116 – Supply Chain Disruptions & Risk Management [May 2012]

“2011 was a tough year for high tech with both natural and political disasters disrupting global supply chains. In response, companies have restructured their supply chains for greater resilience. New B2B tools are available now to enable unstructured supply chain communication, reducing risk.”
Attend and learn how you can ensure business continuity for your company by providing on-demand data availability, completeness and reliability throughout your extended supply chain.

Keynote: Building Resilience Against Supply Chain Disruptions by Mark Morley Industry Marketing Director at GXS

Efficient Quality Data Availability and Usage – Next Milestone towards a fully integrated Supply Chain by Ulrike Melzer, Senior Manager Business to Business Services at Infineon and Mario Müller, Head of Business Planning & E-Business at Siltronic

Beyond ITIL – How to reduce risk of Supply Chain Disruptions with Total Productive IT operations & Lean IT principles by Mark Reinhardt of Kuehne + Nagel

* Topics: Kuehne & Nagel and Supply Chains; Kuehne + Nagel and IT; TheConcept of Lean IT; Adaption of KAIZEN Methods & Principles – The House of Lean IT; What kind of value can Lean IT provide to Supply Chains ?
* Conclusion – Can Lean IT reduce the risk of Supply Chain Disruptions?

“enliteB2B” the EDIFICE light B2B enabler by Dane Manes, B2B Process Adoption Group Chair and Jan Fuchs, enliteB2B Architect

EDIFICE embarked on a study identifying the bottlenecks preventing the proliferation of B2B integration in all layers of the business. The results of the study revealed that B2B message standards currently available are too complex. This complexity is responsible to the high investment businesses have to make before they can participate in an integrated B2B exchange with their partners.

Under the umbrella of the enliteB2B program EDIFICE launched a first deliverable: the enliteB2B format for the purchase order, the ASN and the invoice messages. Today, EDIFICE is ready to release those definitions to its membership.

Keynote: “Herding geese” The story of the Information Supply Chain in the last decade presented by Matthew Walker.

Attendees to the presentation by GXS will be offered a no-charge signed copy of the book “Herding Geese”.

Supply Chain Disruptions & Risk Management by Thorsten Domke Senior Director Customer Logistics Management at Infineon

Supply Chain risk management is getting more and more into focus. The presentation will explain the main reasons behind. For that, recent trends in Supply Chain management and the resulting need for a pro-active, integrated risk management are discussed. In the following, typical risks for disruptions are shown and their business impact is presented. Finally, operational risk management strategies are introduced and selected ones are presented in more detail.