9.00 Opening Address From The Chair

9.10 INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDY: Transportation & 3PLs: Assessing Lead Times, Bottlenecks, Relationship Management & Cost Effective Results

Logistics is not just a line-item cost, but a vital part of the organisation, as important as manufacturing and sales within your chemical company. It is essential for chemical producers to increasingly integrate logistics into the highest levels of corporate planning within the supply chain; sharing proprietary systems to achieve greater connectivity with third-party logistics (3PLs).

• Drawing the most out of your 3PL provider: ensuring a faster, more efficient and cost-effective service and reduced costs
• Identifying supply chain silos en route to end-to-end supply chain optimisation: looking at lead times and road, rail and port bottlenecks
• Choosing the right 3PL for your chemical transportation and storage requirements
• Achieving cost-effective results such as shipment agility as a preferred customer, improved asset utilisation
• Outlining the effective collaboration with your 3PLs

William Loy
Supply Chain Director - Asia Pacific
THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY ASIA PACIFIC

9.50 CASE STUDY: Utilising Alternative Strategies Within Supply And Supply Chain Management: Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Outsourcing And Category Management

Given the challenges within the chemicals and plastics industries, many companies are turning to alternative strategies to ensure business processes and their supply chain are working at an optimum. This session will provide you with the insight into what some of Australia’s largest chemicals companies are doing to enhance category management, ensure a more strategic sourcing strategies and looking at supplier outsourcing.

• Looking at strategic sourcing and how this can assist in optimising your chemical supply chain
• Identifying the value and possibilities of supplier outsourcing: looking globally in order to enhance lead times and profitability for your chemical company
• Enhancing category management within the chemical supply chain: allocating appropriate ways to treat different areas of your supply chain
• Managing your staff through these changes in supply chain management: the necessary strategies to manage through the change in processes and alternative ways of doing business in the supply chain

Robert D’Alessandro
Procurement Manager
QENOS PTY LTD

11.00 PANEL DISCUSSION: Creating Effective And Efficient Supply Relationship Management Strategies

The chemical and plastics industry can be seen as one of the most complex industries to comprehend, in terms of supplier, distributor, manufacturer and 3PLs. This panel discussion gives delegates an opportunity to gain information on the strategies and processes being implemented within some of Australia’s most important chemicals and plastics companies. The panellists will discuss the important areas of supplier relationship management and speak about what is, and isn’t working in their organisation to give you a wide overview of the possible paths for success.

• Improving the end-to-end performance of your supply chain by developing systematic KPIs for your suppliers and 3PLs:
• Managing, measuring and creating KPIs for outsourcing partners
• Maximizing flexibility, visibility and performance improvement with your relationships within the chemical supply chain to ensure a robust and efficient supply chain
• Identifying weaknesses in your chemical supply chain to implement strategies for improvement within these areas
• Ensuring the competency of your suppliers and mitigating risk
• Encouraging collaboration between producer and distributors in order to create a greater level of service: maintaining a healthy relationship in challenging times
• Implementing thorough and robust contracts to optimise lead and response times and service levels within your chemicals supply chain

Panellists:

1.00 CASE STUDY: Ensuring Agility Within Inventory: Stored Vs. Not Stored And Ensuring Feed Stock Availability

Reducing the errors and risks involved within inventory of your supply chain can be the easiest and quickest way of saving costs within your chemicals company. Whether it’s finding less expensive, more consistent ways to get raw materials delivered to your manufacturing facilities, or getting assembled products in the hands of your consumer base, there are distinct components of effective supply chain inventory management.

• Implementing effective inventory strategies to ensure all stock information across the supply chain is efficient and accurate: inventory classification and management
• Assessing how effective inventory control can assist in reducing your bottom line
• Working towards achieving sustainable inventory reduction through:
• Improving planning
• Reducing working capital
• Decreasing costs
• Providing a link between operations planning and efficiency with detailed inventory management and optimisation

Sam Bastounas
Group General Manager - Functional Materials
NUPLEX INDUSTRIES LIMITED

1.40 Assessing The Value Of Real-Time Information & The Optimisation Elements This Creates Within Your Supply Chain

Real time information and the optimisation effective this can have for your supply chain are being realised and embraced by chemicals and plastics corporations around the world. The CHEP case study will look at how the company is working with customers to enable trading partners to connect their supply chain seamlessly and securely through the utilsation of RFID enabled CHEP platforms.

• Utilising RFID enabled platforms to connect your supply chain seamlessly and securely: the CHEP case study
• Assessing the connection: this connection can be across large or small geographic areas, enabling real-time optimisation that targets key organisational concerns such as operational efficiency, cost reduction and automation.
• Highlighting insights into the real world benefits and changes from case studies gathered from customers in vertical chains as diverse as retail, beverage and automotive
• The outlook and future strategies to continue optimising the supply chain within CHEP

Gerry Wind
Director – Material Intelligence Asia Pacific
CHEP

2.50 Improving Demand Planning& Procurement Processes To Ensure Forecasting Performance Within Supply Chain For Chemicals

With high materials and energy costs becoming a way of life, chemical companies must focus on finding ways to drive and manage demand for their products. Demand management impacts every aspect of a chemical company’s operations. This session will look at the essential tools, techniques and strategies required in effective demand and forecast planning and management.

• Developing and implementing best practice for determining and using demands
• Extracting the value of creating a roadmap to frame your demand and forecasting processes
• Outlining value-based demand planning within procurement: understanding how this can assist in your forecast planning and the necessary tools and techniques required for success
• Ensuring optimisation of your supply chain through effective procurement: Ensuring the product exists and is able to get out to the customer
• Utilising effective segmentation within demand planning for your chemicals supply chain

Joyce Loke
Procurement Manager
CLARIANT PTY LTD

3.30 Discussing The Issues Surrounding The National Strategic Level For The Transport & Logistics Industry

Freight and transport logistics is the next frontier in the drive towards supply chain efficiency. It plays an important strategic role in the supply chain of all industry sectors especially in this case; the chemicals and plastics industries. The success of this sector is a key factor in the nation’s overall competitiveness and economic performance. The sector is the key link between trading partners nationwide.

• Profiling the work currently being initiated by the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport Australia (CILTA) in building partnerships and strategies with Industry to ensure optimisation of the supply chain
• Outlining the role and strategies in place to assist in the chemicals and plastics supply chain from a transport and logistics perspective
• Discussing the issues surrounding the national strategic level for transport and logistics industry
• Building further partnerships and bridging gaps in order to ensure a seamless supply chain process

Hal Morris
Chief Executive Officer
THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF LOGISTICS & TRANSPORT AUSTRALIA (CILTA)

4.10 Final Remarks From The Chair

4.20 Close Of Conference