Main Conference Day Two:

Thursday 19th April, 2012

With 2012 underway, the chemical industry supply chain is under the spotlight as the need to be pre-emptive in your approach increases in the face of continued market volatility.

Boosting end to end efficiency, managing and reducing complexity and increasing flexibility and responsiveness are the key to supply chain optimisation, but add in the capacity coming onstream from emerging markets this year, together with the threat of Eurozone economic crisis, and never before has the role of the supply chain been more valuable and pivotal in making a difference to both the bottom and top line in the eyes of the global organisation setup.

Working with the Advisory Board and the most senior executives from the chemical supply chain, the 2012 agenda hits the heart of the chemical community needs by delivering global transformation projects, strategic risk management strategies, and practical takeaways from every session so that you have a proven, concrete set of ideas and solutions that you can implement back in your office.

Optimising Supply Chain Flexibility and Visibility to Better Manage Uncertainty in a Volatile Market

8:00 Registration and Coffee

Registration and Coffee

8:30 Opening Remarks from the Chairman

Roger Moore, Customer Services Manager, Styrolution

Opening Remarks from the Chairman

Roger Moore

Customer Services Manager, Styrolution

Roger Moore has more than 40 years experience in a variety of supply chain and logistic management roles with major producers in the European chemical industry. After commencing his career with Procter and Gamble, in 1979 the opportunity came to move to Dow Chemical in the UK . Later assignments took him to France and then Switzerland. Roger returned to the UK in 1990. In 1994 he moved to The Neth [read more]

8:45 Keynote Address – US and Global Focus - Managing Global Supply Chain Growth in an Environment of Market Uncertainty

Mary Scheibner, Global Supply Chain Director, 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

Global Supply Chain Director, BASF

9:15 Global Supply Chain Perspectives: Capitalising on Natural Resources and Technology to Improve Global Collaboration and Open Up New Revenue Streams

Sukumar Narasimhan, Senior Vice President Supply Chain, Reliance Industries Ltd

• Providing the tools needed to penetrate global markets
• Assessing global market transformation and it’s impact upon the European chemical supply chain
• Expanding operations across emerging markets – what tools do I need to penetrate the market?
• Overcoming infrastructure and distribution challenges
• Positioning emerging markets as the key to long-term sustainable growth

India Case Study: Sukumar Narasimhan, Senior Vice President Supply Chain, Reliance Industries Ltd

Sukumar Narasimhan

Senior Vice President Supply Chain, Reliance Industries Ltd

Currently Sr. Vice President, Supply Chain with Reliance Industries Limited, India’s Largest Private Sector enterprise, Sukumar has close to three decades of experience handling different segments of the Supply Chain both at the Operational & Strategic level in firms from diverse industry segments. Beginning his career with the Public Sector HINDUSTAN COPPER, Sukumar has worked thr [read more]

10:45 Networking Coffee

Networking Coffee

11:15 Panel Discussion: Chemical Supply Chain Management – The Outlook for 2012 and Beyond

Makarand Inamdar, General Manager - Supply Chain Management, Reliance Industries Ltd
Andreas Claussen, Vice President Supply Chain Network Europe, BASF
Guillermo Fumero, Head of Supply Chain TLP, Clariant International
Bob Shellman, CEO and President, Odyssey Logistics

New capacity in the Middle East and China is coming upstream next year – how is this going to impact the European market but also the global one?

What are the threats, opportunities and challenges for European chemical companies?
What needs to be done to remain competitive?
Addressing difficult questions: do you balance the inventory or do you balance flexibility in production? Can you adopt the specialty approach in bulk chemicals in light of new capacity challenges posed by the ME and China?

Managing uncertainty through increased SC flexibility – striking the right balance between not being too slow to cut back when needed and not being too slow to manage the upsurge

Addressing current global and European infrastructure challenges – how to overcome both congestion and bottlenecks?
Addressing asset limitations and the anticipated shortage of qualified personnel

Enhancing sustainability through the chemical supply chain

What does the future hold for the chemical supply chain and what do you need to do to stay competitive

How do you manage your inventory and working capital during market uncertainty?

Makarand Inamdar

General Manager - Supply Chain Management, Reliance Industries Ltd

Andreas Claussen

Vice President Supply Chain Network Europe, BASF

Guillermo Fumero

Head of Supply Chain TLP, Clariant International

Bob Shellman

CEO and President, Odyssey Logistics

Robert Shellman is chief executive officer and president of Odyssey Logistics &Technology Corporation. As the OL&T founding executive, Shellman identified early on that the complexity and inefficiency of global logistics in the process industry inhibited the sector's ability to improve supply chain effectiveness. His vision for a solution to this strategic challenge [read more]

12:15 Chemical Giants - Are you Ready for Change?

Richard Holmes, Partner, Lodestone Management Consultants
Kai Schroeder, Managing Consultant, Lodestone Management Consultants

As the pressure of another global economic downturn looms large - is your organisation ready for change?

Market and economic drivers
Competitive pressures - Europe in a squeeze from East and West
Restructuring - mergers, acquisitions, divestments and consequences for your global operations
Are you ready for change - the 10 point plan for global supply chain leadership

Richard Holmes

Partner, Lodestone Management Consultants

Kai Schroeder

Managing Consultant, Lodestone Management Consultants

12:45 Integrated Business Planning – Is this the Next Generation S&OP?

