Opening Keynote Presentation: Joseph Grenny, Bestselling Business Author

Natalia Armstrong, Dir. Americas Transportation Planning & Logistics, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Steve Berkowitz, VP, Logistics/Production Planning, All American Poly
Sonney Jones, Division Dir., Transportation, Dal-Tile Corporation
David Litterello, Adjunct Professor, Int’l SCM & Former VP, Logistics, Archway Mkt. Service
Jason Mathers, Program Manager, Corp. Partnerships, Environmental Defense Fund
Ed Medlock, Sr. VP of Distribution, Logistics & Program Mgnt., Quality Supply Chain Co-Op-Wendy's
Trey McClure, VP, Supply Chain, Loparex
Dr. Frank Scheer, Transportation Contracting Officer, United States Postal Services
John Vogt, VP, Global Logistics, Halliburton Company
Tom Ward, Former VP, Ops Rubbermaid Commercial Products & Lecturer, Tennessee Wesleyan
Sherry White, VP of Supply Chain, Brightstar

* As of April 12th, 2013. Program subject to change

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when Stakes are High

Over the past twenty years, Joseph Grenny has taught and advised more than one hundred thousand leaders on every major continent from the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies to the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. He has advised CEOs and senior executives on more than a dozen major change initiatives—receiving credit from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics’ President as a key factor in helping the organization win the $200 billion Joint Strike Fighter program.

A bestselling author, Joseph co-authored three New York Times bestsellers, Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when Stakes are High, and Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior.

Formerly, Joseph was cofounder and president of California Computer Corporation. And in 2007, he and his coauthors were named Ernst & Young Entrepreneurs of the Year for their work in founding and leading VitalSmarts, a leader in corporate training and organizational development. A seasoned executive and business strategy expert, Joseph has addressed executive level teams for clients including IBM, Progressive Insurance, Sprint, Textron, McGraw-Hill, Texas Instruments, and Genentech. Whether he’s speaking to an audience of more than ten thousand or to a small executive team, Joseph’s dynamic and captivating style keeps his skills in high demand.
 

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Opposites Attract: Turning the “Hype” of Collaboration Into Award-Winning Reality

By partnering with like-minded shippers, Dal-Tile has taken a big step towards absolute capacity utilization, with minimal risks to service.  From the impact on drivers and equipment to carbon footprint, the benefits are immediate and substantial, reducing transportation costs by as much as 30%.

Dal-Tile’s innovative process brings shippers of “opposite” product densities together, optimizing the utilization of both weight and cube on a single dispatch. Shippers of dense freight typically reach legal weight limits without filling the cubic capacity in the trailer, container, or boxcar. Likewise, shippers with lower product densities fill the cubic capacity, but leave weight capacity unutilized. In either case, transportation capacity (manpower, equipment, fuel, maintenance) is not put to its greatest use. By combining its high-density freight with other shippers’ low-density freight on the same conveyance, Dal-Tile and its partners are able to simultaneously fill weight and cube, thereby optimizing the utilization of transportation capacity.
 
Come hear how the strategy is expected to eliminate $12-15mm/yr. of transportation “waste” for Dal-Tile and its collaborative partners, while returning underutilized capacity to a tightening market.
 

Practical Six Sigma Applications in the Supply Chain

In this interactive session, attendees will be given practical tools to apply Six Sigma skills and problem solving techniques to their everyday responsibilities. You’ll learn how to develop strategic and tactical applications of the DMAIC principles of Six Sigma.

We’ll review the strategic value proposition that Six Sigma principles and applications can provide for your value chain. Specific guidelines and best practices will be presented to help you formulate your initiatives and plan for their deployment. You’ll leave with a solid understanding of how Six Sigma can be a competitive differentiator.

Topics to be presented and discussed:

• How Six Sigma can bring real value to your organization
• Constructing a Six Sigma strategic initiative
• How to communicate and deploy the Six Sigma Strategy
• Applying Six Sigma to business intelligence
• Building KPIs to enhance dash board analytics
• Developing a continuous improvement rhythm
• Monitoring Six Sigma effectiveness

Metrics That Matter: Leveraging Sustainability to Drive Down Transportation Costs

Supply chain transportation is uniquely well-positioned to advance cost-savings and efficiency efforts through the lens of environmental performance. Effective executives understand that corporate sustainability goals are an opportunity that should be embraced rather than seen as a costly and time-consuming imposition.

Leading companies are using innovative cost-saving supply chain strategies that improve carbon-efficiency. The key to success is establishing clear, definable and measurable metrics which enable you to prioritize projects and track progress.

