Individual sessions
13.15 Operations Transformation at Carlsberg UK – with Deloitte
The ever present challenge for supply chain leaders is year on year to deliver improving levels of service to an increasing mix of customers at a ever reducing cost. As upward cost pressures increase, the room for manoeuvre within existing infrastructures becomes limited. Against this backdrop the need to invest wisely in optimising processes and business applications in order to reduce costs and failure rates becomes paramount. However in a fast moving and complex supply chain the prospect of major business upheaval can be daunting. Deloitte and SAP's operational excellence initiative is designed to help answer the critical questions and shows how, by taking a focused approach, sustainable benefits can be achieved without disrupting business performance. Jim Houghton from Deloitte will relay his experience of just such an initiative at a major UK brewer and outline the key success factors which allowed the organisation to implement SAP WMS and re-engineer their outbound logistics processes without the operation missing a beat.
14.00 Next Practice – with Atos Origin
The Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry may be facing its greatest challenge yet. Ever-tougher global competition, tightening legislation, the need for more rigorous compliance, consumer demands for environmentally sustainable products and the impact of the current economic climate have all increased pressure on costs and margins. All of this unrelenting pressure is driving the need for better decision-making and organizational responsiveness, which requires greater operational visibility and more effective internal and external collaboration. Given the Industry's continued proliferation of poorly integrated legacy systems, there’s plenty more to do to achieve these goals. In light of this, Pete Gray from Atos Origin's Centre of Expertise for CPG will present Atos's latest "Next Practice" developments in Integrated Business Planning and Sustainability. Utilising SAP's latest products, these solutions provide the level.
14.45 Perfect Plant: manufacturing operational excellence – with Logica
Manufacturing organisations are facing competitiveness issues, leading to pressure to reduce cost and streamline operations, whilst improving quality and compliance. In this workshop, Logica will outline SAP’s Perfect Plant offering, showing how you can achieve improved manufacturing operations, integration and intelligence by connecting your business and plant information systems to deliver operational excellence.
15.30 Obtain B2B excellence by enhancing your data integration with your business partners – with SEEBURGER
Trends show that integration with business partners increasingly requires global messaging, full integration with SAP, consolidation of B2B systems and maximum visibility of data for business users. As such, delivering operational B2B excellence enables competitive business advantage. Through the data integration functionality provided by the SAP XI/PI and the additional B2B functionality provided by Seeburger, you have the optimal basis for supporting a strategy of enhanced data integration.
The Seeburger XI/PI Adapters are being used by Amcor Flexibles for all of their EDI messaging across Europe as part of a corporate SAP strategy. Jürgen Schieler from Amcor Flexibles, a leading supplier of packaging solutions to many industry sectors including FMCG & Healthcare, will present the benefits of this strategy and discuss their experience of implementing and using the Seeburger Adapters for EDI, B2B and internal integration with legacy systems.
Seeburger is recognised as a leading B2B solutions provider by Gartner, providing standalone B2B gateways, embedded functionality within SAP XI/PI and most recently its 4invoice eInvoicing solution. With 28 Seeburger Adapters fully SAP certified, Seeburger is totally compliant with the SAP NetWeaver strategy.
16.15 Global Systems and Local Problems – with LRS
More and more organisations are becoming truly global; creating one operation whose reach extends around the world, instead of having multiple, independent operations in many countries. When enterprises scale up a national infrastructure to a single unified global infrastructure, the methods that have worked adequately at the country level often prove to be unsuitable on a global basis.
For manufacturing companies, even simple tasks, such as the need to print labels and barcodes is imperative. LRS as specialists in Enterprise Output Management have helped the global producer SCA and many other companies, manage their SAP output on a global basis, providing increased efficiencies and cost savings.
In this session, LRS will explain how SCA overcame output management problems, exploring the implications and cost benefits to the business.