Christian Backaert, European Supply Chain Manager, Solvin, Solvay

• Implementing new processes and support systems that boost demand prediction in both stable and unstable markets
• Improving forecasting accuracy of customer demand to enhance S&OP and inventory management
• Taking S&OP to the next level of core strategic thinking – push driven to demand driven
• Developing ad-hoc / needs driven strategies that fit your individual business

Christian Backaert

European Supply Chain Manager, Solvin, Solvay

November 2004-… European Supply Chain Manager:

Responsible for planning, logistics, transportation, packaging and order processing activities for PVC production in Europe.
Management of a team of 25 persons in europe
Development and implementation of S&OP structure within Solvin.
Implementation of service segmentation approach

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13:15 Networking Lunch

Networking Lunch

Breakout Session 1Breakout Session 2

14:15 How Business Process Management Fosters Efficiency and Streamlines Supply Chains

Breakout Session 1

Vincent Gauthier, Project Manager, INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe

• Business Process Management is an integral part of any improvement activity within Ineos Olefins & Polymers
• A BPM tool is being populated across the business capturing detailed process descriptions and procedures. It is now the one stop shop place for knowledge management and documentary control
• Case study: The export process from order release to vessel departure, including communication with Freight Forwarders, is being reviewed with the help of BPM. The methodology quickly highlighted areas for improvement and enabled cost reduction.

Vincent Gauthier

Project Manager, INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe

Vincent is Project Manager in the Supply Chain of INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe. He specialized in the management of complex projects ranging from re-engineering to SAP implementations. He is Electrical and Mechatronic engineer, 47, graduated from Universtié Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Belgium. Vincent works in the pet-chem indus [read more]

14:15 Case Study: Increasing Supply Chain Transparency via Integrated Business Management (= extended S&OP)

Breakout Session 2

Roger Kerckhoffs, Global Business Integration Manager, DSM

• Optimal transparency of your supply chain via a well-functioning S&OP-process
• Linking together sales-planning, production-capacity-management, supply chain planning and your financials
• Engaging all stake-holders to ensure that the right decisions are made in a timely manner
• Making S&OP the leading governance model for managing the business unit
• Extending S&OP to Integrated Business Management - a journey
• Ensuring constant forward monitoring of a changing environment and ensuring constant adaption to new circumstances
• Forecasting visibility to average out the big swings in an indeterminate environment
• Increasing the flexibility of your inventories

Roger Kerckhoffs

Global Business Integration Manager, DSM

Global Business Integration Manager Roger Kerckhoffs has 25 years of experience in the international process-industry. He has worked for companies active in commodity-chemicals, specialty chemicals, food and pharma. He has held strategic and operational positions in Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Logistics and Purchasing, leading teams of up to 100 people. In his current assignment he is [read more]

14:55 Changeover

Changeover

Breakout Session 3Breakout Session 4

15:00 Successfully Managing Complexity and Reducing Complexity in the SC

Breakout Session 3

• What tried and tested strategies have reduced the number of SKUs, customers, vendors and raw materials to take unnecessary cost out of the supply chain?
• Overcoming creativity limitations to apply proposals of openness
• Reducing resilience by connecting the whole supply chain to understand the major complexities and deliver solutions

15:40 Networking Coffee

Networking Coffee

16:10 Executing Supply Chain Strategy as Key to Improving Efficiencies

Marc Van Der Veen, European Logistics Director, Dow Corning

Executing Supply Chain Strategy as Key to Improving Efficiencies

Marc Van Der Veen

European Logistics Director, Dow Corning

16:40 Talent Management Focus: How to develop the Chemical and Agro Chemical Supply Chain Leaders of the Future

Peter Devos, Supply Chain Competence Director, Monsanto
Kristof Truyens, EMEA HR Director, Monsanto

• What are the trends in HR in terms of future talent & people development?
• Should we count on cheaper Supply Chain talent from Asia? Is it really cheaper?
• How does Monsanto make the supply chain sexier to internal & external candidates?
• Attracting internal personnel and changing the mind-set into that of the supply chain?

Peter Devos

Supply Chain Competence Director, Monsanto

Kristof Truyens

EMEA HR Director, Monsanto

17:10 Chairman’s Summary and Close of Conference

Chairman’s Summary and Close of Conference

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Main Conference Day Two:

Thursday 19th April, 2012

Roger Moore Customer Services Manager, Styrolution

Mary Scheibner Global Supply Chain Director, BASF

Sukumar Narasimhan Senior Vice President Supply Chain, Reliance Industries Ltd

Makarand Inamdar General Manager - Supply Chain Management, Reliance Industries Ltd

Andreas Claussen Vice President Supply Chain Network Europe, BASF

Guillermo Fumero Head of Supply Chain TLP, Clariant International

Bob Shellman CEO and President, Odyssey Logistics

Richard Holmes Partner, Lodestone Management Consultants

Kai Schroeder Managing Consultant, Lodestone Management Consultants

Christian Backaert European Supply Chain Manager, Solvin, Solvay

Vincent Gauthier Project Manager, INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe

Roger Kerckhoffs Global Business Integration Manager, DSM

Marc Van Der Veen European Logistics Director, Dow Corning

Peter Devos Supply Chain Competence Director, Monsanto

Kristof Truyens EMEA HR Director, Monsanto