The Chairman will introduce the themes and main subject areas which will be discussed during the first day of the Summit.

Gene Tyndall CEO Supply Chain Executive Advisers

Get ahead of your competitors by tackling your two most critical transportation issues:  Soaring fuel costs and ever-tighter security requirements.  What can your learn from the experiences of Nokia?

• Best practices in:
• driver screening and training
• cargo security
• routes 
• access to critical points
• What must you demand from your 3PL to minimize security breaches and disruptions?

Nelson Madrid Americas Logistics Manager Nokia

Creating a proactive, demand-driven, value-creating supply chain that optimizes your inventory levels:  Powerful real-world solutions to 12 common process problems that can seriously damage your inventory organization:

1. Incorrect operations planning
2. Inaccurate forecasting
3. Inadequate product specifications
4. Over-planning
5. Ineffective production scheduling
6. Low quality
7. Bottlenecks
8. Long cycle times
9. Product & process problems
10. High costs
11. Substandard vendors
12. Incorrect performance metrics

PLUS:

• Best practices on scheduling and forecasting changes that are key for  downsizing your warehousing facilities and cutting your administrative overhead
• How to minimize your inventory when flowing through advance planning in demand-based operations. 
• Top tips for improved collaboration – internally and with retailers – that will thrust consumer satisfaction to a new level. 

Ashley Hall 3PL Sourcing Manager Intel
David Pieper Supply Chain Principal Hewlett Packard
Richard Sisk VP Sales Avnet Electronics

Lonny Warner VP High Tech Industry Group Menlo Worldwide

Moderator: Sandra Scott Former Director of International Relations YRC Worldwide

10.00AM - 10.30AM: COFFEE BREAK

Collaboration and forecasting:  Learn how to optimize your delivery and inventory levels by listening more closely to your partners

• Expert advice to help you assess – and deploy – demand-driven supply chain performance

• Information-sharing with your partners: Hands-on strategies that generate more accurate forecasting and on-time delivery alerts
• Coca Cola’s best strategies for collaborating with competitors:  Can you still compete for market share even while riding to the same destination?
• Synchronized activities that enable you to minimize excess inventory and avoid stock outages 

Scott Burnette Director National Transportation Coca Cola NA

Close-up on Michelin North America's RFID development program and pilots:  How a world leader in tires has also became a world leader in Auto-ID

• How has Michelin managed to secure a significant lead in the development of RFID technology?
• What were the company’s early RFID breakthroughs, successes and pilots?
• How can you calculate – and enhance – a realistic ROI on major RFID implementations and deployments?

Robert Brescia VP Logistics Michelin

3PL experience:  How much should you pay for?

• 5 proven tactics to ensure you don't pay more than the market rate
• How to secure further cost savings from your 3PL’s without hindering their service or damaging your relationship with them
• How to measure your 3PL performance by taking into account cost and service.
• Best practices on service costs, customer satisfaction, on-time delivery, handling and routing, and systems performance
• Assessing your overall 3PL performance
• How to save money by improving the quality of the service you get
• How to assess a logistics service provider network where there is more than one 3PL involved
• How to measure the cost reduction with an alternative outsourcing project

Ashley Hall Global 3PL Outsourcing Manager Intel

12.30PM - 2.00PM: LUNCH

1. What plans have leading shippers made to face capacity and congestion problems?
   Leader: TBC
   
   
2. How to become your carrier’s customer of choice
   Leader: Robert Brescia VP Logistics Michelin
   
   
3. Best practices for deploying a demand-driven supply chain
   Leader: Thomas Ritter Sr Mgr Traffic & Warehouse Fujitsu
   
   
4. Choosing the technology that delivers total visibility of your inbound and outbound supply chain
   Leader: Rosalie Cmelak Sr. Product Strategy Mgr Oracle
   
   
5. Creating and implementing an effective supply base in China and India
   Leader: Michael Waithe Mgr Supply Chain Modeling & Solutions Intel
   
