Risk and Visibility in the Supply
Chain by
Dominic Regan, Sr Director Transportation
Management at Oracle “Eyjafjallajokull;
we might not be able to pronounce it but we
have all felt its impact. But volcanic
ash is just the most visible of recent risks
that has impacted on the supply chain. This
presentation will look to determine where
risks to the supply chain come from, how
their impact is felt, and how they can be
mitigated. In seeking to prove why
visibility is more than just ‘track &
trace’, the presentation will use practical,
case-study based examples to establish why
communication and collaboration is vital for
the success of the modern supply chain.”
TM Forum’s
Frameworx for Service-Oriented Enterprises
within a Value Chain: by
Mike Kelly, SME at TM Forum Presentation: TM Forum’s Frameworx for
Service-Oriented Enterprises within a Value
Chain: TM Forum provides an
integrated architecture for realizing
Service-Oriented Enterprises through Frameworx, which links the Business
Process Framework and other Frameworks with
an SOA approach for Business Services. This
talk explains Frameworx, focusing
on the Business Process Framework in
particular, and how this links with a view
of Business
Services and platforms as
elements in an end-end Value Chain.
Connecting the Operator and Component
Manufacturer OR What is special about B2B in
Telecom? by
Franziska Kraus, Motorola In the presentation we will look at
complex supply chains, look at the
peculiarities of the Telecom industry and
attempt to draw some conclusions to improve
process integration between businesses. A
snapshot of another complex industry will be
looked at as well for comparing purposes
GXS on Azure - Cloud
computing and the enterpriseby
Justin
Duewel-Zahniser,
Global Product Manager
at GXS GXS—a global leader in B2B
e-commerce and integration
services—began a project to
extend their Trading Grid
platform for supply chain
automation with value-add
services built on third
party cloud computing
technologies. Through their
partnership with Microsoft,
GXS is developing and
enhancing a trading
partnership analytics
service called
Trading Partner Analytics.
The solution serves a dual
role of providing
interesting new value to
existing Trading Grid
customers and allowing GXS
to gain field experience
with cloud technologies and
business models in
parallel. Developed in
conjunction with a Microsoft
partner, the project also
demonstrates the value of a
robust partner community in
providing scalable
development resources on
demand
SieCloud: Cloud based Software Distribution
Serviceby Andreas Essing,
Director Microsoft Consulting, SIS Germany
and Johannes Lenz, IC Consultant, SIS
Germany
SieCloud Software Distribution Service
provides data transfer from a central
location to any kind of devices (e.g. cars,
medical devices, sensors, computers) in
various world-wide locations with high
performance in a secure, flexible, and cost
effective way. The presentation will cover
the
Benefits of using a cloud computing
platform for software distribution;
Business Scenarios & Benefits;
Lessons learned
Early B2B Integration Use Casesby Daniel B. Niemann
VP of Sales and Business Development at Informatica Cloud While the market entry strategy for
Informatica Cloud remains focused on
integration with SaaS applications and
Salesforce.com in specific, some early
adopters are thinking about how it could
provide value for more traditional B2B
integration projects. In this
presentation, Mr. Niemann will review high
level technical use cases and the business
driver behind several of these
implementations. In addition, he will
provide a demonstration of this
revolutionary technology.
Uncovering the hidden value within
the SCOR Modelby Douglas Kent European Chairman of the
Supply Chain Council
Discover what makes the Supply Chain
Council’s SCOR Model so valuable in
diagnosing the health of an enterprise-wide
supply chain and helping company’s
re-engineer their basic business processes
to ensure sustainability. Participants will
gain insight to this industry standard
reference model as well as practical
insights on how to apply the elements of
process, metrics, and best practices for
step-change results.
APICS’ key performance indicators for supply
chain managementby Peter Merke
of Production Management Institute Today’s challenge is to synchronize
demand with supply via the entire supply
chain from raw material supplier to end
consumer. Information Technology is the
enabler for today’s Supply Chain Management.
The presentation will show how APICS (The
Association for Operations Management)
relates IT to strategic, tactical, and
operational decision-making processes and
key performance indicators. Further how
Supply Chain Financials can be improved
through better material and information
flows.
Improving B2B
Partnerships through better Supply Chain
Visibility by
Satya Samal, Head of Sales at Infosys
Globalization and challenges in economy are
pushing companies to re-engineer their
supply chain. The need to have actionable
information from across the company’s value
network is increasing every day.