In this session, you will learn why metrics are important,  key metrics being used, and what type of strategies/activities those metrics are driving. Jason Mathers, Senior Manager for Corporate Partnerships at EDF, will discuss how to define sustainability for logistics, review EDF’s five principles for cleaner freight, and explore the results of leading companies such as Ocean Spray, Caterpillar, and Nike.
 

Supply ”Change” Management: Roadmap from Strategy to Execution

Session Title TBD

Strategic Planning for Highway Transportation Issues

This interactive workshop will take a critical look at today’s truck transportation issues and their impacts upon supply chains. Topics include insurance, safety, driver shortage, rising fuel and equipment costs, federal regulations and road infrastructure. The workshop will conclude with a brainstorming session allowing delegates the opportunity to discuss how they can assess the impacts of each area  and plan mitigation strategies specific to their industry.

Global Trade in Emerging Market Countries

To establish trade into and from countries which have just entered the global market for a major sector is fraught with fun, frustration and frantic planning and execution. Take a tour with the problems, pitfalls and lessons learned from opening 14 new countries for the oil and gas services in the last year and a half, which has catapulted the countries into the world trade arena. Added to this are the FCPA and Anti-Bribery issues which we need to cater for, lack of infrastructure and the bureaucratic processes we face in trying to do this business. This will cover a range of topics from the three phases of a country’s development, to the work required to meet US and British standards of Trade Compliance, and the general problems of routing and moving goods into and out of the country.

The session will give anyone who is dealing with other than first world countries an insight into the trade.

Driving Change to Re-energize Your Business Model

An interactive workshop featuring a case study of how Brightstar U.S. recharged its business by wrapping value around a services portfolio. Some services were created and some acquired, but all were essential in responding to the needs of their diverse customer based.

We’ll look at how your business model needs to be agile and opportunistic in order to capitalize on mercurial market forces and be able to change quickly to keep up with paradigm shifts. Lessons learned - and strategies and tactics to implement - to overcome resistance and move transformational changes forward will also be addressed.
 

Managing Costs and Budgeting for Every-Changing Unknowns

This peer-facilitated discussion group will look at the challenges you face daily. Discussion will focus on methods to manage, budget and forecast for mercurial variables including fluctuating costs, fuel surcharges, invoice errors, freight misclassification, weight, and accessorial charges.  We’ll share options which are working and brainstorm ways to manage margins faced with these challenges.

*Please note: discussion groups are not formal presentations given by a speaker, but small peer-to-peer “think tanks” facilitated by a moderator. Please come prepared to participate!
 

Conference Development

Interested in Participating in a Logistics & Supply Chain Forum Conference?
Senior supply chain, operations and logistics executives from F1000 companies are invited to participate as speakers, moderators or facilitators.  Sessions are presented in a variety of formats and are designed to meet the needs of today's senior leaders. 

NEW in 2013! - Case Study Sliders - 10-12 minutes to present a "mini case study" to your peers and highlight your company's supply chain and operational successes.

Sample Suggested Topics:
International supply chain solutions
Optimization of supply chain
Managing Shrinking Margins
Rapid growth and demand of Internet retailing
Inbound Transportation Management
Managing IT challenges during SC Transformation
FDA regulatory issues and timing
Safety in the supply chain
Effective Planning and Forecasting
Managing Growth and Very Competitive Markets
 
Session submittals are now being accepted. For complete information, please call 212-651-8736.  If you are interested in participating in a 1-1 research call to help shape content, please call the number above.

 

Special thanks to all of our previous speakers, including:

VP Global Supply Chain, Fender Musical Instruments Corp.
Senior VP, Customer Supply Chain & Logistics PepsiCo, Inc.
Senior VP, Dr Pepper Snapple Group
Sr. Manager, Logistics Systems, Coca-Cola Refreshments
Senior Logistics Executive, Chiquita Brands International, Inc.

VP, Supply Chain Ops & Development, Seagate Technology
VP, Supply Chain Management, TASER International
VP, Supply Chain, Loparex
VP, Quality & Six Sigma, Milliken & Company

VP, North America Supply Chain Lead, Capgemini
VP N.A. Logistics, Invacare Corporation
VP, Logistics, Alliance Beverage Distributing Co.
VP, Logistics, Regis Corporation
VP of Manufacturing & Corp. Engineering, Snyder's-Lance Inc.

Head of Supply Chain, Pigments & Additives N.A., Clariant Corp.
Global Leader - RFID, GPS and Auto ID, Dow Chemical Co.
Global Dir., Supply Chain, Schick-Wilkinson Sword
Faculty, Center for Executive Education, University of TN

Director, Supply Chain Mgnt. Research Center, University of AR
Director Customer Logistics, Welch Foods, Inc.
COO, BuildDirect Technologies, Inc.
WW Dir, Global Supply Chain, Colgate Palmolive