Speakers (36)
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Pierfrancesco Manenti
Research Director EMEA
IDC Manufacturing Insights
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Pierfrancesco Manenti is Research Director EMEA at IDC Manufacturing Insights . Pierfrancesco will bring his experience and expertise to highlight how businesses now need to focus on balancing short-term aims of survival with longer-term plans to reap the benefits of renewed growth and an economic upturn.
In doing so, he will emphasise the importance of operational excellence in preparing for an expected upturn; highlighting the use of OEE ...more
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Simon Berry
Director
ColaLife
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Distributing commercial products in developing countries fulfils one purpose: a commercial one. Will this be acceptable in the future against a back drop of high child mortality and grinding poverty? Sustainable distribution businesses will need to maximise social and environmental returns as well financial ones. ColaLife is encouraging Coca-Cola to engage in 'sustainable distribution' and use the unused space in Coca-Coca crates to carry 'social ...more
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Dr Robert Blackburn
Senior Vice President and Global Head of Supply Chain Operations
BASF
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Dr. Robert Blackburn is Senior Vice President and Head of Global Supply Chain for BASF Group and located in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Additionally he has also led BASF Group's worldwide business transformation program since 2007. Robert is a member of the Global Procurement Steering Committee, which is responsible for managing BASF’s approximate €26B annual spend.
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Andre Veneman
Corporate Director for Sustainability
Akzo Nobel
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Oded Harel
Executive President
Far East Land Bridge
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Mr. , Executive President of FELB.
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Rob Conijn
Manager Order Fulfillment & Assembly
Herbalife
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Gerard ONeill
Head of Marketing, Global Commerce
BT Global Services
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Gerard O’Neill is responsible for marketing BT Global Services to the manufacturing sector. With the movement of goods through the supply chain dependent on the efficient exchange of information between all concerned, the design of the telecoms network plays a critical but little understood role in supply chain efficiency. Ged is the author of many articles in the sector press about leading manufacturers and their use of next generation n ...more
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Cloe Zeng
Demand Flow Director
Electrolux
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Professor Alan OBE Waller
Vice President
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
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Arturo Mazzolini
Vice President in charge of Commercial Development
Valessentia
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The recent quality problems that Toyota encountered on its models, must recall us that the performance achieved in the past is not a great help for the future performances. Everyday, it is necessary to fight to create the conditions that bring robustness to the processes: New product Development, Production Preparation and Manufacturing all along the supply chain. In a context of Time To Market shortening, of high pace new products launch with ...more
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Urmas Ryuto
Sales Director
Ericsson Eesti AS.
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Stefan Reidy
CEO
arviem
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Stephan Sielaff
Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain
Symrise
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Enrico Camerinelli
Senior Analyst
Celent
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Jos van de Vossenberg
Regional Supply Chain Manager for the Central Region
DSM Euroresins Benelux
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Jos van de Vossenberg is Regional Supply Chain Manager for Euroresins for the Central Region and will discuss how the success of Euroresins is founded on partnership. Apart from the obvious and usual measures during a recession like reducing OWC, being ingenious on payment terms and reduce indirect and fixed costs, good partnership with both customers and principals is crucial in minimizing the impact of the economic downturn. Though these values ...more
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Dr.Ing. Dirk Petermann
Head of Competence Center Supply and Logistics,
Continental AG
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Dr. Petermann will provide insight into their supply chain journey and share how they have overcome global supply chain challenges and as a result improved critical KPIs significantly. Dr. Petermann is responsible for the global information technology for supply chain management and all manufacturing systems down to the shop floor for all tire business units of Continental. Prior to this role, he was Head of Supply Chain Management Passenger and ...more
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Artur Pielech
Executive Vice-President, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer
CTL Logistics
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He began his professional career as consultant. Since 2001 Artur Pielech worked for Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, at the beginning as a Senior Consultant, then Managing Partner and finally as member of Management Committee Central and Eastern Europe. He developed and implemented multiple projects aimed at organizational change, cost effectiveness and logistic strategy as well as number of restructuring cases. Apart from Poland he led proje ...more
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Jan Heerema
SCM Solution Principal for EMEA
SAP
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In the wake of a recession and liquidity crisis, the 2010 economic outlook is brighter for those companies that position themselves to capitalize on a rebound. Companies that rise to the top will be those that strike the right balance between cost reduction and performance optimization in the face of volatile customer demand, increased product variability, heightened trade and compliance regulations, and new outsourcing and distribution models. T ...more
