Main Conference Day Two - 9th February 2012

Gavin Chappell Supply Chain Director, Asda Hear Gavin Chappell's talk on Supply Chain Agility: How Do You Become 'Fit for the Future?' on 9th February. To view the agenda, click here or contact us for a copy of the full agenda.

Oliver Cofler Europe Logistics Operations Director, Kraft Foods Oliver Cofler will be discussing Building European Network Capability to Drive Competitive Edge on 9th February. View the agenda here or contact us to recieve a copy of the full agenda.

Keith Newton Logistics Operations Director, UK, Ireland and Nordics, Kraft Foods Keith had been in supply chain roles in Food Manufacturing for 30 years with United Biscuits, HJ Heinz, Cadbury & Kraft. He has performed a number of leadership roles in factories & wider logistics & supply chain and led logistics best practice for Cadbury globally for a number of years. In 2005 he became Supply Director for Cadbury Ireland and then [read more]

Andy Forbes Head of KFE, Kraft Foods Andy had been in finance & supply chain roles in food manufacturing for 15 years with both Cadbury & Kraft Foods. He has delivered a number of strategic supply chain initiatives for Cadbury across the UK and Ireland focusing on cost, sustainability and service improvement. He recently led the Kraft Foods ‘mega-tender’, effectively integrating the Logistics operation [read more]

Rudy Boogaard Vice President Operations, Tommy Hilfiger Rudy Boogaard will be sharing his insights in a Case Study: Tommy Hilfiger Supply Chain Transparency And Performance Improvement Enabled By Every Angle on 9th February. View the agenda here or contact us for the full agenda.

10.45 Morning Coffee Morning Coffee

11.15 Redesigning Your Supply Chain To Support A Collaborative Approach Philippe Meouchy, Supply Chain Director Europe, Campbell Soup Overcoming the challenge of trying to manage a large and fragmented supply chain network How do you need to restructure your network to support requirements for collaboration? Case study - how Campbell Soup successfully redesigned its network Philippe Meouchy Supply Chain Director Europe, Campbell Soup I have worked in both IT and Supply chain. I have been holding director's position since 1992. I started my career at IBM europe, then moved to Kimberly clark as IT director, I later on switched to Supply chain director in 1996. In 1999 I joined Campbellsoup company in the role of supply chain director, France and quickly became supply chain director Europe which is the position I am currently hol [read more]

11.45 Supplying Tomorrow While Delivering Today Supplying Tomorrow While Delivering Today

12.15 S&OP And People: Cross-Functional Alignment To Improve Demand Shaping and Sensing S&OP And People: Cross-Functional Alignment To Improve Demand Shaping and Sensing

12.45 Lunch Lunch

13.45 Supply Chain Strategy: Transforming The Theory Into A Reality Timothy Hourihane, EMEA Supply Planning VP, Estee Lauder Companies An insight into supply chain transformation at Estee Lauder How supply chain strategy has to focus on supply chain management (resources, capability, integration and order fulfilment) as well as collaboration in order to integrate and apply knowledge, improve planning and increase customer service levels, improve departmental coordination and communication of information Ensuring supply chain objectives can then be set out to achieve corporate objectives Assessing how one global ERP system is fundamental to your supply chain Timothy Hourihane EMEA Supply Planning VP, Estee Lauder Companies Since 2009, Tim has served as Vice President, Regional Supply Planning EMEA at The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC). In this position, Tim oversees responsibility for EMEA Materials Management (coordinating EMEA based suppliers to the global manufacturing sites), Branded Supply Planning for brands like Clinique, La Mer, Jo Malone and Tom Ford Beauty and Third Party Contract Manufacturing. Prior to joi [read more]

14.15 Transformation Within Retail Supply Chains: People, Systems And Commercial Issues No session description available.

14.45 Developing Sustainability Initiatives To Achieve Performance Improvements And Drive Significant Process Efficiencies Across The Entire Value Chain Peter Surtees, European Supply Chain Director, Kimberly Clark Redefining your company's approach to environmental management through the creation of sustainable supply chain initiatives Developing programmes at every stage of the value chain from sourcing to logistics, warehouse management and transportation Establishing performance measurements to calculate process efficiencies and measure the success of sustainability innovations Improving your brand reputation and market position by engaging your customers Peter Surtees European Supply Chain Director, Kimberly Clark Peter Surtees will be discussing Developing Sustainability Initiatives to Achieve Performance Improvements and Drive Significant Process Efficiences Across the Entire Value Chain on 9th February. View the agenda here or contact us< [read more]

15.15 Afternoon Tea Afternoon Tea

NETWORK DESIGNLEADERSHIP DESIGNRETAIL-ONLY THINK-TANK 15.45 Implementing A Successful Network Design Project From Warehousing To Distribution NETWORK DESIGN Mike Graham, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain and Logistics, H-E-B Mike Graham, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain and Logistics,H-E-B Stores A background to the network redesign project: from key challenges to requirements An overview of the complex customer network, positioning of distribution centres and understanding your costs Calculating cost savings achieved by overhauling the supply network, inbound and outbound volumes Mike Graham Senior Vice President, Supply Chain and Logistics, H-E-B Mike serves as the Senior VP of Supply Chain and Logistics for H-E-B, a multi-format grocery retailer with over $17b in sales. Under Mike’s leadership, H-E-B’s supply chain is transforming into a lean and flexible network of store service centers. Through the use of highly sophisticated logistical technologies, the supply chain is gaining visibility into product movement and synchronizing the move [read more] 15:45 Supply Chain Strategy in the Board Room-The Reality: Driving Company Performance, Positively Impacting The Cash-To-Cash Cycle And Ensuring Competitive Advantage LEADERSHIP DESIGN Alan Waller, Professor, Cranfield Evaluating how the supply chain should be represented in the boardroom and how supply chain thinking can be linked to board developments How can functional and business units best be aligned? Determining how national, regional and global opportunities can be captured effectively The definition of emerging best practice: how can we develop best practice in our business? Positioning your supply chain as a driver of growth, profitability and market share Alan Waller Professor, Cranfield 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] 15:45 RETAIL-ONLY THINK-TANK RETAIL-ONLY THINK-TANK This closed door retail-only session will be an opportunity to brainstorm the most cutting edge retail-focused supply chain topics with your peers, the most senior supply chain VPs in the industry.

NETWORK DESIGNLEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENTRETAIL-ONLY THINK-TANK NETWORK DESIGN No session description available. 16:30 The Future Of Your Workforce: Developing Tomorrow's Supply Chain Leaders Today LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Analysing the essential characteristics of supply chain leadership Embedding the corporate vision and ensuring the strategy is backed by solid operational direction Putting in place performance improvement initiatives and development plans What will be the consequences of certain strategic decisions on internal policies and operational processes? Ensuring your leadership pipeline is well-aligned with the entire end-to-end value chain 16:30 RETAIL-ONLY THINK-TANK - Continued RETAIL-ONLY THINK-TANK This closed door retail-only session will be an opportunity to brainstorm the most cutting edge retail-focused supply chain topics with your peers, the most senior supply chain VPs in the industry.

17.15 Chairman's Summary Chairman's Summary

17.30 End of Conference End of Conference