Speakers of CHaINA '08 Live (Part 2)

Best Practices

Dual Sourcing for Short-Lifecycle Products

Leading-edge manufacturers have long used rapid prototyping to reduce a product’s time to market. Rapid prototyping employs a more responsive, yet more expensive, part to test the product’s design and to possibly begin initial production until the less expensive, established, part is available. In this paper, we examine whether it makes sense to transition back from the established part to the prototyping part at some point in the lifecycle. We use a pair of terms, slow part and fast part, to frame such a dual sourcing strategy for short-lifecycle products. We assume there are two potential orders from the slow part through the product lifecycle and frame the problem as a two-stage stochastic dynamic program where the decision variables are the two order quantities of the slow part and the timing of the second order. Two cases for this problem are analyzed:the first case considers multiple periods but uncorrelated demands while the second case considers two periods with correlated demands. Both cases are analytically solved and numerically tested with insights observed.
Yuelin Shen, Shanghai Univeristy, Finance and Economics

The Impact of oil price to China domestic transport
In the coming year, China have to not only face the fast increasing oil price, but also will suffer diesel supply shortage very often.The impact to domestics transportation will be huge, cost will be much higher and service control will much more difficult. The presentation will show year 2009 road transporation price perdiction and give supply chain managers some suggestions to deal with unstable diesel supply and continously transport price increasing.
Zhai xuehun, President, Chinaway Logistics

Risk Management

ISO 28000:2007 Supply Chain Security Standards Implementation & Benefits

ISO 28000:2007 is a specification for the security management system for the supply chain. Key elements of the security management system include security policy, security risk assessment and planning, implementation and operation, checking and corrective action as well as continuous management review. The standard takes a pragmatic and business-centric approach to risk management as a critical component of effective management. Invariably, the ISO 28000:2007 certification has enabled YCH Group to scale its security management system to manage all of the company’s specific security needs in a realistic, sustainable and cost-effective manner across its network of facilities across the Asia-Pacific.

Max Goh, Chief security officer, YCH Group

High Growth Markets

Retail Logistics - Impact on Warehouse design and workforce competencies in the United Arab Emirates and the wider Middle East.

The presentation will present a road map of Middle East logistics development (using the United Arab Emirates / Dubai) over the past ten years; lessons learnt and observations for the future.
The material will touch upon the emergence of DP World as a regional port manager - the development of the Dubai Logistics City as a multi model hub and the opportunities emerging in India. These developments have all had an impact on the design of new facilities - the skill sets required of the workforce and expecations from stake holders in service providers and end customers.

Mike Lee, Director, 347 Logistics

The B and C of BRIC

The business volume between Latin America and China has grown significantly, reaching US$ 102 billion in 2007, being US$ 51,068 billion exported to China and US$ 51,543 imported from China. Brazil accounts for about US$ 30 billion of this amount, being China’s biggest commercial partner, among Latin America’s countries. Moreover China is the 3rd largest commercial partner and destination for exports from Brazil.
This presentation highlights the current economic-commercial cooperation between Brazil and China, compares global companies sourcing initiatives among the two countries, describes the Brazilian companies sourcing efforts in China, and analyze further opportunities.

Martha Verçosa, Purchasing Profession Development Director, Brazilian Council of Purchasing Executives

WORKSHOPS

Make your supplychain activities most efficient with project management

In a lot of cases sourcing and supplychain activities are not successful, because they are only fulfilled by a line function approach and not as separate projects with a defined project organisation. Based on many practical experiences Wolfgang Hagn will show how to set up supply chain activities as projects and thus increase the chances for success by higher efficiency and quality in the processes.In interaction with the audience he will additionally collect and summarise experiences of the audience.
Wolfgang Hagn, Executive Partner, ME MBA

Spend Visibility and eSourcing

Supply management executives are now, more than ever, under pressure to deliver more savings, develop and manage strategic supplier relationships, accelerate procurement cycles, and maintain process excellence. Join our eSourcing workshop to learn about SPEND VISIBILITY and eSOURCING: Spend Visibility will allow you to consolidate your global spend and identify saving opportunities & eSourcing will assist you to execute effective strategic sourcing and to capture increased cost savings through online supplier negotiation.BravoSolution will present an interactive demo session of Spend Visibility and eSourcing (RFx and eBidding) solutions which will allow attendees to get a deep understanding of the topic.

Guillaume De Roquefeuil, Managing Director, BravoSolution

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