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Christian Verstraete
Chief Technologist Manufacturing & Distribution Industries
HP
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Baba Devani
Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing, EMENA
UTi
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In last two decades many companies embarked on sourcing from low cost countries. As a result many companies have significantly extended their supply chain to become truly global. In combination with numerous lean initiatives to reduce inventory levels extended supply chains have become increasingly vulnerable against fluctuations and disruptions. Currently we are seeing a strong disruption in the global transportation market due to a strongly in ...more
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Trevor Ashworth
Director, Food Retail Logistics
Co-operative Group
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Atif Sheikh
Sr Advisor Systems & Procedures
Petrom SA
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In March 2009, OMV Petrom’s E&P Division embarked on a long-awaited drive to finally look into a messy material database, to commit organization resources for implementation of internationally recognized and adopted solution, and along this painstaking journey, revisit company’s supply chain practices that might have a lot to do with the current mess. MDEP (Material Data Enrichment Project) is one of few examples in E&P Mainte ...more
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Hizmy Hassen
Global Supply Chain Director
Coats plc
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Coats operates in a highly dynamic environment with constant geographical demand migration and with a high fashion element in the demand profile. To cope with these challenging needs, Coats has operational presence in over 60 countries and supply in excess of 1.5 million unique SKUs globally. The company globally delivers in excess of 30million delivery lines to our customers. Therefore effectively managing a multi-site supply chain in such a hig ...more
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Clive Geldard
Vice-President Global Retail & Supply Chain
Solving Efeso Group
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Clive is Group Vice-President responsible for the global Retail and Supply Chain practice of Solving Efeso. He has over 20 years experience in logistics, supply chain and distribution channel management, both in operations and as a management consultant. He has worked in complex multi-channel B2B and B2C businesses in the UK, Europe and Emerging Markets with companies such as ASDA Walmart, Unilever, Casino, Ahold, Apple, PPR, The Co-op and BMW. M ...more
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Bob Rossman
VP of Supply Chain
Agentrics
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Mr. Rossman is the Vice President of Supply Chain for Agentrics. Mr. Rossman has worked with many of the world’s leading retailers and manufacturing companies to design and implement collaborative business processes to drive improvements in the supply chain such as: Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR), Collaborative Promotions Management, Supplier Performance Management, Vendor Managed Inventory and Demand Driven R ...more
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Farzin Mirmotahari
IFC/World Bank Group
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Mike Loughrin
Director, Lean and Six Sigma Programmes
ISCEA
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Alain Baeyens
Lead Buyer, Global Procurement
Solvay
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Alistair Hill
Director Procter & Gamble Western Europe Supply Network Solutions
Procter & Gamble
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Alistair is currently responsible for the supply network systems strategy, implementation and day-to-day operations of Procter & Gamble’s WE retail, Global Prestige and Global Salon Professional businesses. Alistair has amassed 17 years of supply network IT experience working in all areas of the supply network from material supply through manufacturing and distribution to customer integration. He regularly lectures at Universities ...more
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Dr John Harhen
Director
Orbsen Consulting
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John is a director of Orbsen Consulting and has clients who are global leaders in the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, Premium Drinks sector, Life Sciences Distribution and Private Equity
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George C Jr. Rimnac
Vice President, Chief Technology Officer - Global Infrastructure
W.W. Grainger
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George C. Rimnac, Jr. was named Vice President, Chief Technology Officer – Global Infrastructure in February 2010. He is responsible for Grainger’s global information technology platform which enables the company to address customers’ needs efficiently and effectively. In addition, he oversees the enterprise systems’ worldwide strategy and development. Mr. Rimnac joined Grainger in 1978 and has held increasingly respon ...more
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Thomas Danner
Managing Director, responsable for system automation, Board Member of the Stocklin Group
Stöcklin Group
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Economic warehouse processes are closely bound on the objectives of the business model such as goods availability, stock turnover or goods received and issued performance. To achieve the economically efficiency it’s key that such goals can be implemented with the lowest possible costs. If those perspectives are reached, the storage performance and the cost are in line, the storage supports the business model in an optimal way. Thereby an ov ...more
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allan waller
Elupeg
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Gergo Elek
Head of Procurement
National Instruments
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Douglas Kent
Host
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