Henry Brunekreef

ASCI Director and Director Advisory Services, Supply Chain and Operations Management

KPMG

John Marson

ASCI Accreditation Officer

A.L.T. Limited, APICS, The Fresh Connection

Laynie Kelly

ASCI Director and Marketing Manager ASIA Pacific

IPTOR

Andrew Hill

Head of Supply Planning

Brightstar Australia

Penny Bell

ASCI Director and Supply Chain Director, Medical Devices, ANZ

ASCI Director

Pieter Nagel

CEO

ASCI

Clint Bertenshaw

Senior Operations Officer

Australasian Supply Chain Institute

Platinum sponsor

GRA is Australia’s premier supply chain consulting firm specialising in supply chain strategy, planning and execution. We offer consulting, professional services, supply chain systems, training & education and benchmarking across a broad range of industries. Over the last two decades we have worked with more than 200 companies, identifying savings in excess of ten billion dollars. Our mission is to improve the competitiveness of the Australian supply chain industry. What drives us is turning our clients’ supply chains into a competitive advantage. Typical benefits for our clients include: 20-40% inventory investment reduction, increased service levels ranging up to 99.9%, 10%-15% reduction in supply chain operating costs, 5%-20% spend management savings, the ability to fund business initiatives from operating cash flow (OCF) improvements, improved return on capital employed (ROCE) AND a minimum 3:1 ROI (10:1 to 30:1 typical). http://www.gra.net.au/

Advisory partner

At Deloitte, we are guided by a common purpose: To make an impact that matters. Our Purpose defines who we are and why we exist. It holds true across our entire network, transcending the everyday and uniting our 264,000 practitioners, across 150 countries and 26 sectors. Learn how Deloitte achieves this at www.deloitte.com. About Deloitte Operations and Supply Chain Consulting Our globally recognized Operations and Supply Chain Consulting practices specialise in turning strategies into measurable and sustained results utilising comprehensive risk identification and management techniques. We work with Operations executives and their teams helping them to implement their corporate strategy and transform their core business and operations so they can prepare for growth whilst embracing the digital agenda and maximizing operational efficiency. Our Supply Chain practice focuses on delivering strategy driven value that optimises the networked supply chain and integrates advanced digital technologies, visualisation techniques andcapability uplift resulting in long term sustainable improvements. For more information, please visit our web site at www2.deloitte.com/supply-chain

Content partner

Lexian Solutions Pty Ltd (‘Lexian’) was established in 2000 as a Centre of Excellence in Supply Chain Management. Lexian is a privately owned Australian company offering a wide range of technology and supply chain management consulting services. Our team of experienced specialists utilises a diverse range of methodologies and leading edge software technologies from LLamasoft Inc. focussed on delivering implementable supply chain solutions to organisations and major events across the globe. Lexian is a leading user of supply chain optimisation software and can sell, install and provide comprehensive local support to the LLamasoft (formerly Barloworld SCS) inventory methodology and software known as Optimiza.

Exhibitor

For 25 years we have earned a reputation for building technology solutions that solve the most complex business problems in supply chain, inventory and now omni-channel retail fulfilment.

• 25+ year heritage as a world-class supply chain solutions company
• 9 consecutive years ranked as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems
• Order Management solution and real time retail applications named leader in the latest Forrester Wave ™ Omnichannel Order Management report
• 16 of the top 20 apparel retailers use our software solutions

In-program Roundtable Leader

Halo is a supply chain advanced analytics platform which offers customers an innovative blend of artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to drive greater supply chain performance. Halo’s Advanced Information Hub is a first-of-its-kind solution to help companies leverage enterprise data to generate new insight for competitive advantage. Halo customers include Mitre 10, Leatherman Tool Group, and NZ Safety Blackwoods (a Wesfarmers business).

Halo is a division of Logility, Inc., which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMSWA), named one of Forbes Magazine’s 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in America. For more information, Please visit www.halobi.com

Silver sponsor

Chainalytics’ offices in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Bangalore, Denver, Helsinki, Milan, Minneapolis, Singapore, and Sydney demonstrate Chainalytics’ global mix of thinkers, planners and doers, each possessing not only global but deep regional expertise. And many Chainalytics experts work across disciplines–from transportation, packaging optimization and supply chain design, network optimisation and operations to integrated demand and supply planning, S&OP, and sourcing. This flexibility provides client teams the insights and solutions they need to adapt to the most complex supply chain challenges. We’re known for using:

• Data and supply chain intelligence to drive decisions and outcomes for clients. Many of our clients rely on accurate data and models from the Freight Market Intelligence Consortium (FMIC) and Demand Planning Intelligence Consortium (DPIC) to make accurate business decisions. Membership within these communities allows executives to stay up-to-date on industry trends and market intelligence.
• A unique approach combining proven methodologies with perpetual learning. Chainalytics’ practitioners draw from both the knowledge behind hundreds of Chainalytics client engagements as well as cutting-edge supply chain practices.

