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Capturing New Growth: Rethinking The Supply Chain for Next Wave of China's Economic Development

Rapid economic progress in China is driving significant changes in the way companies organize and run their supply chains. Part of this change is expansion of the manufacturing base into new geographic regions to capitalize on the next wave of growth in the country - smaller, second-tier markets. Organizations must continue to increase their investments in quality management and innovation within their supply chains to be faster, more flexible and responsive, all the while increasing overall cost efficiency. Let us see how Lenovo - China’s PC market leader - is adapting its supply chain to the changing business environment, building on its heritage of producing the industry’s highest quality, most innovative products.

Guan Wei, Vice President Emerging Markets Global Supply Chain, LENOVO

Driving Towards Sourcing and Supply Chain Excellence

Marc Magistrali, VP Procurement, KONE ELEVATORS

Designing your Supply Chain & Logistics to Support Business Growth Strategy

Underdeveloped, inadequate or aging logistics infrastructure is a major constraint to doing business in many countries within the AP region. The development of partnerships and collaborative approaches are crucial to address supply chain, logistics infrastructure challenges. Dow believes that the safe, secure, efficient, reliable supply to the marketplace is a shared responsibility of the chemical industry, infrastructure service providers and local governments. Supply Chain success is achieved when the right strategy is implemented with the right business model in the growth region.

William Loy, Supply Chain Director, DOW CHEMICAL

The Supply Chain is Not Only Supply Chain

How the Honeywell Specialty Material are using SIOP process to control the inventory in China to support the rapid business growth in this market.

Henry Li, Regional Supply Chain Director AP, HONEYWELL

Collaboration to Build Up Supply Chain Excellence

How could retailers and manufacturers, business partners who usually cannot avoid fighting each other for profit and market dominance, closely work together to build up common supply chain excellence? How could retailers and 3PLs, business partners who always have to bargain each other for price and service, team up to develop efficient logistics networks to build up their own market competences?

METRO China’s practices with its strategic supplier chain partners have proven that this is all possible.

Denny Yang, Head of Supply Chain Management & Logistics, METRO

Trade Off Between LEAN and MASS

Toyota’s quality problem did not prevent the manufacturing companies’ enthusiasm to build Toyota’s Lean concept into its own operation. But from a SCM perspective, is LEAN a tool that can fit into all different business models? Is inventory really a killer to an enterprise? The answer is NO.

David Zhang,Head of Supply Chain Management, JEBSEN INDUSTRIAL GROUP

How to Cost Decrease in a Low Cost Country

What are the levers in order to cost decrease in your materials when you have already fully localized your components and parts? In this session we will share with you ideas and cases of cost reduction projects for already localized products. From reengineering to alternative materials, from redesign to lean manufacturing, all of this mixed with supplier partnership and tactics, we will explore all the possibilities and see what is feasible or not.

Yann Teste, Director SEA Purchasing & Supplier Quality Development, KNORR-BREMSE

Maximize the Benefit of Your Inventory Control Via VMI Optimisation

Objectives of our VMI approach: To improve the inventory turnover rate under the “make-to-order” manufacturing type, shorten the lead time of order fulfillment, reduce parts shortage and increase flexibility for sales order processing, and also help to ease the cash flow.

Vincent Chang, Director of IT and Logistics, SINGER

View From the CFO Office: Financial Drivers of the Supply Chain

Are you curious about the financial drivers of the business and how the supply chain model and processes impact those drivers? Viewing it from the perspective of an OEM in the high technology consumer electronics space, we will tie the supply chain model to the key financial metrics that the Investors, Board of Directors, and C-Level Staff focus on. This includes the role that Asian ODM and Contract Manufacturers, 3PL providers, and other supply chain the ecosystem that firms like Cisco Systems, Apple, and Philips Electronics manage.

Michael Tamaru, CFO, ALIPH-JAWBONE

Supply Chain- A Lever for Increasing Value

As wages continue to rise in China, its dominant position as first-choice for low cost manufacturing is being eroded. A clear strategy for companies already here in China is to increase the value added by their operations. Supply chain can be a lever for increasing value to customers and increasing competitiveness. This presentation explores 3 supply chain levers that can enhance a company's performance against competition - managing availability, controlling distribution and increasing responsiveness.

Michael McCool, Principal, A.T.KEARNEY

What Facebook and LinkedIn Teach Us About Sourcing and Procurement

Doing business is about building networks with business partners, identifying buyers, collaborating with suppliers.The more efficient we operate within these networks or micro-communities, the better we equip ourselves for future business environment and building a stronger foundation for growth. Tactica is going to show you how the next generation of e-sourcing platforms works as a social network for business and what a truly online e-procurement community looks like in the Cloud computing environment. It is not about savings on software licenses or the maintenance of hardware. It is about relationship, it is about business network.

Chee Wee Loke, Vice President, Tactica Asia

Building a Collaborative Supply Chain - The Case for Shared Pallet Pooling

After the recent economic downturn, more and more manufacturers and distributors in China realized that they may have to quit the 'confort zone' and strive to equip their current process with more added value. The key point is to show enough managerial courage to focus on the long term ROI rather than the trivial inconveniences. CHEP will display the whole success story of the palletized delivery between world famous manufacturer and one retailer through the following logic: Project Target, Project Preparation and SOP Confirmation, Project Trial Run and Barrier Solution, Project Achievements, Project Success Factors and Project Expansion Plan.

Frank Tonna, Director of Sales China, CHEP

Improving Competitive Advantage Through Innovation Sourcing
As supply chains are becoming increasingly globalized, combined with increasing levels of outsourcing, companies are becoming more dependent on their suppliers as a source of competitive advantage. Furthermore, as China is moving up the value chain, companies are increasingly looking for ways to tap into the local supplier base. Innovation sourcing has emerged as a viable approach for companies to shift focus from price-to value-based sourcing, and leveraging their suppliers as a source of innovation and technology. This presentation highlights the fundamentals of the concept, and showcases a real-life example from the consumer goods industry

Martin Lockström, Deputy Director, CHINA EUROPE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL

The Impact of Global Crisis in Supply Chain

The world economy is poised for further recovery but at varying speeds across and within regions. Due to the debt crisis, the recovery under way in the major advanced economies will be relatively sluggish compared with recoveries from previous recessions. At the same time, Asia has been moving into a leadership role in the world economy. What is the impact of the global crisis on the supply chains of the leading multinationals headquartered in the advanced economies, and the emerging MNCs in the developing economies? How will price pressures and shakeouts shape multinational operations worldwide, and especially in East Asia?
Dan Steinbock, Research Director of International Business, THE INDIA CHINA AMERICA INSTITUTE

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