Unfortunately the IT infrastructure
supporting today’s supply network is a
bottleneck, but companies are struggling
re-haul this infrastructure given the
investment needed. Microsoft
Supply Chain Visibility
addresses this challenge effectively. Built
using latest Microsoft technology, SCV
solution is lean and easy to deploy. It
enables B2B collaboration and visibility
while obviating the need for major
investment in the IT landscape.
Cloud Computing - Architecture and
Strategy
by
Ulrich Biewer, Systems Architect at IBM
The presentation will highlight the IT
situation related to costs and new
workloads. The Architecture and IBM Cloud
offerings and products will be illustrated
with some customer examples with an emphasis
on the business aspect of Cloud Computing.
Deployment
flexibility while expanding business
networksby Elton
Schwerzel of Crossgate
and Frank Ruland of SAP
Customers require deployment flexibility
which can mean on premise, on demand and
"cloud" deployment. This presentation will
illustrate new deployment options for B2B
inclusive SAP Information Interchange by
Crossgate.
B2B Past Present Futureby
Steve Keifer of GXS Keynote Presentation which
will discuss the highlights
of the past decade including
the rise of the dot coms,
marketplaces, XML and
emerging markets. The
presentation will continue
with a brief look forward at
the opportunities for the
next decade including SaaS,
cloud computing, mobile
applications and web 2.0 and
draw interesting parallels
and conclusions
Today’s
Challenges in Managing ERP &
B2B Integrationby Mark
Morley of GXS
AMR Research and GXS has
recently completed a study
on the challenges facing
companies in ERP & B2B
integration. This
presentation will highlight
the key findings, the issues
being encountered by high
tech companies and why B2B
integration should be a
crucial consideration in ERP
upgrades and
implementations.
How standards based partner
solutions drive the
objectives of growth,
productivity and partner led
experienceby
Arthur Van Staveren of Cisco This presentation will
share how Cisco is using
standards to reach its goals
in growth, productivity and
partner led experience. It
will also address the
evolution of standards, and
how these relate to the
(ever) changing business and
IT landscape. It will
conclude with lessons
learned and future outlook.
From BRICs to MEATSE
by
Mark Morley
of GXS
Lessons learned from the
adoption of B2B by emerging
markets such as China and
India from 2000-2010.
What will the next emerging
markets be (Middle East,
Africa, Thailand and SE
Asia) and how can they avoid
the mistakes others have
made with B2B.
Value creation through e-collaboration
by Bidur Dhaul,
Director, Supplier Collaboration
at Philips
The presentation will be
explaining how things worked
in the past, the current
collaboration maturity level
with an impact on
process/value creation and
possible plans for the
future
The value of
Operational Excellence
today: how to get ready to
what comes next the crisis?byPierfrancesco Manenti
of
IDC Global recession is forcing
manufacturers to re-assess
their business strategies,
processes, and practices. It
requires managers to balance
the short term requirements
to survive, with the need to
position their business and
take advantage of coming
upturn.
Operational Excellence is
central to this business
transformation and it takes
many forms today:
environmental excellence,
maintenance excellence,
collaboration excellence,
etc.
Three approaches are worthy
of attention as a way to
improve Operational
Excellence:
- Measure overall
performance with Operating
Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
- Embrace green
manufacturing the principles
of “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”
- Implement modern asset
management to slash
inefficiencies and costs
Keynote: Keep your customers close, but your suppliers closer still
by Justin Suter Of IBM
All organisations profess to
be customer focused or
customer centric, but in
reality many organisation
spend more time and effort
focused on their suppliers.
How can organisations strike
the right balance when
looking at their end-to-end
supply chains? How should
they structure their B2B
strategies to drive
simplicity and efficiency in
their day to day operations?
During this keynote
presentation, Justin will
highlight the key issues,
raise some interesting
cross-industry comparisons
and pose some provocative
challenges to stimulate our
thinking for the rest of the
plenary.
Symplifying the supply chain through visibility and governance
by Steve Cochran of Inovis Increasing complexity and
use of original design
manufacturers are changing
the way High Tech leaders
need to manage their supply
chains. Globalisation
and reliance on third
parties logistics providers
requires real-time
visibility and rapid
enablement of new channel,
such as retail.
The smarter Supply Chain of the Future by Laurence Carpanini of
IBM IBM recently released the results of its Chief Supply Chain
Officer's Study which included interviews with 400 senior supply
chain executives from around the globe. The number one challenge
facing supply chain executives today is overwhelming and fragmented
data coupled with an inability to make sense out of the information.
And as if the lack of visibility wasn’t enough to contend with,
supply chain managers are finding themselves trying to
simultaneously juggle a host of other added pressures and demands.
