Logichem 2017 (past event)
28 - 30 March, 2017
Mövenpick Amsterdam
44 (0) 20 7368 9588
Day 2 - Wednesday 29 March 2017
08:00 - 08:45 Registration and welcome coffee
08:45 - 08:50 Welcome Remarks
Gemma Burns, Conference Director,LogiChem 2017
08:50 - 09:00 Chairman`s opening adress
09:00 - 09:50 CASE STUDY REVOLUTION: Customer Centricity: How to optimise the service you provide in order to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty
As VP of the Global Supply Chain Christopher’s main responsibility is to lead global integrated planning/scheduling, customer service, logistics and quality administration across the Chemtura enterprise.
- End-to-end strategic vison across all functions: What’s where? Is it in the right place, in the right quantities and the correct time?
- How to set a service level agreement between SC functions
- What is the SCs unique value proposition? How can it help other functions improve and hit targets?
- How to integrate suppliers ERP systems across all functions
- How to harmonise SC across regions
09:50 - 10:10 CASE STUDY PRESENTATION: How to strengthen internal relationships between planning, logistics, customer services, finance and the businesses: Harmonising processes and tools across functions in order to generate one number set
- End-to-end strategic vison across all functions: What’s where? Is it in the right place, in the right quantities and the correct time?
- How to set up an Integrated Business Planning
- What is the SCs unique value proposition? How can it help other functions improve and hit targets?
- How to integrate suppliers ERP systems across all functions
- How to visualize the data
10:10 - 10:30 CASE STUDY PRESENTATION: Horizontal integration – A paradigm shift from product centric to customer centricity
10:30 - 11:10 Morning networking break
11:10 - 11:50 ALL STAR PANEL: Transforming the industry with innovation: Is technology shrinking or enlarging the world?
Interested in the impact of digitalisation? Please attend our focus day on Digitalisation in the Supply Chain for in-depth coverage of this rapidly expanding field.
- How is digitalisation poised to improve end-to-end visibility?
- How to ensure consistency and transparency of data throughout the entire end-to-end supply chain
- Analysing opportunities and challenges of in-house software development vs. off the shelf software providers
- Trends for digital ordering in the chemical industry: What are the best smart ordering tools?
- How can you best use digitalisation irrespective of your company’s size?
11:50 - 12:50 DRILL DOWN ROUND TABLES ON TOPICS ACROSS THE SUPPLY CHAIN
Speakers:
Jan Roed Head of Global Logistics Borealis
Ralf Lemmerz Vice President Order Management Covestro
Maximo Martinez Avila Supply Network Innovation Center Research Manager Procter & Gamble
Stefan Ritschel Europe Head of Supply Chain Management Industrial Petrochemicals BASF
Lars J.T. Droog Supply Chain & General Affairs Tosoh
Arnaud Backbier Head of Supply Chain Smit & Zoon
Joris Jellema Global Head of Supply Chain Givaudan
Pablo Nosti Fernández Logistics Manager EMEA and Global Logistics Enablement Leader Dupont
Cindy Jooren Manager Supply Chain Center of Excellence EMEA and AP Eastman Europe
Jan Roed Head of Global Logistics Borealis
Ralf Lemmerz Vice President Order Management Covestro
Maximo Martinez Avila Supply Network Innovation Center Research Manager Procter & Gamble
Stefan Ritschel Europe Head of Supply Chain Management Industrial Petrochemicals BASF
Lars J.T. Droog Supply Chain & General Affairs Tosoh
Arnaud Backbier Head of Supply Chain Smit & Zoon
Joris Jellema Global Head of Supply Chain Givaudan
Pablo Nosti Fernández Logistics Manager EMEA and Global Logistics Enablement Leader Dupont
Cindy Jooren Manager Supply Chain Center of Excellence EMEA and AP Eastman Europe
These informal subject-specific roundtables give you a unique opportunity to drill down into the details of an issue by probing the knowledge and expertise of industry market leaders. Each roundtable is designed for you to meet like-minded peers and source practical solutions collaboratively.
Eastman Europe
- e-Transactions in the chemical industry: Blessing or curse from the customers’ perspective?