Supported by

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Supported by

Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association, WISTA is the international network for women in shipping, trade and supporting industries and serves as a connector for more than 3,000 female professionals in 40 countries. WISTA Australia was established in 2011 and has been growing rapidly ever since. We are active in QLD, NSW, VIC and WA where we hold regular educational, networking, professional and personal development events. Our membership has great diversity across the broader maritime industry, trades and professions, and includes seafaring women as well as portside, logistics and trading professionals and women in support function roles. We bring together women new to the industry and women with decades of experience for a great mix of knowledge, mentoring, networking and platform for sharing interests and ideas

Silver sponsor

Logility provides supply chain optimization and advanced retail planning solutions that make “planning optimized” a reality. A pioneer of collaborative supply chain technology, Logility introduced its first solution to the market in 1996. Since that time and more than 1,300 customers later, Logility’s planning solutions leverage in-memory processing, algorithmic planning and machine learning to drive an intelligent response. Today Logility Voyager Solutions feature advanced analytics with continuous planning capabilities that help our customers make smart supply chain decisions – fast!

https://www.logility.com/

Exhibitor

DSI is the Digital Supply Chain Platform™ company that creates mobile-first and cloud supply chain solutions for the digital economy. Our easily personalized apps optimize inventory visibility and execution across the extended supply chain. DSI’s proven integration to backend systems increases business agility from the warehouse to the field. Visit www.dsiglobal.com to learn more.

Networking partner

At Anaplan, our aim is to make the world better by connecting organizations and people, so business leaders can make better-informed decisions. Recognised across five separate Gartner Magic Quadrants, the Anaplan platform offers a new approach to planning. To enable collaboration, the platform was built in the cloud, for the cloud. To address exploding data volume and variety, including data from unstructured and online sources, it leverages standards-based data integration that can bring in data from any source. Anaplan is the leader in Connected Planning. We provide solutions to create the dynamic, collaborative, and intelligent plans businesses need to win. Large financial institutions worldwide use Anaplan’s purpose-built software connecting the people and data required for trusted plans that drive business success. Based in San Francisco, we are a privately-held growth company with 18 offices, 150 expert partners, and more than 900 customers worldwide. To learn more, visit anaplan.com.

Patrick Vialle

Supply Chain Transformation Manager

Parmalat

Patrick is the Supply Chain Transformation Manager for Parmalat Australia (Lactalis group). The Transformation Project Team provides leadership in achieving Parmalat’s business objectives through effective management and execution of supply chain Transformation Projects, best practice deployment and related supply chain activities. Patrick has over 25 years of hands-on experience in Supply Chain , with companies like Kraft, Nestlé, or Lactalis. Jobs have ranged from Contract packing management in France for Kraft, Demand & Supply Planning for Nestlé PetCare in Italy, Supply Chain Manager for Nestlé zone AOA and later in New Caledonia, to current role as Supply Chain Transformation manager for Parmalat . Patrick’s area of expertise includes Demand Management, Project leadership, Process improvement and S&OP implementation. Patrick is a regular speaker on supply chain issues in forums as well as at the University of QLD (UQ) and at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

Carter McNabb

Partner

GRA

Carter is a founding Partner of GRA, Australia’s premier supply chain consulting firm specialising in supply chain strategy, planning and execution. Over its 20 year history, GRA has helped 200+ organisations across multiple industries identify combined savings of more than 10 billion dollars. GRA is focussed on practical results delivery, with a mission to turn clients’ supply chains into a competitive advantage. Carter has over 20 years of international supply chain advisory and transformation experience and taught at the Masters level within Monash University's Logistics & Supply Chain Management Program. With a series of published articles and white papers, press quotes and frequent speaking engagements, Carter is a recognised expert in the field. Importantly, he brings a healthy blend of theory and practical, proven experience to the subject of supply chain management.

Silver sponsor

JDA Software is the leading supply chain software provider powering today’s digital transformations. We help companies optimize delivery to customers by enabling them to predict and shape demand, fulfill faster and more intelligently, and improve customer experiences and loyalty. More than 4,000 global customers use our unmatched end-to-end software and SaaS solutions to unify and shorten their supply chains, increase speed of execution, and profitably deliver to their customers. Our world-class client roster includes 76 of the top 100 retailers, 77 of the top 100 consumer goods companies, and 8 of the top 10 global 3PLs. Running JDA, you can plan to deliver. www.jda.com

Silver sponsor

CBRE is Australia's largest commercial real estate services company providing solutions to property owners, investors and occupiers. With 115 dedicated industrial and logistics specialists in the Pacific Region they transact 2.75 Million square meters of logistics focused property annually. That’s just over 10,000 sqm per day.

In support of their clients industrial and logistics property needs, a global supply chain advisory practice was established. As a global practice, dedicated supply chain experts are in place in the US, Europe and Asia as well as the Pacific team based in Australia.

The supply chain advisory practice delivers business specific outcomes for clients that include strategic property solutions. Functional expertise in supply chain strategy, network design, facility design and operations optimisation deliver integrated solutions for clients capturing efficiencies and savings in the supply chain as well as the property and infrastructure sectors.