In his presentation, Laurence will present on the wider findings of
this study and the potential implication for the supply chain in the
electronics and communications industries. Also
on
webcast recording - 28 Minutes - 10MB - download
webex player here
Actionable visbility - the next evolution of Supply Chain
performance by Jianglong Zhou of IBM Any supply chain director
will tell you that supply
chain visibility is high on
their priority list; but
fewer have successfully
implemented visibility
solutions. With increasing
pressure for high performing
supply chains and recent
advances in technology,
improved visibility is a
must. It improves customer
service and is the latest
step in enhanced
collaboration across the
supply chain.
Jianglong will
discuss the factors that
assure successful supply
chain visibility programmes,
of which the ability to act
on acquired
data is key. Also
on
webcast recording - 35 minutes - 13MB - download
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Outsourced service delivery: Opportunities, Benefits and Use Cases
by Jacky Danon of IBM Emerging
requirements from
government, the marketplace
and your trading partners is
driving organisations to
focus on their core
business. B2B
execution and integration on
a global scale is
challenging organization to
be more nimble than their
internal resources can
support and many have turned
to outsourcing document
exchange, eInvoicing and
supplier management to
provide incremental
capabilities to improve
their competitiveness.
B2B Service Optimisation - DHL Dimensions by Rajanikanth Koodali
of DHL DHL as an LSP, with a global
presence, wider industry
coverage and a massive
customer base has major
challenges on the B2B System
Integration space. The
presentation covers
what Enterprise System
Integration service
(DHL Supply Chain internal
regional integration
service) has to offer, to
overcome some of these
challenges through
standardisation, agile
internal processes and
service consolidation
eInvoicing session by Tony Nisbett of IBM and Olaf Schrader of
Crossgate The European Commission is proposing radical changes to the
current eInvoicing Directive. How will this affect EDIFICE members?
A quick overview of eInvoicing methods and how you can be sure that
you are going to pass a VAT audit
RosettaNet Update by Donald Tsusaki The RosettaNet update for the 108th Plenary focuses on
the activities of the community at large. Beginning with an overview
of the recently published Implementation Statistics, the
presentation will then cover an activity of the Bay Area RosettaNet
Deployment (BARD) group in the US, highlights from a few of the
Affiliate countries in Asia, and a preview of what RosettaNet Taiwan
is planning for the Global Partner Conference in Taipei. Of special
note will be a report about the first meeting of several solution
providers who formed the SP Forum in April Also
on
webcast recording
26 minutes - 10 MB - download
webex player here
How to turn global B2B Collaboration into business value?
by
Lutz Jaeger (on behalf of
Oliver Bahner) of Crossgate This presentation will deal
with the current requirements and efforts for B2B communication
across various industries and how globalization changes the demand
in connectivity. Especially the next step of standardization -focussing
on semantics - will be covered and showed, how Crossgate and SAP
try to deliver answers.
Innovation proposal: Simplify B2B with the Hybrid Implementation
Protocol (HIP)by Jan Fuchs of C&F Consulting Using Structured Electronic Messaging is
the most efficient way for creating virtual networks to serve as
Virtual Enterprise, Virtual Market Place or Virtual Organizations.
The Structured Electronic Message (SEM) makes abstraction of the top
layer allowing heterogeneous organizations and applications to
interconnect seamlessly.
Various protocols exist for creating structured electronic messages.
The protocol one selects has an enormous influence on consistency,
agility, reach, maintainability and cost of the virtual network.
In today’s business climate, Business managers want more consistency
and more agility at the same time. More reach for less money.
Flexible maintenance at lower cost. More Control with less hands-on.
This seems all a bit contradictory and very often it is.
With the “Hybrid Implementation
Protocol™”, Jan Fuchs succeeded in taking the best-in-breed
characteristics of various message structuring protocols and has
merged them into a single concept for SEM: HIP
The use of OAG
within IBMby Bill
Wise of IBM (remotely) This
presentation will describe the process by which IBM has taken OAG as
a foundation for the definition of all data required for integration
either internally (A2A) or externally (B2B)
The importance of
Open Standards and IBM's new
ICT Standards Policyby Jochen Friedrich of IBM This presentation will give a brief outline of the
new ICT standards policy which IBM announced in autumn 2008. It will
introduce the key elements of IBM's standard's policy and set them
into relation to IBM's role in the global standards ecosystem. A
major aspect of IBM's policy is the strong committment to Open
Standards. The importance of open standards, in particular for
software and business interoperability, will be outlined in the
presentation, as well
IT evolution to
support Business
improvement
-
Service
Orientation for the
extended enterprise:
The Olivetti experienceby Antonio Brissa of
Crossgate (on behalf of Alberto Ostorero of
Telecom Italia) SOA is the buzzword
of last three-four years; all in IT – vendors, analysts, managers -
speak about SOA; but who has really delivered business services and
achieved benefits for the business by embracing SOA ?
