Chemical manufacturers, Non - EU Chemical Manufacturers, Importers, Downstream Users and Consortia, to comply with REACH. REACHLaw is a world class REACH service provider that offers the following services: Lead Registrant support, Only Representative services, Consortium support services and SIEF/Consortium strategy. REACHLaw also provides scientific support in performing toxicological testing, chemical identification and characterization of data, assessment and compilation environmental effects and data packages, exposure scenarios and evaluation of hazard classification and labelling.

    


    

    

OM Partners is a software and consulting company delivering Supply Chain Planning Solutions for Semi-Process (chemicals, pharmaceuticals, consumer products...) and Mill Products industries (paper and packaging, metals, floor covering, ...).

AkzoNobel, BASF, Eastman and Tessenderlo Group are just a few of our satisfied customers. With 200 customers and over 400 implementations, OM Partners has established solid partnerships with customers all over the world. 

With an expertise of 25 years, the company has become one of the top players in the supply chain planning market with offices in several European countries and North America. 

“OMP Plus for Chemicals” combines planning, scheduling and optimization modules to cover any supply chain scenario: Network Design, Forecasting, S&OP, Transportation Planning, Reactor Planning, DRP, VMI, Tank- and Jetty Scheduling…

Its revolutionary technology makes integrated demand planning, supply planning and scheduling a reality. It helps you to reduce logistic costs (like inventory holding costs) and throughput times and at the same time improve service levels and customer satisfaction.

For more information, visit www.ompartners.com email: sales@ompartners.com

Phone: +32 (0)3.650.22.11

    

    

Celerant Consulting

"Celerant Consulting, your global consulting partner for implementing sustainable change"

Celerant Consulting improves operational and financial performance. We have over 2 decades experience of delivering successful and sustainable change for world’s leading companies in both industrial and services environment. We identify and analyse your most significant business challenges and work with you to quickly implement improvements. Celerant Consulting is among the Top 5 best positioned Operational Management consulting firms in Change Management. As we change business for good, 90% of our clients say they would work with us again.

Our obsession of results & passion for people is also available onwww.celerantconsulting.com

    

Chemical Marketing Concepts is the global leader for outsourced sample fulfilment and logistics services. Over 50 major manufacturers use CMC to store, package and ship their samples and small revenue orders. We process hazardous and non-hazardous materials in complete compliance with all regulations for both ground and air freight shipments. Special services include FDA and GMP clean room filling, Biocide as well as temperature sensitive products. We have experience working with many categories of specialty chemicals including food additives, adhesives, catalysts coatings, pigments, dyes, resins, solvents and surfactants.

www.chemicalmarketing.com

    

Agility is a financially secure, global supply chain services company with more than 37,000 employees across 550 offices, in 120 countries, generating $6.8 billion in annual revenue. For businesses with logistics needs that demand specific capabilities, resources and specialised knowledge, Agility offer a wealth of experience in specialist sectors including Chemical and Project Logistics.

Agility Chemicals

Agility’s specialty chemicals business is recognised as a global leader in chemical logistics management and service provision. We deliver real value to our chemical and petrochemical industry customers by implementing practical, impartial and most importantly, cost saving supply chain solutions. Agility has a range of freight management and procurement services as well as operations outsourcing and systems capabilities that are orchestrated and augmented by a strong, dedicated solutions team. With both asset light and asset appropriate products to fit the needs of mature as well as rapidly growing economies, Agility is uniquely placed to meet the evolving requirements and challenges of this specialist sector.

    

Transwide is a leading SaaS connected TMS with its European headquarters in Zaventem, Belgium and the US division in Boston. Transwide offers a suite of modular Transport Management Solutions covering the carrier selection, the transport execution and the freight audit processes. Transwide provides its clients with a connectivity platform enabling transport event management to be shared across all trading partners. As part of Wolters Kluwer Transport Services, Transwide has been providing transport execution solutions for almost 10 years with over 150 single logo manufacturers connected to a network of over 7.500 carrier companies world wide.

    

WAM and ORTEMS formed a strategic partnership to deliver and expanded solution set for advanced supply chain planning and optimization.

The WAM/ORTEMS solution provides a broad set of visualization, decision support, and optimization tools that address the unique challenges found in managing complex process supply chains. Over the last 20 years, WAM and ORTEMS have helped extend the functionality of process industry ERP, SCM and MES solutions. Together, we deliver research, analysis, best-practices consulting, benchmarking and advanced supply chain planning solutions to companies in the process industry, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food and beverage, CPG, refining, cosmetics and personal care. The team currently supports thousands of customers in over 40 countries across the globe.

    

GT Nexus

GT Nexus runs the world's only industry-backed, on-demand global trade & logistics portal. Today, more than 40,000 registered users, from over 15,000 organizations use a range of capabilities on the portal to optimize the global flow of goods and trade information from order point to final payment. GT Nexus connects the physical and financial supply chains. This allows buyers, sellers, banks and logistics providers to work over a common platform with a core set of information that supports multiple trade and logistics functions. Customers include LyondellBasell, DuPont, Philips, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Invista, Caterpillar and ZARA (Inditex).

    

Elemica

Elemica was founded by 22 leading global corporations to deliver best-in-class integration of trade partners in the external supply chain for seamless execution of business processes. With more than 2,500 companies connected through the Elemica network and more than $60 Billion of transactions handled annually, our value to our customers continues to multiply. Clients include BASF, Celanese, Continental, The Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, Goodyear, Lanxess, Michelin, Shell Chemicals, and Sumitomo.

As the global leader in supply chain efficiency and performance, Elemica utilizes leading-edge technology and in-depth process expertise integrating disparate enterprise business systems and processes into one unified network across all customers, suppliers and third party service providers irrespective of company size or industry helping companies cut structural costs from the supply chain. Savings are realized through the seamless execution of business processes. Elemica’s sourcing services reduces the costs of direct and indirect materials and capital expenditures providing our customers with a competitive advantage.

For more information, visit www.elemica.com email: lars.vitters@elemica.com


    

Founded in 1966 in The Netherlands, Groenewout is a professional consulting company in Logistics and Supply Chains Management. Our core competence has been sharpened in supply chains optimization and detailed designs of manufacturing-, distribution- and fulfillment centers. We place a great deal of emphasis on both the identification and realization of feasible opportunities. Groenewout is privileged to provide services to numerous (inter)national but also mid-sized companies from all over the world. Our distinctive consultancy services cover the complete scope of logistic and supply chain management including manufacturing, warehouse design, distribution network studies & modelling, sourcing, sales & operations planning, business process management, transportation/benchmarking, assets & facilities and loss prevention & security.

For more information, please visit www.groenewout.com or call +31(0)76 533 0440.

Contact person: Mr. Alain Beerens, Principal Consultant & Partner. Email: Beerens@groenewout.com

    

DB Schenker