The 2012 Supply Chain Tech Agenda - Bringing You the Experts

Day 1: February 28th, 2012

Presentation: How to Get the Most of Your BI Systems Without Increasing Costs

Brad Mueller - Vice President Supply Chain - Briggs Healthcare

PANEL: Data is at the core of a logistics company. This session will show you how to leverage data to make your company even more nimble, efficient and effective at satisfying customers. 

Part I: Business Intelligence - leveraging your data to stay competitive and forward-looking.

Part II: BI Case-Studies - How major logistics companies are implementing BI and working to maintain data-security.

Kristi Montgomery - VP IT - Kenco
David Fraser - CIO - ISO Ltd.

Sundip Gorai - Practice Head - BI & Analytics (North America) - Hexaware Technologies

Roman Hlutkowsky - Principal at the Hlutkowsky Group
Bassam Fawaz - Managing Principal at QUALIDAS, LLC, and former CIO at Agility Global Logistics [Moderator]

11:15 The Effective Implementation of Mobile Technology in a Mobile Industry

PANEL: Mobility is central to the logistics industry, given its global nature, fast pace and complexity. How is mobile technology helping logistics executives keep-pace in this environment?

Robert Nathan - CEO - Load Delivered
Tim Flucht - VP - Penske
Bassam Fawaz - Managing Principal at QUALIDAS, LLC, and former CIO at Agility Global Logistics
Roman Hlutkowsky - Principal at the Hlutkowsky Group [Moderator]

1:00 Proprietary or Outsource? Cloud or In-house? What you need to know when choosing solutions.

PANEL: This session will give you the tools needed to confidently chose whether your company should seek IT solutions that are In-house developed, outsourced or in the Cloud.

• TTS - a technologically forward-thinking logistics company - recently moved several processes to the Cloud.  Learn their complete decision-making process, what they decided to move to the Cloud and discover how to steer the decision-making at your company

Jeff Vielhaber - VP Operations - TTS

The CIO, transformation change and budgeting - putting your IT department at the forefront of your company’s success

Interactive Peer Discussions

Take advantage of this opportunity to brainstorm with your industry peers about how you can improve the supply chain

CASE STUDY: The role of the CIO: from IT Budget Decision Making to negotiation. What you need to know about the continued evolution of your role as an IT executive in logistics.

Jesus Unzueta - CIO - Sirva

Each table will elect a moderator and a note taker (so that you can take those key points away with you). There will be 5 key questions written on paper that you will need to address for your chosen topic.  Of course you can discuss more elements than what is written on the page!

• Mobile Technology
• Future Directions of Supply Chain Technology
• The Supply Chain, Technology and Gaining Boardroom Approval
• The Use of Social Media in Supply Chain

These will be taking place in the Grand Ballroom, Salon A

4:45 CASE STUDY: IT and Business Strategy - Achieving Transformational Change through IT

Ron Glickman - CIO - UTi

5:20 PANEL: How to Gain Value from IT with Constrained Budgets

Jesus Unzueta - CIO - Sirva
Ron Glickman - CIO - Uti
Amit Gupta - VP Travel, Transportation & Logistics - HCL Technologies
Bassam Fawaz - Managing Principal at QUALIDAS, LLC, and former CIO at Agility Global Logistics [Moderator]

8:30 Day 2: February 29th, 2012

Roundtable Discussions

Join your peers for an 'off-the-record' exchange of ideas. No sales pitches - just open discussion.

Select a topic and join a morning discussion workshop of your choice:

• Disruptive Technologies: what is the next ‘app’ to shake the industry?
• Managing and Cultivating the Human Resource: how to keep people in the process and technology
• The Application of Social Media in Logistics
• Automating Small Business Customers

9:30 Theme 3 - Supply Chain Visibility - Work with and learn from your future customers on achieving end-to-end Supply Chain Visibility

- An exclusive, in-depth session going from 9:00 through to 1:00 with a 1 hour coffee break dealing exclusively with Visibility -

This unique session brings together your major manufacturer and retailer supply chain counterparts to discuss how they are using technology to work with your logistics and transportation companies.

8:45 - 9:15 Presentation: Supply Chain Visibility - The Logistics Service Provider Perspective

Interactive Panel Discussion

Part I: Hear case-studies from your customers on how they are achieving visibility in their supply chains

Part II: Visibility, Technology and Methodology for achieving End to End Visibility

Joshua Bloomfield - GMM Program Lead  - Caterpillar 
Jim Bach - VP Inventory Management - Cardinal Health
Jack Allen - Sr. Director, Logistics and Manufacturing Solutions - CISCO 

Gregory Linder - Director of Supply Chain - True Value Co. 

Jeff Jones - VP IS - UPS

Roman Hlutkowsky - Principal at the Hlutkowsky Group [Moderator]