When Olivetti – a Telecom Italia Group Company – was forced to
change the EDI management system, SOA paradigm was chosen in order
to minimize risks and meet requested SLA on a really simple – yet
critical – business process. This case study tries to explain main
drivers for SOA adoption and highlight true benefits the customer is
experiencing
Foundation for Smart, Fast & Flexible Integrations
by Franziska Kraus of Motorola Condensed business process life cycles require faster integration
planning, building and implementation more than ever. Integration
processes need to be agile supporting globalization but eventually
also turning back to regionalization, outsourcing as well as in
sourcing. Outside of individual integration projects a
governed integration framework bridging the gap between business and
IT, providing focus on company objectives and metrics acts as base
for sustainable and agile integrations
Using
Excel to Simplify Business Network Enablementby Bryan Larkin of GXS Excel is the world’s most
often used tool in managing supply chain information. Finding a way
to securely and reliably allow SMB trading partners (both customers
and suppliers) to leverage this well-known tool for sending,
receiving and manipulating supply chain documents will mean
providing an instantly usable, well-understood and simple
application that can be used around the world to automate supply
chain transactions. We’ll see how this dream has become a reality
as, using OAGI standards, Excel has been enabled to provide secure
integration with trading partners from within the application itself
– including secure logon, transmission and document tracking all
from the ribbon bar. The solution allows SMB companies to utilize
Excel directly for all work as well as integrate it into back office
systems
OAGIS role in simplifying your business network enablement
by David Connelly
CEO, Open Applications Group David Connelly will discuss OAGi’s most recent events and describe
how the use of OAGIS can help an enterprise simplify their business
network. This will include release plans, Working Groups, and also
some examples of OAGIS's role in your standards strategy for
business networks
Excel
Spreadsheet projectUpdateby Eric
Pannekeet of Fairchild Semiconductor
This presentation is an update on the initiative
to create industry approved standard templates in Excel to be
exchanged with Trading Partners that are not EDI-enabled. Call for participation from the EDIFICE
membership. PO Template /
Forecast Template
Welcomeby Patrik Jansson,
Head of Supply Chain Operations at SEMC
WebSphere Business
Events by
Robert Madey VP of Strategy in the WebSphere team at IBM Event Processing is
emerging as an innovative approach for businesses to sense and
respond to opportunities and threats, amidst increasing amounts of
information and activity. IBM is leading the way with Business
Event Processing by putting the power of Event Processing into the
hands of the business user
B2B - visibility, risk sharing and adaptive logisticsby Mats Johnsson, Managing
Director, NGIL, Next Generation Innovative Logistics, VINNEX Centre Short introduction about Lund
University and industry driven research at the VINNEX centre NGIL,
Next Generation Innovative Logistics.The presentation will then
discuss the B2B research that is performed in the VINNEX centre NGIL
from a visibility, risk and adaptive perspective.
The presentation will end with a discussion about the
education structure in Sweden related to B2B?
Supply Chain performance Managementby
Debra Hofman of AMR Use an ecosystem of metrics across the end-to-end
supply chain rather than individual metrics in isolation. The
Hierarchy of SC Metrics is a model that allows companies to
highlight the inter-dependencies between metrics; identify root
cause analysis; define corrective actions.Supply chain excellence is
about balancing cost and service to deliver a profitable perfect
order. Achieving excellence requires conscious management of
tradeoffs
The High Tech Perfect Order: Challenges and Successes in Defining a
High Tech Modelby Bryan Larkin
Director
of High Tech, Retail and Consumer Product industry marketing at GXS This
presentation will explore the efforts of the Electronics Industry
Data Exchange Association’s Perfect Order Workgroup in its attempt
to define a Perfect Order model for the industry. Industry
specialists, academics and solution providers have come together to
define a working model that will soon be able to be tested. We will
explore what the model looks like, what is included, what was
excluded, differences and similarity to analyst suggestions, and –
perhaps most importantly – how it aligns with day-to-day supply
chain operations in use today
SAP Community
Definition Group (CDG)
for Collaborative
Fulfillment by Umesh Rustogi
Solution Manager at SAP’s High-Tech Industry Solutions group The session
presents the work of SAP Community Definition Group (CDG) for
Collaborative Fulfillment. The CDG comprised of companies from the
High-Tech Industry – Celestica, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens Computers, HP,
Intel, Lenovo, nVidia, NXP – and SAP. The CDG identified six
different types of Collaboration Models prevalent in the high-tech
industry and made an attempt to unambiguously describe them, their
differentiating characteristics, usage guidelines, and typical
operational Ts and Cs. These Collaboration Models represent the
different ways in which a customer and a supplier interact with each
other. One or more of the Collaboration Models can be implemented as
deemed appropriate. Of the six models, Dynamic VMI model has not
been published previously. In this model the buffer inventory for
the customer is physically located at the supplier's site. This
model introduces the concept of pooling the buffer to optimize
inventory across the supply chain.
