Channel Management Strategy and Supply Chain Optimisation

08.30 Registration and Welcome Coffee Registration and Welcome Coffee

09.00 Chairman’s Opening Statement Alan Waller, OBE, Visiting Professor, International Supply Chain Management, Cranfield School Of Management Chairman’s Opening Statement Alan Waller OBE, Visiting Professor, International Supply Chain Management, Cranfield School Of Management Alan G Waller is Vice-President for Supply Chain Innovation at the International Consultancy Solving Efeso. He is also Visiting Professor in International Supply Chain Management at Cranfield Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management, International President of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, Chairman of the European Logistics Users Providers and Enablers Group (ELUPEG), [read more]

09.15 How can you deliver more for less? Gavin Chappell, Supply Chain Director, Asda Amidst the on-going Euro-Crisis how do you sweat what you’ve got with smaller investment? Reduce lead time Fully integrate physical assets Collaborate Use market uncertainty and shortage of investment to decrease exclusivity and increase sharing – data, storage, transport Take an everyday low cost route approach Go beyond recognition to practically implement ways in which to develop positive and rewarding relationships Gavin Chappell Supply Chain Director, Asda Gavin is currently Supply Director at Asda responsible for leading its Supply Chain Transformation programme as well its Supply function. Gavin recently joined Asda, after 6 years as Supply Chain Director at Boots the Chemist, where he led 2 major change programmes aimed at improving on shelf availability through major re-engineering of the end to end Supply Chain processes at Boots. This culminat [read more]

09.45 Successfully making the transition from pockets of collaboration to collaboration throughout the end to end supply chain Peter Surtees, European Supply Chain Director, Kimberly-Clark Delivering tangible impact, return and delivery on cost through joint initiatives Fostering higher levels of trust between customer and supplier How do we align the same corporate ideas and directions? How do we influence wider profit cycle impact? Need a bigger vision How can true end to end collaboration be achieved? Need to exchange relevant data effectively – improve service, inventory, delivery time, visibility, KPIs, benchmark costs, optimising transport, warehousing, optimising skills Collaboration is going to be an evolution. Need to further optimise internally. True end-to-end with supplier and customers is ultimate goal What are the barriers to true end-to-end collaboration with customers and suppliers Peter Surtees European Supply Chain Director, Kimberly-Clark

10.15 Supply chain optimisation case study: Integrate flow controls and boost visibility to improve cost base John Marsden, Group Logistics Development Director, Unilever Supply chain optimisation case study: Integrate flow controls and boost visibility to improve cost base John Marsden Group Logistics Development Director, Unilever

10.45 Coffee, Networking and Speaker’s Corner Coffee, Networking and Speaker’s Corner

11.15 Case study: Optimising retail inventory management by adopting a more responsible collaborative style between supplier and retailer Calum Lewis, Operations Director, Lego How can the supply chain be more responsive? What data can be used to better inform decisions? Can you actually establish the ROI rewards and tangible benefits? Implement scale to synchronise demand with supply The impact of commercial factors on planning A review of recent case studies and the challenges and opportunities offered by collaboration to improve the management of inventory in retail Calum Lewis Operations Director, Lego Calum has been developing and managing supply chains in Consumer Goods and Retail sectors for over 20 years. With broad experience across demand planning, Sales & Operations Planning, distribution, procurement and systems development, both in line management and in consultancy, he has successfully transformed financial and operational performance in a number of businesses by develo [read more]

11.45 CASE STUDY: How do you design an ultra-low cost business model and implement the supply chain within it most effectively? Petri Jarvinen, Director, Supply Chain Strategic Programmes, Nokia CASE STUDY: How do you design an ultra-low cost business model and implement the supply chain within it most effectively? Petri Jarvinen Director, Supply Chain Strategic Programmes, Nokia Summary Supply Chain leader with strategic and operational experience at global/regional level and at operating company level in two leading companies in FMCG (Unilever) and Hi Tech Electronics (Nokia) industrIes experience in managing business change from country operations to regional/global operations and implementing regional/global objectives, operating models and process model [read more]

12.15 Lunch and Networking Lunch and Networking

Stream AStream B Collaboration case studies Stream A Collaboration case studies Cost reduction and brand management strategies Stream B Cost reduction and brand management strategies

Stream A Collaboration case studiesStream B Cost reduction and brand management strategies 13.30 Case Study: How to drive a collaborative partnership, what does and doesn’t work? Stream A Collaboration case studies Ben Reardon, Head of Logistics, Abel & Cole Case Study: How to drive a collaborative partnership, what does and doesn’t work? Ben Reardon Head of Logistics, Abel & Cole 13.30 Reserved for Kraft Stream B Cost reduction and brand management strategies Daniela Moroianu, Load Control Centre Manager, Kraft Foods Europe Reserved for Kraft Daniela Moroianu Load Control Centre Manager, Kraft Foods Europe I am Romanian, I started my career with Kraft Foods in 1999 in Marketing and progressed from entry level until brand management. In 2002 I moved to logistics as a Log Ops Manager in Kraft Foods Romania, then 2 years later I took over increased responsibilities as Customer Service & Logistics Manager and became part of the Romanian Board of Management (I had this role for 5 years, d [read more]

Stream A Collaboration case studiesStream B Cost reduction and brand management strategies 14.00 Optimising downstream collaboration with customers Stream A Collaboration case studies Rozanne Drost, Change Project Manager, PepsiCo Optimising downstream collaboration with customers Rozanne Drost Change Project Manager, PepsiCo 14.00 Simplifying automation processes to deliver increased cost reduction Stream B Cost reduction and brand management strategies Alberto Madariaga Perez, Logistics Director, Eroski Simplifying automation processes to deliver increased cost reduction Alberto Madariaga Perez Logistics Director, Eroski

14.30 Refreshments & Networking Refreshments & Networking

15.00 Roundtables Alan Waller, OBE, Visiting Professor, International Supply Chain Management, Cranfield School Of Management 1. Moving from leadership OF the supply chain to BY the supply chain – using a business model that leverages supply chain capabilities and vice versa Professor Alan Waller OBE, Visiting Professor in International Supply Chain Management, Cranfield School Of Management 2. Understanding the true value of efficient, quality customer segmentation Reserved 3. Making horizontal collaboration work – what added value is needed? Reserved 4. Planning and managing transport in a collaborative way - how do you combine transportation flows across multi-markets? Reserved Alan Waller OBE, Visiting Professor, International Supply Chain Management, Cranfield School Of Management Alan G Waller is Vice-President for Supply Chain Innovation at the International Consultancy Solving Efeso. He is also Visiting Professor in International Supply Chain Management at Cranfield Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management, International President of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, Chairman of the European Logistics Users Providers and Enablers Group (ELUPEG), [read more]

16.00 Chairman’s Summary Chairman’s Summary

16.15 Close of Conference Close of Conference