Emerging Supply Chain Tech Trends

Tuesday, Sep 14 2010 8:30 AM to Tuesday, Sep 14 2010 10:30 PM AWST

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Renaissance Zhongshan Park Hotel

1018 Changning Road
Shanghai China

Speaker Roland Chong, Denny McKnight, Larry Sweeney

Position: Asia Pacific Senior Director(Distribution& Logistics); Partner, Distribution Operations; Senior Vice President, Strategic Markets and Co-founder
Company: Estee Lauder Cosmetics, Tompkins Associates, Vocollect

Event Description

You and your colleagues are invited to join the Council for a breakfast seminar and discussion on "Emerging Supply Chain Tech Trends" with a focus on warehousing best practices on September 14 in Shanghai.

Supply Chain Technology Trends
This session will cover Emerging Technology Trends for Warehousing (WH) & Distribution Centre (DC) in China. This presentation shall cover the challenges for WH & DC in modern China, and introduce the key emerging order fulfillment technologies, including voice solution, poised for organizations to consider for adoption.

Customer Voice Implementations at Estee Lauder
Estee Lauder Companies is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. Our speaker Roland Chong, the Asia Pacific Senior Director (Distribution & Logistics) of Estee Lauder Cosmetics Company, is responsible for developing and implementing the Asia Pacific supply chain strategy, establishing an efficient and customer focused distribution service within the APAC region. He spear-headed and directed the teams in setting up Distribution Centers in Japan, China, South-east Asia and Korea. Voice solution was identified as the technology for productivity improvement, reducing picking error rate, achieving high accuracy rate, as well as reducing training time for workers, in Distribution Centers.

During the presentation, Roland will cover the following topics:
- Business and Operational Challenges faced by Estee Lauder Distribution Center in Korea
- The technology solutions they considered
- The reasons Estee Lauder selected Voice solution
- How these challenges are addressed by Voice Solution
- The results and business benefits it has achieved through this implementation

How to Put Voice to Work for You
As the co-founding member of the world's most successful voice company with

years of experience, Larry will share with you how voice technologies can be used in various businesses and market verticals. He will also compare voice to other types of supply chain solutions, and offer tips on what to look out for when making purchase decisions for voice.

When: Tuesday, Sep 14, 8:30 am, to be finished around 10:30
Fee: Council Members pay for RMB 150, Non-Member pay for RMB 300, a breakfast buffet will be served.
Venue: Renaissance Zhongshan Park, 1018 Changning Road (上海长宁路1018号龙之梦万丽酒店)

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Emerging Supply Chain Tech Trends

Tuesday, Sep 14 2010 8:30 AM to Tuesday, Sep 14 2010 10:30 PM AWST

Speaker Roland Chong, Denny McKnight, Larry Sweeney

Biography

Roland Chong, Asia Pacific Senior Director(Distribution& Logistics), Estee Lauder Cosmetics Company
Roland is currently the Asia Pacific Senior Director (Distribution & Logistics) of Estee Lauder Cosmetics Company, with key responsibilities in developing and implementing the Asia Pacific supply chain strategy, establishing an efficient and customer focused distribution service within the APAC region. Over the last 5 years, he spear-headed and directed the teams in setting up Distribution Centres in Japan, China, South-east Asia and Korea. He has more than 20 years of extensive experience in the fields of International Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Customer Service and Information Technology with several Multi-National Companies, including F&N Coca-Cola, Nike and General Electric Companies. Roland was instrumental in the transformation of the logistics business model in F&N Coca-Cola where he spent 6.5 years as the Operations & ECR Director, responsible for leading and integrating demand and supply planning, sourcing and logistics processes to significantly improve the performance of the total value chain.

Denny McKnight, Partner, Distribution Operations, Tompkins Associates, Inc.

A strong, hands-on supply chain manager with extensive experience in design and operations. Denny has spent much of his 24-year career involved with distribution logistics, warehousing and warehouse management systems. He is a specialist in the design and implementation of large-scale distribution, warehouse, material handling and control systems. In addition to his 18 years with Tompkins, Denny also served in a variety of supply chain roles at athletic apparel manufacturer Champion Products. He received his B.S. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from The Ohio State University. When not optimizing his customer’s supply chains, Denny enjoys mountain bike riding, waterskiing, and playing really BAD golf.

Larry Sweeney, Senior Vice President, Strategic Markets and Co-founder, Vocollect
Larry Sweeney is Senior Vice President- Strategic Markets with Vocollect, Inc. Based in Tokyo office, Larry has a corporate sales strategy and business development role focused on supporting the Japan office and developing a go-to-market strategy for Vocollect expansion throughout Asia-Pacific. Larry co-founded Vocollect in 1987 with Roger Byford. Prior to joining Vocollect, Larry served as a product development engineer for Westinghouse Electric Corporation, a U.S.-based global supplier of technology products for the power generation and defense industries. Larry helped to create a line of voice-activated quality control systems for inspection of hybrid-integrated circuits used in missile guidance systems.