Flow on Demand by
Per Grettve, founder of
MA-systemAB and
PipeChainAB How
to realize a demand chain where all partners, even small, can
collaborate and share information to improve visibility. Concepts
that are easy to understand and implement gain widespread acceptance
and are quick to be adopted. Shared goals, real time monitoring and
KPI:s are the fundaments of collaboration. The focus shifts from
follow up discussions, where partners often have different views, to
mutually agreed actions for solving actual problems and making
continuous improvements
Supply Chain measurement and continuous improvement by
Wayne Jones of
Fairchild Semiconductor The presentation
will focus on supply chain performance measurement standards and
improvement strategies. This will include Fairchild as a member of
the Supply Chain Council and references to the SCOR® model of
measurement standards. Additional attention will be made to
inventory, cycle time reduction, strategies for variability
reduction and forecast accuracy
Service
and Self-Serviceby
Arthur Larres and Brett
Batson of TI This presentation provides some
insight into TI's E-commerce endeavors as well as showing both,
data- and business process measurement points and their criteria
for failure or success. Starting with an overview about TI's B2B
portfolio, this material moves on to define some ground rules for
B2B message processing as well as to identify the need for
flexible ad hoc solutions, TI's EZconnect approaches are being cited
as example. The presentation follows on with automated alert
reporting and an overview about measurement reporting. A view to yet
missing measurement elements and a brief look into the future
conclude this update.
Empowering
excellence in the High Tech and Electronics Industry
by Sanjay Ravi
Managing Director, High Tech and Electronics Industry and Craig Rode
Industry Technology Strategist, High Tech and Electronics Industry
at Microsoft The session will cover
the key macro forces impacting the High Tech and Electronics
Manufacturers, as well as the New world of Work within Manufacturing
organizations of the future. Rapid changes in the global business
climate as well as technology are changing the way people and
businesses interact to drive business success. The session will
cover some of the key changes that are happening in the industry,
the impact of these changes to high tech and electronics
manufacturers, and the evolving trends and opportunities they
present in the B2B and supply chain domain
SCM B2Bby
Christophe Begue of IBM Enterprise
supply chains constantly need to change and innovate to keep up with
the factors influencing the business environment. Creating effective
B2B and supply chain solutions necessitates integrating trading
partner relationships with dynamic business rules management. We
will present on IBM integrated solution for trading partner
relationships management, B2B exchange and dynamic business rule
enforcement
RosettaNet Updateby Clement Erhardt III, RosettaNet President Clem
Erhardt, President of RosettaNet, will provide a RosettaNet update
to the EDIFICE Community. He will share his observations after his
first 100 days as president, describe his vision for its future, and
outline some of the activities and steps toward achieving that
vision. Clem will also touch on recent community-driven milestone
programs and share what the RosettaNet community has been doing to
chart a strategic course for the consortium
eBusiness crossing bordersby Steven Keifer,VP of Industry and Product Marketing at GXS The boundaries of the high tech industry continue to expand as
electronics are increasingly embedded in automotive, medical and
aerospace products. But what are the implications for e-commerce
standards which are becoming increasingly specialized for industry
sub-sectors? This session will offer insights and observations on
the challenges of e-commerce beyond borders
Delivering Commerce Across Borders - What can other bring to the
table?by Christian Harupa of DHL Many management consultants, investment bankers and
business strategists have advised clients to focus on their core
value proposition to their Customers. Companies should focus on what
they do best – bring the best product to market, be ever focused on
satisfying the Customer needs or have the most operational efficient
organization. So if a Business focuses on its core value, where do
they get the rest to complete their business proposition? Simple –
outsource, buy it or rent it. This presentation examines various
aspects of delivering eCommerce capability across borders and what
value can be gained by not having a complete electronic commerce
solution as part of their core capability.
