Sunday

1:00-5:00pm

Optional Round of Golf Arroyo Golf Club

6:00- 8:00pm

Welcome Cocktail Reception and Registration, Veranda Room

 Monday

7:30- 9:00am

Buffet Breakfast, Summerlin Ballroom

8:00- 8:50am

Keynote Address, Panel Discussion, Summerlin Ballroom.  

“What Drives a Winning Supply Chain in Today’s Economic Climate?”  

This panel discussion analyzes key trends and best practices from organizations on the 2010 AMR Research Supply Chain Top 25. We hear the first hand perspectives from supply chain leaders within these organizations on what their priorities were and what measures were taken to reach their goals. We explore two key themes that emerged from the group: a re-examination of the benefits of vertical integration and increasing advances in the realm of sustainability. We then establish what recommendations can be drawn from these insights and how they might apply to your supply chain. 

Panelists Include: Mark Vollrath, Worldwide Director of Strategy Systems, Global Supply Chain, Colgate-Palmolive;  Jim Matthews, Senior Director of Business and IT Solutions Group, RIM; John Jarvis, CIO - Integrated Supply Chain Planning Lead, PepsiCo; Swati Saran, Director, Customer Value Chain Management, Cisco; Simon Jacobson, Research Director, AMR Research/Gartner

Moderator: Roddy Martin, SVP Global Supply Chain, Competitive Capabilities International

9:00- 11:00am

Targeted Research Meetings in Main Exhibit Hall in Red Rock Ballroom 

This element of the event provides the most targeted and time efficient medium to research the latest technology and innovation from the industry's premier suppliers. We will customize an appointment schedule based on your unique profile of interests to connect you with industry leading suppliers best placed to deliver real competitive advantage to your organization. 

Appointments are in 25 minute windows and in each case you will be met by a senior level executive for a relaxed, open discussion on how their solutions may be put to work for your unique needs and requirements. 

11:00-12:00pm

“Implementing New Warehouse Management Solutions to Maximize Flexibility and Profit”; 

The Avnet Global Solutions Center represents a significant contribution to Avnet’s North American revenue stream.  Learn how RedPrairie solutions for ERP integration, kitting, and data capture requirements resulted in Avnet’s ability to increase revenue and improve customer service.   Avnet’s global solution rollout including 3PL projects will also be highlighted. 

John McGowan, SVP Operations and Project Management, Avnet Logistics co-presented with RedPrairie

Presentation on breakout room Veranda E

12:00-1:00pm

“Integration as a Better Model” 

As healthcare supply costs continue to rise, providers of care must continually strive to deliver a high-quality of care while improving operational efficiencies and reducing costs.  With roots in the provider side of healthcare, ROi (an operating division of the Sisters of Mercy Health System), has a unique perspective and understanding of the challenges providers face.  Our focus is to work along side our customers to address the challenges associated with the healthcare supply chain with an intense focus on reducing costs, streamlining processes, and improving the quality of care and patient safety. 

Learn how these core area’s have driven ROi to success and resulted in national recognition as well as industry awards.  Highlights include:

• Supply Chain integration and optimization  
• Key’s to driving vendor contract compliance
• Improving safety utilization supply chain principals
• Driving down acquisition costs through buying aggregation events
• Reducing spend and controlling quality through private branding and self manufacturing
• Monitoring performance and setting standards through supply chain metrics management
• “Completing the Connection” – connecting the makers and users of goods

Greg Goddard, Director of Operations, ROi, an operating division of Sisters of Mercy Health Systems

Presentation in breakout room Veranda E

1:00- 2:00pm

Gourmet Lunch, Summerlin Ballroom, Birds of a feather Round Table Discussions

 Set over lunch, these informal sessions are designed to connect you directly with peers in the same industry and department as you for brainstorming, benchmarking and expanding your network of influential contacts in the industry. 

2:00- 3:00pm

“Slotting Optimization: A Warehouse Success Story Yields Big Gains for Company’s Retail Stores”

Slotting occurs every day in all types of warehouses – whether your facility is automated or manual, is case pick or unit pick, has high or low inventory turns, or high SKU turnover, all products need slotting.  Optimized slotting increases productivity, drives out operational costs, mitigates the risk of injuries and improves capacity utilization, in addition to satisfy other customer-specific objectives.  Attendees of this session will hear about specific real world examples of optimized product slotting and gain an understanding of the impact that a good slotting strategy can have on the warehouse.  Proper slotting can achieve benefits such as improved:

1. Productivity
2. Retail labor savings
3. Capital savings
4. Ergonomic benefits
5. On-going maintenance & more

Numerous goals and constraints must be balanced to achieve the results specific to the warehousing operation.  Our speakers walk attendees through a case study on grocery distributor, Smart & Final Stores, LLC, and unveil the big returns achieved after successful pursuit of an optimal slotting strategy.  Technology is the capstone to this session, which showcases the warehouse slotting results. 

Tom Paolucci, Director of Distribution and Karen Korytowski, Operations Manager, Smart & Final co-presented with Optricity

Presentation in breakout room Veranda E

3:00- 4:00pm

“How to use Performance Metrics between Department Managers to improve efficiency and accuracy in a Distribution Environment.” 

