Symposium Agenda

Supply chains are vital to achieving high performance—yet as they lengthen, so do the risks. For today's companies striving for high performance, a lean and efficient supply chain can be a competitive advantage. Yet as supply chains grow in complexity, so does their risk of failure. A modern supply chain is a huge network extended through diversification and global reach; the supplier base almost inevitably includes multiple locations, some in far-flung places. Unfortunately, the ability to predict and manage supply chain risk has not grown at the same pace as supply chain extension. Traditional risk assessments, which usually measure just a few variables, such as the probability and magnitude of impact, do not provide the specificity and sophistication needed to protect against supply chain disruptions—whether catastrophic or mundane.

Accenture’s on the ground client experiences combined with our research, confirms that a supply chain that is correctly aligned with the business risk and security management helps to ensure business continuity . This presentation turns the spotlight on achieving business resilience. Using vivid case studies, the presentation also gives attendees a detailed assessment of the capabilities that they must deploy consistently if they are to support the supply chain models that will deliver a lasting competitive edge.

Traditionally companies considered logistics cost & service as key variables in designing their distribution networks. This presentation looks at issues, risk being one of them, that are often ignored but critical to executive buy-in & successful ROI.

ILOG has been an actor of the Supply Chain market for a long time through its software components offering.

In particular, ILOG Optimization products have been used by many ISVs for more than ten years.

More recently, ILOG has decided to enter the Supply Chain Applications market.

The presentation will explain why and how ILOG has decided to move up the value chain.

Businesses have changed; however, most companies have not redesigned their supply chains to optimize flow, to mitigate risk, and to deliver profitable demand response. In this session, we will explore five misconceptions and five best practices to improve supply chain excellence.

In order to remain competitive organisations are faced with increasing pressure to enhance productivity, eliminate waste, remove supply chain duplication and drive for cost improvement. Each of these factors has compounded the risk inherent in global supply chains, for example the drive to reduce inventory removes the buffer stock available to mitigate against supply chain breakdown. Management of this risk quite often has a focus on major events outside of the organisations control such as terrorism and acts-of-god, however “as IT increasingly becomes the medium of business functionality, a reliance on its secure and continued operations has redefined corporate risk” (Carr, 2003) . Fonterra, as the worlds leading exporter of dairy products to over 140 countries and responsible for more than a third of international dairy trade, has significant reliance on its IT infrastructure. Scenarios run through LogicNetPlus have enabled a holistic approach to supply chain risk management strategy at Fonterra, with respect to a disruption in IT platforms necessary for the efficient execution of global trade.