Intel’s Global Business Network Integration Strategy and OAGi HT
Council Updateby John
Cartwright, Director of Business
Network Integration for Intel Intel’s
global Business Network Integration strategy is changing. Intel is
changing from a one format fits all paradigm to being relatively
agnostic about the implementation of standard supply chain business
models. What is the role of EDIFICE, EIDX, RN, OAGi, and other
organizations in our global integration strategy. Will provide an
overview of how Intel’s infrastructure is changing to support a
heterogeneous B2B environment and the role OAGi plays in that new
infrastructure
The convergence of the physical and financial supply chain
by Steven Keifer, of GXS As international trade continues to grow, business leaders need to
develop strategies for both the physical and financial aspects of
their supply chains. This session will explain the new concept of
“Supply Chain Finance” and how electronics manufacturers can apply
these principles with Asian vendors and Eastern European
distributors
Best Practices in enabling SMEs - How to simplify eCommerce and
address geographical, industry and technology complexitiesby Tom Varghese
Senior
Global Product Manager at
GXS For most high tech companies, implementing suppliers beyond their
top 20% is very challenging since 100% participation is necessary to
obtain the maximum benefit from their investment in their
e-initiatives. Global partners introduce several key challenges
including different geographies, time zones, languages and support.
Today’s session will focus on solutions that can enable SMEs around
the world
RFID Global Standards
by Martin Treder of DHL
Identification and labeling of packages is a critical
area for collaboration between seller and buyer, between warehouse
and point of sales. The usage of proprietary standards in labeling,
bar-coding and RFID often impacts interoperability between the
parties of a transaction. This can be overcome by using ISO
standards. The presentation outlines some ideas and explains what
DHL Express is doing to support this development.
e-Invoicing in Europe - the Current Playing Field
by Tony Nisbett of IBM
e-Invoicing is a highly topical subject in the
European Community now that the Single Euro Payment Area launch has
focussed banks further up the supply chain. Tony will outline the
activities that are underway to "normalise" the playing field
B2B without Borders: Reassessing the Challenges after 8 years of the
21st Century - by
Bryan Larkin, Director of Strategy and Marketing for GXS This
presentation will highlight how our perception of supply chain
automation and B2B is changing based on rising fuel costs,
inabilities of technologically challenged companies (especially
suppliers in emerging regions), and the drive towards
line-of-business functionality. Will include findings from AMR
Research and Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum
UN/CEFACT Core Components Update
by Gunther Stuhec of SAP A holistic B2B approach, in the complete value chain
via industries and countries, is still a big challenge. There still
exist too many different structures and representations for same
semantics. Especially the human readability XML leveraged this
dilemma. This presentation will show, why CCTS could be very helpful
and beneficial for solving issues. But the user will learn that CCTS
is not enough. Adoption is highly required, and this presentation
shows how the SAP is currently adopting CCTS. This presentation
gives also an outline how these CCTS libraries could be effectively
develop together in a community and by support of a revolutionary
tool. This will be demonstrated by the prototype "CCTS Modeler Warp
10".
Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Supply
Chain and Core Platforms Strategy by
Robert Meshew of Microsoft Managing Microsoft’s aggressive growth and increasing product
complexity requires a Enterprise Architecture that enables
flexibility, decreases time to market and is enabled by standards.
Our infrastructure has been reengineered on top of the core
foundational building blocks: Integration, Data
Management, Portal and Workflow
SAP Integration of RosettaNet quoting
by Sophie Ranson Operational Excellence
Manager at Silica and Jerry Slegers Business Analyst, Quote Centre, Distribution
Europe at NXP Semiconductors
This is a joint demo of Avnet and
NXP on their current process for RosettaNet
quoting.It
will describe the process from quote request to quote confirmation
step by step, embedding RosettaNet
functionalities
Product
Data Quality
by Kevin Knight Account Manager Product Data Quality at GXS The presentation covers the importance of Product Data Quality in
the value chain, the challenges faced by many companies
in satisfying the growing consumer demand for accurate product
information and how leading edge companies are adapting their
processes and implementing solutions to improve their bottom line
and meet the needs of their customers.
Product
Data Quality
by Kevin Knight Account Manager Product Data Quality at GXS
The presentation covers the importance of Product Data
Quality in the value chain, the challenges faced
by many companies in satisfying the growing
consumer demand for accurate product information and how
leading edge companies are adapting their processes and
implementing solutions to improve their bottom line and
meet the needs of their customers
The need for responsiveness in an uncertain world: multi-channel
distribution and the virtual supply chain by Andrew Manning, Principal Architect at Infosys
This session will cover some of the trends
and drivers that are shaping supply chains, requiring them to
become more agile and demand driven, across the world.