Abstract:  “See real-world examples of improvements that can be made in a Distribution Facility when Performance Metrics are tracked at the Department and Manager level.  Examples of Metrics include:  Accuracy, Cost Per Unit to Budget, Cost Per Unit to LY, Departmental Incentive Payout, HR Metrics (Including: Turnover, Late Evaluations, Late Terminations, Late Vacation/Leave Requests, and late Attendance Counseling’s), Safety Meetings, and Housekeeping.  

Sondra McCulley, VP, Operations , American Wholesale Book Company

Presentation on breakout room Veranda E

4:00- 6:00pm

Targeted Research Meetings in Main Exhibit Hall in Red Rock Ballroom 

This element of the event provides the most targeted and time efficient medium to research the latest technology and innovation from the industry's premier suppliers. We will customize an appointment schedule based on your unique profile of interests to connect you with industry leading suppliers best placed to deliver real competitive advantage to your organization. 

Appointments are in 25 minute windows and in each case you will be met by a senior level executive for a relaxed, open discussion on how their solutions may be put to work for your unique needs and requirements. 

6:00- 7:30pm

Networking Drinks Reception

7:30pm

Gala Dinner, Pavilion Ballroom

Tuesday

7:30- 9:00am

Buffet Breakfast, Summerlin Ballroom

8:00- 8:50am

Keynote Address, Panel Discussion, Summerlin Ballroom  

“Integrated Business Planning – Building Transparency of Insights directly into your Demand and Supply planning processes to Sense and Shape Responses In Real-Time...a cross industry view of how our customers are driving profitable demand fulfillment”

Learn how Oracle's Integrated Business Planning customers are able to:

• Align day-to-day sales forecasts and operations with strategic goalsa
• Leverage demand signals to sense actions in the market and evaluate the effectiveness of promotions executed to define promotion offerings in the future
• Evaluate how different scenarios / decisions affect your top and bottom line
• Sense and identify emerging problems and take actions aligned to your objectives
• Create more reliable revenue forecasts and commitments
• Correlate operational decisions with business outcomes

Panelists include: Kedar Kulkarni, Director Supply Chain Division, VTech Communications; Curtis Marshall, Director of IT, Sara Lee; John Gattorna, Author and Supply Chain “Thought Leader”

Moderator: Linda Peel, Value Chain Planning Solutions, Oracle

9:00- 10:00am

“Maintaining Supply Chain Security in These Rapidly Changing Times” 

The economic recession has had dramatic effects on all companies. Businesses have closed operations, consolidated, reduced and reorganized in an attempt to remain afloat. All of these changes have a direct affect on our ability to deliver our goods to the customer in a secure supply chain. In this session we will discuss how the recession has impacted supply chain security and cost-effective measures which companies can take to maintain solid supply chain security. 

Scott Dedic, Director Supply Chain Security, Sony Electronics Inc. 

Presentation on breakout room Charleston E

10:00- 11:00am

“Collaborative Distribution: the Next Major Advance in Supply Chain Management” 

Collaborative Distribution is a revolutionary new strategy that could cut distribution costs for CPG manufacturers and retailers by as much as 35%.  This session will explain how multiple manufacturers and retailers are working together to consolidate orders that ship together from the same warehouse on the same truck.  

Chris Kane, Chief Customer Strategy Officer, Kane Is Able

Presentation in breakout room Charleston E

11:00 – 12:00pm

“Rethinking Logistics In The Context of Demand-driven Transformation” 

Increasing numbers of industry leaders are transforming their supply chains into end to end value networks to be in a position to respond to demand as an end to end network versus a collection of silos. AMR Research’s Top 25 leaders demonstrate that demand –driven agility is a fundamental winning capability in today’s volatile global market. Change happens without warning, and organizations can no longer afford to take months to respond to global changes that impact them in days.

Obviously a big opportunity in being agile is the responsiveness of the transportation and logistics network.

The looming trend is for companies to partner more closely with 3PL’s and even develop deeper 4PL relationships in end to end the network. The challenge in both logistics groups and logistics providers is integration, process and culture. This session will look at best practices ,stop and thinks as companies travel this journey. 

Roddy Martin, SVP Global SC, Competitive Capabilities International and Mickey North Rizza, Research Director, AMR Research/Gartner

Presentation in breakout room Charleston F

12:10- 12:50pm

Closing Keynote Panel Discussion, Summerlin Ballroom

“Key Insights for the Conference”           

You can only be in one place at one time, and with so many excellent presentations running simultaneously there will be many useful sessions you will have missed. We take this opportunity to regroup at the close of the event and draw on the perspectives from a number of high profile attendees from different Tracks to summarize the key insights they took from sessions and networking at the event. This synopsis will round up key themes and winning strategies you can take back to your organization and is a session you won’t want to miss! 

Panelists Include: Jennifer Hughey, Vice President of Supply Chain, Home Care Products, Electrolux; Patrick Burnson, Executive Editor, Supply Chain Management Review; Roddy Martin, SVP Global SC, Competitive Capabilities International; John Gattorna, Author and Supply Chain “Thought Leader”

 Moderator: Nari Viswanathan, Vice President & Principal Analyst, Aberdeen Group

1:00pm

Prize Draw and Gourmet Lunch, Summerlin Ballroom

Stick around for your chance to be one of 20 lucky attendees to go home with a free ipad!