- Ralf Lemmerz, Vice President Order Management, Covestro
- To insource or outsource? Where do you draw the line between integration and ownership?
- Jan Roed, Head of Global Logistics, Borealis
- How to achieve sustainability through collaboration for co-modality: A new intermodal network approach from FMCG
- Maximo Martinez Avila, Supply Network Innovation Center Research Manager, Procter & Gamble
- An industry wish for collaboration: How to achieve full collaboration in a world where certain stakeholders benefit from intransparency
- Lars J.T. Droog, Supply Chain & General Affairs, Tosoh
- How to align your logistics service offering with a portfolio of diverse customers and market segments
- Arnaud Backbier, Head of Supply Chain, Smit & Zoon
- Where does customer service fit best: Supply chain, sales or commercial?
- Joris Jellema, Global Head of Supply Chain, Givaudan
- How to strengthen relationships with your customers: Enhancing collaboration in order to streamline interactions
- Stefan Ritschel, Europe Head of Supply Chain Management Industrial Petrochemicals, BASF
- The importance of global CoEs: How setting up CoEs contribute to a successful supply chain
- Pablo Nosti, Logistics Manager EMEA and Global Logistics Enablement Leader, Dupont
- How does the creation of separate Business Process Optimisation function within the supply chain help to facilitate lean and six sigma?
- Cindy Jooren, Manager Supply Chain Center of Excellence EMEA and AP, Eastman Europe
Cindy Jooren
Manager Supply Chain Center of Excellence EMEA and APEastman Europe
12:50 - 14:00 Networking lunch
Choose your afternoon track or sign up to a creative boardroom – limited places available.
STREAM A – Embedding Process Excellence, Innovation & Safety into SMC
14:00 - 14:20 CASE STUDY PRESENTATION: How can supply chain innovation help reduce costs and ensure high profit margins?
Vincenzo has headed several departments, such as procurement, road and sea bulk logistics, and the production planning of all plants and business for Versalis. He has integrated these responsibilities with the processes of econometrics of the production models with a proxy to maximizing the Gross Contribution Margin. He has managed the IT projects aimed at centralizing the logistic processes in Versalis spa achieving certified results compliant with saving over 40 M€/year in the last seven years on logistic costs, and introducing the concept of systematic optimization of the integrated Gross Contribution Margin among various businesses working on 70% of variable costs in Versalis and 100% of revenues.
- The use of operational excellence and lean transformation to reduce costs
- Frugal innovation: How can we do more with less?
- How can servitization help to increase profit margins? Learn from real life examples
- How to be innovative when cost pressure is high
STREAM B – Advanced Forecasting, S&OP and Risk Management
14:00 - 14:20 CASE STUDY PRESENTATION: How to strengthen forecasting abilities in order to enhance supply and demand planning capabilitiesA resourceful leader recognised for creating transformational change in Supply Chain environments; Ed has 25 years of end to end experience, leading large teams in a number of industries. He delivers high operational performance in the day to day business simultaneously with structural, technical and process change programmes, yielding substantial cost reduction and improved effectiveness.
- How to determine which products to forecast on and which customers – how is this choice made?
- How to turn forecasts into a value in a flexible way and how to do this on an aggregate level
- Improving communication between sales, marketing, planning and production: How can we work better together?
- Maximising forecast security and protecting your work
- How to measure the impact of a good forecast for delivery
STREAM C – CREATIVE BOADROOMS Limited spaces available
14:00 - 14:20 CREATIVE BOARDROOM: Opportunities and methodologies to reduce product waste for the EU directive 2014/47
A more rigorous, creative and interactive approach to tackling the critical challenges you all face today. Collaborate with a small group of your peers to determine a new 3-step action plan to take back to the office and test. Share your recent experiences, challenge each other on points of disagreement and ultimately find a way forward that leverages the innovation, know-how and insights from the collective brain power in the boardroom.