1) Drivers for change: ·A ‘flatter’
world… and increasing complexity ·Increasing
connectivity and mobility ·Environmental concerns and the need for efficiency
2) Some of the mechanisms for realising virtual supply chains: ·Collaboration approaches ·Unified
communications between people and ‘assets ·Improvements in integration between
companies
3) An example of global multi-channel distribution
Report from the Global Distribution Supply Chain Optimization
(GDSCO) Workshop in Phoenix, AZ - January 22nd 2008
- by Eric Pannekeet of Fairchild Semiconductor GDSCO is a project in collaboration with EIDX
Legal Aspects of eCommerce Supply Chain Solutions by David Marsh, IP, IT and Electronic Business Law Consultant E-commerce technological supply chain management
developments inevitably raise new legal issues. RFID raises
particular challenges from a data protection perspective,
covering central issues such as profiling, product
identification, codes of conduct, de-activation and stock
management and inventory controls. Application issues also
involve employees' privacy, staff management, product tracing,
ranging, data sharing, standards and electronic frequency and
passive/active systems concerns. David Marsh will review these
problems and discuss the latest thinking from a legal
perspective as regards codes of conduct, EU regulations
and national legislation. He will also analyse the underlying
issues of the facilitation of the technology against the
constraints to it created by regulation/legislative concerns.
Multi channel communication, fulfillment and visibilityby Carol Newton, Head of Global Customer Integration Supply
Chain Management at DHL Businesses have long been challenged to offer 100% communication
connectivity to their Trading Partners and Customers. By not
supporting a multi-channel approach to Customer integration,
Businesses are unable to offer and support business processes in
a cost effective, efficient manner. By changing the approach on
how Business systems are created and delivered, a Business may
present a coherent and consistent business process view to its
Customers through an integrated communication channel. This
business process centric approach can benefit by focusing on
reusable business processes and components accessed in a layered
architecture style. The integration platform that enables the
multi-channel communication, fulfillment and visibility must
display certain characteristics and will have demonstrable
business benefit. By adopting this approach for conducting
commerce with Customers, a Business may gain in lower
operational costs, increased revenue streams and less time to
deliver new Business Services or adapt to changing Customer,
Business requirements. An added benefit to the business process
centric approach is that it allows Businesses to participate in
collaborative Supply Chain activities and support new business
models
Global Supply chain trends and issues
by Owen Tucker, VP Marketing at E2open
Increased reliance on trading partners adds complexity to supply
chain management and drives a need to evolve business processes
across the extended network. This session will focus on the top
strategic actions that best-in-class companies are taking to respond
to these market pressures and the role that organizational
structures, business processes, and supply chain and integration
technologies play. E2open vice president Owen Tucker will unveil
results of a new research study involving over 500 leaders in the
automotive, aerospace & defense, consumer products, process
manufacturing and high tech manufacturing industries conducted by
the Aberdeen Group and sponsored in part by E2open.
Global eInvoicing with local compliance – How to get smooth audits
and eliminate non compliance risksby Anders Hellermark, CEO
and Christiaan van der Valk, VP compliance at Trustweaver
This presentation will show how to overcome
the growing tension between global consolidated data flows and
fragmented national law. TrustWeaver will give a hands-on demo of an
e-invoice tax audit in a multinational environment, showing how the
entire invoice lifecycle can be made auditable using modern
e-signature techniques and web services. By applying
country-specific security processes and making the results
verifiable from a central point in the transaction flow, companies
can cost-effectively set and enforce compliance strategies and best
practices throughout their supply chain. The presentation will
address questions such as: What is the tax inspector really looking
for? How do I set and manage an appropriate regulatory risk level?
How to design a compliant e-invoicing flow without compromising
compliance? What are today’s best practices for e-invoicing and how
will they evolve?
Supply Network Collaboration with focus on Outsourced Manufacturingby
Anita Leitz, Business Development Manager in Supply Chain Management
Consulting at SAP
There is a strong trend to outsource the manufacturing in order to
be competitive for the future. Unfortunately the companies do
experience a real pain with outsourcing. Supply Network
Collaboration (SNC) supports the outsourced manufacturing by
improving the visibility into the Supply Chain and increasing the
collaboration with partners.
Financial Supply Chainby Mark
Nathan of IBM Banks have offered Trade Finance to assist international trade for
many years. However, over the past 10 years, international trade
has moved to open account, with the result that increasing financial
pressure and risk is put on the suppliers. This presentation
explains supply chain finance as it is offered today, (domestic and
international) how we see the market potentially developing and the
benefits to the parties involved.
