Wednesday 25 May 2016
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08:30 | Welcome coffee
08:50 | Opening remarks from the Chair
Paul Zalai, Executive Director, Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA)
IMPROVING SUPPLY CHAIN OUTCOMES BY UTILISING THIRD PARTY LOGISTICS (3PL) AND FOURTH PARTY LOGISTICS (4PL) OPERATIONS
09:00 | Implementing more strategic 3PL and 4PL operations to achieve better supply chain outcomes
- Analysing how to set up a working relationship that is efficient to achieve organisational roles
- Implementing working rhythms in order to improve interaction between partners
- Establishing clear line of sight to the value proposition for the partnership
Ron Hurley, General Manager Supply Chain, Fuji Xerox
SECURING CONTINUITY BY IMPLEMENTING A BETTER RISK MANAGEMENT APPROACH
09:30 | PANEL DISCUSSION: Mitigating supply chain security risks by implementing a holistic risk mitigating plan
- Analysing possible supply chain threats, disruptions and their impact on business operations such as natural disasters, extreme weather conditions, cybercrime and political unrest
- How can you improve customer value through the design of a risk mitigating plan?
- What is the role and importance of leadership during the design and implementation phase?
Panel Moderator:
Paul Zalai, Executive Director, Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA)
Panellists:
Trent Morris, Regional Logistics Manager Asia Pacific, Beam Suntory
Robert D'Alessandro, Head of Procurement and Supply, Qenos
Stuart Jones, Former General Manager Supply Chain, Hills Limited
Stephen Reid, Solution Advisor - Supply Chain Execution Solutions, SAP
10:15 | CASE STUDY: Ensuring road safety with better compliance monitoring and management
- Analysing the roles and responsibilities of supply chain parties to achieve a chain of responsibility
- Identifying how technology can assist in achieving safety compliance
- Learning from compliance operations and recent findings
Paul Endycott, General Manager Compliance Operations, NSW Roads & Maritime Services
10:45 | Digitising the supply chain for improved collaboration with trading partners
- Gaining early visibility into potential supply disruptions
- Reducing inflexible point-to-point solutions and manual portals
- Benefitting from better integration and rapid supplier onboarding
Barry Manning, Director Business Development Asia Pacific / Japan, SAP Ariba
11:05 | Morning tea
ENSURING A RESPONSIBLE AND SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN
11:35 | Building responsible supply chain operations within supply chain divisions
- Achieving a responsible supply chain by the implementation of innovation
- Improving supply chain transparency to maximise accountable supply chain outcomes
- Analysing best practice responsible supply chains and how to achieve this in your organisation
Molly Harriss Olson, Chief Executive Officer, Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand
12:05 | Improving safety within supply chain operations by developing the right culture
- Identifying how to design a high performing safety culture to achieve strong and authentic safety leadership
- Understanding how safety leadership is critical in risk management to improve safety performance
- Improving supply chain efficiency while keeping strong safety focus during operations
Conor O’Malley, Advisory Board Member, Global Safety Index
12:35 | Networking lunch
13:35 | Designing a resilient and sustainable supply chain
- Identifying the actual cost of resilience and sustainability to your organisation
- Assessing the interactions between sustainability-building and risk management strategies
- Conducting a dynamic analysis to identify opportunities where small increases in supply chain costs can significantly add to the SC resilience and sustainability
Behnam Fahimnia, Director of Logistics and Supply Chain Management Programs, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, The University of Sydney Business School
14:05 | PANEL DISCUSSION: Building corporate social responsibility (CSR) within supply chain practices
- What do stakeholders expect of companies today?
- CSR - doing it because it is morally correct or doing it because it makes good business sense?
- What are the main obstacles when implementing safety, environmental and ethical standards in your organisation and how do you control this?
- What is the importance of leadership in achieving CSR?
Panel Moderator:
Paul Zalai, Executive Director, Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA)
Panellists:
Victoria Shearwood, General Manager Supply Chain, Boral
Ron Hurley, General Manager Supply Chain, Fuji Xerox
Alfons Van Woerkom, Supply Chain Director Asia - Customer Service and Order to Cash Operations, Unilever
Conor O’Malley, Advisory Board Member, Global Safety Index
Vanessa Zimmerman, Director and Chair, GCNA Human Rights Leadership Group
14:50 | Afternoon tea
TRANSFORMING INTO A FAST AND AGILE SUPPLY CHAIN TO MEET CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS
15:20 | CASE STUDY: How to improve supply chain performance – what we can learn from the Defence Transformation Program
David McGahey, Program Director, Defence Logistics Transformation Program, Joint Logistics Command, Australian Defence Force
15:50 | Building agile operations to meet different and more complex customer expectations
- Analysing the increasing customer expectations such as tracking and redirecting
- Highlighting the impact of a more customer centric approach on planning and forecasting
- Implementing continuing innovation capabilities to face the growing complexity and to achieve outcomes in a more time efficient way
Paul Broadbridge, Supply Chain Manager, National E-Health Transition Authority
16:20 | Closing remarks from the Chair and drawing of the lucky door prize!
16:30 | End of Day Two and close of conference