- Legislation and regulations on transport safety
- Responsibilities of packers and shippers
- Product damage reduction
- “Load and drive” method for palletized goods
- Unit load testing procedures
STREAM A – Embedding Process Excellence, Innovation & Safety into SMC
14:20 - 14:40 CASE STUDY PRESENTATION: How to balance the Chemical Logistics S(afety) = Q(uality) x C(ost)2 equation
As Vice President, Europe it is Howard’s responsibility to lead the Agility Chemical Logistics business in Europe. This carries a breadth of responsibility including our customer solutions and service delivery, procurement activity, product development and ultimately the financial performance of the business. His biggest recent success is leading a global ocean freight customer implementation project, the scope of which covered all regions, EDI process development, standard operating procedures and Global Analytics for visibility and continuous improvement.
- The value of chemical logistics safety and quality
- Logistics cost reduction pressure
- Alternative logistics management models for equation balance
STREAM B – Advanced Forecasting, S&OP and Risk Management
14:20 - 14:40 CASE STUDY PRESENTATION: What are the most effective risk management strategies in order to minimise supply chain disruption?As global supply chain head for Givaudan's flavour division Joris provides end to end functional supply chain leadership to the customer care, planning, logistics and regional procurement organization. What has been your biggest success over the past 6 months? Restructuring and stabilization of the global ingredients S&OP processes. What is your biggest challenge in your role? Driving our supply chain towards greater agility.
- A proven methodology to assess and mitigate inbound risks
- Business continuity planning - global, regional and local responsibilities
- The role of S&OP to prioritize risk and allocate resources for risk mitigation
- Risk management as a competitive edge
STREAM C – CREATIVE BOADROOMS Limited spaces available
14:20 - 14:40 Session continuedSTREAM A – Embedding Process Excellence, Innovation & Safety into SMC
14:40 - 15:30 CASE STUDY REVOLUTION: How to create a world class operational excellence culture- Learn how Lundbeck have kept momentum of their Lean journey for 10 years
- Get insights to how Leadership development have been utilized to transfer the ownership of Lean to the individual leader
- Discover the elements of a lean culture and the associated
STREAM B – Advanced Forecasting, S&OP and Risk Management
14:40 - 15:30 CASE STUDY REVOLUTION: How to create a market, customer driven, supply chain by adopting a collaborative S&OP process
Maarten Cornelissen is currently Supply Chain Manager at Teijin Aramid B.V. Owner of McLogVision B.V., management consultancy and Advisor to the Board for Royal Ahrend N.V., having previously been their Chief Supply Chain Officer. He has worked nearly 20 years in senior European management positions in Supply Chain, Operations and Customer Service.
Building on his extensive experience with Customer and Supply Chain, Maarten’s aim is to lead and coach management teams on supply chain leadership to become truly customer led, integral managed supply chain organizations.
Building on his extensive experience with Customer and Supply Chain, Maarten’s aim is to lead and coach management teams on supply chain leadership to become truly customer led, integral managed supply chain organizations.
- Why invest in your Supply Chain organization and state-of-the-art S&OP tools?
- How to enable collaborative planning through state-of-the-art S&OP tools?
- How to drive change across the Supply Chain and involve the entire organization
STREAM C – CREATIVE BOADROOMS Limited spaces available
14:40 - 15:30 CREATIVE BOARDROOM: Comparing and contrasting SC management in an SME vs. the top 5: Integrate and optimise is not the only way!
Please come with an open mind for vigorous and interactive discussion
- Should we always aim for “best in class?”
- When is “fit for purpose” good enough?
- Can the pragmatists learn from the optimisers and vice versa?
- When you are only as strong as your weakest link, can the 80% rule ever be adequate?
- Do “speed and simplicity” make for sexy supply chains?
- Should we always aim for “best in class?”
- When is “fit for purpose” good enough?
- Can the pragmatists learn from the optimisers and vice versa?
- When you are only as strong as your weakest link, can the 80% rule ever be adequate?
- Do “speed and simplicity” make for sexy supply chains?
15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon networking break
STREAM A – Embedding Process Excellence, Innovation & Safety into SMC
16:00 - 16:20 CASE STUDY PRESENTATION: Cargo securing innovation: Driving value through safe, effective and efficient cargo securing
Cordstrap are dedicated to working in partnership with manufacturers and transporters to provide advice and solutions to global cargo securing needs. One of the biggest challenges our customers face is striking the right balance between competing forces and priorities in the market. At Cordstrap we are proud of the role we play to advise customers on these issues and to develop and implement solutions that strike the right balance and add value to our customers. A big success has been the role we have played in growing the awareness on the importance of CTU Code compliance by the industry and the creation of CTU Code compliant solutions which benefit customer’s logistic performance and the endorsement of shipping lines, surveyors and major industrial players for these.