Vendor Managed Replenishment
in High Technology industries
by Richard McCluney VP Supply Chain at E2open An overview of current vendor managed
replenishment practices used in hi-tech industries. The talk will
include a process overview, contractual elements, deployment
strategies, the role of technology, typical key performance
indicators, and trends moving forward.
B2B Integration in the Telecom Equipment Supply: Impact,
Applicability, and the Role of the RosettaNet Standard
by Jouni Kauremaa of Helsinki University of Technology Results from a study of B2B integration in the telecom equipment
supply, between OEMs and telecommunications operators, are
presented. Evidence is drawn from two in-depth OEM-operator case
studies, six mini cases of B2B implementations, and a survey to B2B
experts at five OEMs and four European operators. Conclusions on the
impact and applicability of B2B in the study context are discussed,
along with findings on the role of the RosettaNet standard. The
study was funded by the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and
Innovation (TEKES) and a company consortium including Nokia
Networks.
EIDX Update
by Ryan Kraudel, Senior Manager of Global Industry and
Product Marketing at GXS and
Board of Governors Member at EIDX.
Ryan,
as Board of Governors member at EIDX will present the EIDX
organization’s activities. One of the objectives is to explore a
possible collaboration with the EDIFICE organization on common
points of interest
RosettaNet Update
- Penang Conference Report and GS1 Integration status by
Donald Tsusaki of RosettaNet
The RosettaNet Board of Governors has for the past several
months been looking at next steps for RosettaNet. Of paramount
importance is to proactively ensure the continued growth and
vitality of the standard and its usage. The RosettaNet update for
the 103rd EDIFICE Plenary will highlight the results to date of
those discussions and upcoming activities that will determine the
course of RosettaNet’s future
FedEx B2B Strategy
by Stefan Schwerdtle of FedEx
A
look on FedEx and its B2B Strategy, introduction of the tools and
applications to meet our customer’s needs and the support provided
by FedEx.
Technology as enabler for B2B Integration
by Jochen Schäfer of webMethods
For decades business processes were restricted
to the capabilities and offerings of IT. IT has been seen as
inflexible, cost-intensive and slowing down the implementation of
new processes. By now IT is ready for end-to-end Business
Integration enabling visibility, adaptability and pro-active
optimization based on a common language of business and IT.
Evolution of DHL's Information Supply Chain by
Damian Bere of DHL An introduction to the evolution of DHL's
Information Supply Chain, through the use of information and service
oriented integration as a foundation to develop a flexible
infrastructure to provide truly on-demand business-to-business
services. This presentation takes a look into how we harmonise the
internal foundations of our enterprise with strong B2B frameworks
such as RosettaNet that guide the way we interact with external
parties.
ODETTE and Automotive Supply Chain standardisationby John Canvin Managing Director of
ODETTE International
This presentation
provides a brief background to the Odette organisation which sets
standards and recommendations for B2B and Supply Chain
communications in the automotive industry. It will highlight some of
the latest activities in Production Forecast and Inventory
Management, the use of RFID for tracking and tracing of returnable
packaging and in vehicle distribution, XML for messaging and recent
work with Carriers and LSPs, amongst others.
Global Logistics Visibilityby Ryan Kraudel of GXS A dilemma has
emerged in high tech supply chains that is impacting manufacturers’
ability to seize market opportunities and meet increasingly- complex
customer needs. Product lifecycles are shrinking as customers’
preferences continue to change and customers’ expectations continue
to rise. Meanwhile, manufacturers have outsourced much if not all
of the physical manufacturing to low-cost regions, greatly expanding
the physical distance between the source of supply (primarily China
and Southeast Asia) and the source of demand (primarily the United
States and Western Europe), which has reduced supply chain
responsiveness and visibility. This presentation will describe how
the supply chain dilemma is impacting business results; how leading
companies are regaining supply chain visibility and responsiveness;
and how companies are increasingly competing on global supply chain
capabilities.
ADC - Automatic Data Capture
by Erich Guenter of IBM and Heinrich Oehlmann of Eurodata Council
Understanding Automatic Identification Technology & Standards,
Global Unique Identification Scheme; License Plate and RFID
BILL-eInvoicingby Tony Nisbett of IBM
Understanding compliance and preparing for an e-invoicing tax audit
S&D - Suppliers & Distributors
by Eric Pannekeet of Fairchild Semiconductor
Business Process and B2B Technical Standardization for Distribution
Channel Management
SAP - SAP Integration
by Helmut Hartstock of, Nokia Siemens Networks
Swift Code integration and Business scenarios, SAP Monitoring tools
