114 – Integrated Supply Chains: Achievements and a look to the Future [June 2011]

“High Tech companies have focused on core processes (Ordering, Forecast, Logistic data, Invoice, etc.) in their supply chain to achieve an effective integration level with their partners in order to increase speed and flexibility, reduce manual handling and cost.Can integrated supply chain solutions fulfil the expectations of companies and what are the key lessons learned to become even better?In the future companies face even more cost pressures and requirements from their customers to provide the correct product, with the right volume at the right time in the right place. Hence requirements regarding efficient and effective supply chain processes are and will become a key competitive advantage.What role will B2B (process and automation definitions) play to support the fulfilment of these requirements and help companies to stay one step ahead against their competition, using solutions that fit any size partner?”

Siltronic Welcome and Keynote by Ryan Rhoades, Head of Strategic Supply Chain at Siltronic

“The Black Swan Theory. Nobody has a crystal ball but there are numerous macro events occurring that will impact the supply chain “ecosystems” of various industries around the world in the future.”

SAP’s Strategy for Business Network Collaboration – Portfolio and use cases by Petra Frenzel, Solution management B2B , SAP

“Solutions for efficient and effective supply chain processes require fast and efficient onboarding and close backend integration.
Integration can become a commodity or increase in complexity, all scenarios need to be addressed. SAP wants to provide a portfolio, which allows you to be equally agile and cost effective
Integrated supply chains are the base for transactional networks, which will become the foundation for further business network collaboration
We would like to give you an overview about SAPs B2B offering and further Business Network approach, highlighting the different use cases of our customer base.”

Building Innovation and Resilience Into Demand Driven Supply Chains by Paul Lord of Gartner Research

“Today’s supply chains must do more than execute transactions, control cost and manage inventory. The global business environment requires supply chains that are focused on value from two perspectives: the creation of value through innovation and the protection of value through resilience. This presentation will provide an overview of some key capabilities required for supply chains to develop as they become business partners contributing to joint value with customers and suppliers.“

EU Import Control System (ICS) as a Portal Solution to connect all Parties and how it is in use at Bosch by Ulrich Schlummer of Bosch and Martin Engelhardt of SupplyOn.

“There are new EU regulatory requirements to announce imports to the customs offices. They are mandatory for everybody starting from 1st of March 2011.
Together with other companies BOSCH and SupplyOn created a portal solution to collect all necessary data from the suppliers and to forward them to the responsible carriers.
The solution is combined with the ASN (Advanced Shipping Notification) process.
All companies are invited to join the solution. We will show you how this solution is working and how it is used at BOSCH.”

Centralized B2B content provisioning for process extension “Standards don’t matter” by Lutz Jäger, VP Solution Management at Crossgate

“Following the Business Network strategy of SAP, Crossgate provides a centralized content approach for all B2B relevant processes in the High Tech and other industries.
We would like to show how the combination of
•the IDOC and Enterprise Services based predefined backend integration,
•the meta-format approach and
•the centralized repository with the preconfigured business partner profiles
enable companies like Siltronic to integrate their Supply Chain partners with the needed flexibility.”

Nokia – from Process Automation to end-to-end Supply Chain Integration by Matthias Gehrken of Nokia

“Nokia is at a critical juncture, where significant change is necessary and inevitable in our journey forward,” said Stephen Elop, Nokia President and CEO. “Today, we are accelerating that change through a new path, aimed at regaining our smartphone leadership, reinforcing our mobile device platform and realizing our investments in the future.” Learn how the new strategy impacted Nokias supply chain integration strategy and how Nokia moves from deploying process automation packages to a more holistic Supply Chain integration.”

Efficient Forecasting Processes – Next Milestone towards a fully integrated Supply Chain by Beatrice Köhler – Manager Processes Methods & Tools at Infineon and Mario Müller – Head of Business Planning & E-Business at Siltronic

“Infineon and Siltronic wants to go towards integrated supply chain processes even further. The next B2B step is now done with an efficient forecasting processes based on a scheduling agreement model. The case study provides an overview about the course of project, achieved improvements, lessons learned and an outlook about the next common B2B procjects.”

B2B integration in the Chemical Industry – balancing customer responsiveness and internal standardization over the past 10 years and in the future by Daniela Huber, E-Business Manager at Wacker Chemie AG and Simon Hardy, Key Account Director at Elemica

“Wacker and Elemica will provide an insight on how process integration in the Chemical industry has developed over the last 10 years. The presentation focuses on customers changing requirements and how the close collaboration between Wacker and Elemica helped to respond to new requests and still keep a high level of standardization.”

Academic View: Adressing Transparency, Communication and Participation in Cross-Organisational Enterprise 2.0 Projects by Prof. (FH) Mag. Gerald Petz, Head of Studies Marketing and Electronic Business Bachelor and Dietmar Nedbal, Researcher at the Digital Econoy Unit both from the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences FH OÖ Studienbetriebs , Steyr Campus

“Enterprise 2.0 based IT projects linking value chain partners offer great potential for flexible, loosely-coupled integration and ad-hoc information exchange. But, stakeholders’ readiness, willingness and ability to cooperate need to be considered and addressed mercilessly to successfully implement common strategies, systems and processes. To increase the probability to succeed in such projects and to enhance the intensity of cooperation and trust across the value chain transparency, communication and participation need to be addressed. By presenting an integrated project methodology, the authors bridge the gap between existing scientific models and requirements for cross-organizational Enterprise 2.0 projects. The proposed methodology integrates change management’s critical success factors and principles as well as methods applicable to Enterprise 2.0 projects. The contribution of the paper is to explain and reflect the performed methodology as well as activities and selected key results from two pilot projects and to match the results with critical success factors which were derived from literature. With it, it provides elaborative insights into key features of Enterprise 2.0 platforms and project management.”

AsiaB2B Update by Casey Teo of Freescale, AsiaB2B Chair
Distribution Channel Management Update by Juergen Linkens of Freescale
B2B Process Adoption Update by Dane Manes of GXS
E-Invoicing by Tony Nisbett of IBM
Automatic Data Capture by Erich Guenter of IBM