Sunday

1:00 – 5:00 pm

Optional Round of Golf at the Arroyo Gold Club

6:00 – 8:00 pm

Welcome Cocktail Reception and Registration, Veranda Room

Monday

7:30 – 9:00 am

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 - 10:00am

“Implementing Executive S&OP using Oracle VCP-- A Case Study” 

Case study of a Supply Constrained Global Sales & Operations Planning Process deployment using Oracle Value Chain Planning, Advanced Planning and Demantra. Educate audience on a global sales and operations planning process. Describe key challenges and issues encountered Describe solutions to the issues 

KV Moorthy, Manager – Application Services, Beckman Coulter co-presented with NexInfo Solutions

Presentation on breakout room Charleston F

10:00 - 11:00am

“Supply Chain Transformation”

Undertaking the job of transforming a global electronics supply chain can be risky business. What are the prerequisites that must be addressed in a detailed plan before the journey begins? What are the success factors? How do I get executive “buy in” and support for every step of the journey? This transformation requires expert planning, collaboration, rigorous follow up and precise execution. Learn how one mission critical technology provider made it a success story. 

Dave Harrington, Vice President Supply Chain, Corporate Quality Officer, Stratus Technologies

Presentation in breakout room Charleston F

11:00 - 12:00pm

“World Class Operations Model: ATTACKING COMPLEXITY AND LEVERAGING SCALE” 

1. Learn more about HP’s plan to attack complexity and leverage scale across all HP business groups in the areas of physical network optimization, procurement strategies, and process simplification.  

Sabrina Lin, Director of Supply Chain Operations, Hewlett-Packard

Presentation on breakout room Charleston D

12:00 - 1:00pm

“Multi-Enterprise Manufacturing: Supply-Demand Balancing in Discrete Industries” 

Discrete manufacturers are faced with increased order-to-delivery challenges: product innovations, global supply chains, lowered lead-time expectations from customers, lowered profit margins, etc. To compound these challenges, companies have been losing visibility into their manufacturing operations as supply chain process outsourcing grows. This session focuses on new ways of managing multi-enterprise demand-supply networks and solutions adopted by companies in discrete industries to drive increased responsiveness and agility across the network. 

Nari Viswanathan, Vice President & Principal Analyst, Aberdeen Group

Presentation on breakout room Charleston D

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 - 4:00pm

Targeted Research Meetings in Main Exhibit Hall in Sebastian 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.

4:00 - 5:00pm

“SAP Customer Improves Its Supply Chain Planning and Execution Capabilities” 

For companies to be prof­itable and successful, they must collab­orate with customers to understand their demand and with suppliers to understand their ability to deliver on commitments. When information is shared among these partners, companies can react quickly to changes in demand or to problems in production—without compromising customer-service levels.  Learn how SAP's customer arrived at the decision to introduce SAP demand-and-supply-planning solutions into their landscape to solve these business challenges, while creating a data model to allow consistent planning and reporting across functional areas. They have also taken unique approaches to handling the multi-channel requirements prevalent in the high-tech industry. 

TBD SAP Customer co-presented with SAP

Presentation in breakout room Charleston F

5:00 - 6:00pm

"How to ensure your procurement team adds value and represents more than overhead cost"

The key strategic driver in building an effective procurement organization is quality resources.The ability to find, attract and retain qualified procurement professionals is critical to the success of a high performing team. 

Vanessa Elkins-Rogers, Director Supply Chain & Sourcing, Johnson Controls, Inc.

Presentation on breakout room Charleston E

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; Dr. 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 - 12:10pm

Targeted Research Meetings in Main Exhibit Hall in Sebastian 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.

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; Dr. John Gattorna, Author and Supply Chain “Thought Leader” 

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

1:00pm

Gourmet Lunch and Price Draw, Summerlin Ballroom

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