   
6. Best Practices for assembly and seamless shipping
   Leader: Hannah Kain CEO ALOM Technologies
   
   
7. How to set up a shared data environment that makes your supply chain more responsive – even in times of increased uncertainty and danger
   Leader: Fernando Salgado Former VP - Global Solutions IBM
   
   
8. Order fulfillment best practices: Addressing velocity, flexibility and transparency in a multi-tiered supply chain
   Leader: Alisha Mowbray VP Supply Chain Newark InOne
   
   
9. Building the Case for Supply Chain Performance Improvement
   Leader: Gene Tyndall CEO Supply Chain Executive Advisers
   
   
10. Best practices for incorporating 4PLs into your logistics model
    Leader: Sergio Retamal President San Francisco CSCMP
    
    
11. Divorce is Expensive.  Form 3PL relationships that last
    Leader: Tim Radbourne President Radbourne Consulting

5.00PM - 7.00PM: NETWORKING PARTY

The Chairman will review day one's findings and introduce the areas of discussion in today's sessions.

Gene Tyndall CEO Supply Chain Executive Advisers

Global sourcing options:  Where should you source products that will  make your supply chain leaner?

• Which key factors in your sourcing decisions are simply too important to be ignored?
• Outsourcing vs. insourcing revisited:  What are the current pros and cons?
• Which simple techniques enable you to more easily integrate sourcing strategies with logistics partnerships?
• How easily can you combine offshore manufacturing with onshore fulfilment?

Raymond McGuire Former VP Logistics Saks Fifth Avenue
James Fernandes Owner Fernandes International LLC

Chris Gopal Former VP in Worldwide Operations Dell

Michael Waithe Manager - Supply Chain Modeling & Solutions Intel

Moderator: Patrick Burnson President Burnson Consulting

10.00AM - 10.40AM: COFFEE BREAK

The World may be "Flat", but Logistics Makes the World (go) Round…

• Benefits of transforming to demand-driven supply chains
• Globalization as inhibitor and opportunity
• Examples of what the Leaders are doing…
• Opportunities for the Logistics Provider

Greg Aimi Director of Supply Chain Research AMR Research, Inc.

Take your 3PL relationship to the next level:  Top outsourcing logistics strategies

• What works best when in 3PL contract negotiations to ensure a realistic, mutually beneficial cost structure and standard of service?
• How do you secure a contract that retains your independence, and ensures there’s no danger you’ll become over-reliant on your 3PL?
• Can you reinvent your outsourcing strategies – by knowing exactly what to outsource?

Thomas Ritter Sr Mgr Traffic & Warehouse Fujitsu
John Gray Logistics Director Hickory Hill Furniture
Chris Lennon Senior VP, Supply Chain Solutions NAL Worldwide

Moderator: Gene Tyndall CEO Supply Chain Executive Advisers

12.20PM - 2.00PM: LUNCH

Optimizing the security of your supply chain and transportation systems at the lowest cost

• Top tips to minimize your compliance costs – and how not to pass them to your customers
• How to keep your supply chain safe while keeping your financial statements sound.
• What you are entitled to expect from your 3PL by way of supply chain security
• How to profit from better supply chain management while protecting yourself against the twin threats of terrorism and regulatory overreaction

James Fernandes Owner Fernandes International LLC

Managing Effective Global Supply Chains

Audience interaction will be encouraged. 

The strategies that companies adopt to globalize their operations and meet their business objectives include various approaches, practices, technologies and initiatives.  These strategies and tactics to address global supply chain and operations strategy and execution - sourcing, manufacturing, moving, selling and fulfillment - are driven by the processes, people and technologies that are put in place.

Gene Tyndall CEO Supply Chain Executive Advisers

Chris Gopal Former VP in Worldwide Operations Dell

Fernando Salgado Former VP - Global Solutions IBM