- Importance of regulatory compliance & latest developments
- Opportunities for damage reduction
- Reducing total cost of ownership
STREAM B – Advanced Forecasting, S&OP and Risk Management
16:00 - 16:20 CASE STUDY PRESENTATION: Practical approach to big data: How to enable fact-based collaboration focused on business results
Iveta leads the Center of Supply Chain Expertise by Covestro, a team of program and project managers and process owners. Together with operations and other functions within and beyond Covestro we aim to enable smooth supply chains and deliver the best results for our customers and our company. We won with our Lean Transformation in Supply Chain the Covestro 2016 Overall I-C-E Award. The I-C-E stands for innovation, costs and efficiency. My biggest challenge is driving change fast enough to engage everyone along the end-to-end supply chains in continual improvement and process excellence to deliver results which matter.
- How to align vertically and horizontally to work towards common targets
- How to engage everyone in effective collaboration
- How to facilitate continuous improvement across functions, organizations and companies
- How to sustain breakthrough projects
STREAM C – CREATIVE BOADROOMS Limited spaces available
16:00 - 16:20 CREATIVE BOARDROOM - LIVE STREAM WEBEX: How to successfully enter India and China: Ensure you optimise the commercial opportunities available in these markets
A more rigorous, creative and interactive approach to tackling the critical challenges you all face today. Collaborate with a small group of your peers to determine a new 3-step action plan to take back to the office and test. Share your recent experiences, challenge each other on points of disagreement and ultimately find a way forward that leverages the innovation, know-how and insights from the collective brain power in the boardroom.
- How to transition new products into an established organization
- How to comply with the regulatory requirements
- Adhering to waiver, custom, and import processes
- Sourcing reliable local partners to work with
- How to set up a successful distribution network
- Do you have local people working in DCs (outsource) or send employees there (insource)?
- Direct deliveries to customer or using local distributors/agenTS
- Weather, temperature and shelf life considerations
- How to avoid transportation and infrastructure hurdle
- Creating an agile SC to cope with unforeseeable changes
STREAM A – Embedding Process Excellence, Innovation & Safety into SMC
16:20 - 17:00 OUT-OF-INDUSTRY CASE STUDY REVOLUTION: How to use track and trace capabilities in order to achieve full SC visibility
Thorsten’s biggest recent success is the implementation of “One Global Supply Chain” within Henkel which combines all supply chain and purchasing activities under one roof. He has also implemented a global transport management system. His biggest challenge is constantly balancing business requirements vs. supply chain needs.
- Which track and trace tools should you invest in and why?
- What is the potential for integration with current systems?
- How can we transfer all SC functions onto one single platform?
STREAM B – Advanced Forecasting, S&OP and Risk Management
16:20 - 17:00 ALL STAR PANEL: How can you best manage the impact of M&A on your supply chain in order to minimise disruption and maximise potential?
It’s no secret that the chemical industry is in the midst of a period of unprecedented M&A activity and 2017 looks to be continuing the trend. In this fluctuating environment, how can you design a supply chain that’s optimal for today’s business yet prepared for tomorrow’s potential disruption? When a merger or acquisition is announced, what are the biggest inherent challenges for supply chain executives and how can they best be tackled?
- In terms of supply chain impact, what are the biggest pitfalls companies should look out for?
- How to successfully integrate new product lines
- Overcoming internal collaboration issues
- How are the people impacted? Managing uncertainty within the team
- What is the outlook for further major M&A activity in the near-medium term?
STREAM C – CREATIVE BOADROOMS Limited spaces available
16:20 - 17:00 Session Continued17:00 - 23:59 Networking Drinks Reception at the Hilton Sky Lounge
After a busy day of solution-focused sessions, relax and unwind with fellow speakers and attendees.Take advantage of the opportunity to network, share ideas off-line and checkout new products and services from innovative solutions providers. Enjoy food,drinks and music!