Conference Partner:

Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world’s largest enterprise software company. For more than 30 years, Oracle has led the industry through continuous innovation and a relentless focus on customer success, providing reliable, secure, and integrated technologies that help customers access the knowledge they need to become leaders in their industry while responding to market conditions with speed and agility. Today Oracle provides database, middleware, and collaboration products; enterprise business applications; application development tools; and professional services for businesses and organisations worldwide. For more information, visit www.oracle.com

Platinum Sponsor:

Oliver Wight has a 30 year track record of delivering business improvement to some of the world’s best-known organisations. With a team of professionals offering a wealth of experience, Oliver Wight is largest consultancy of its type, with offices throughout Europe, North and South America, and the Asia Pacific region.

At the leading edge of management thinking and practice, our Integrated Business Planning (IBP) model lies at the heart of our clients’ journey to outstanding business performance.  Oliver Wight were the originators of sales and operations planning (S&OP) and IBP can most simply be described as advanced S&OP.  However, integration is what distinguishes IBP from its predecessor. Unlike S&OP, IBP brings a truly strategic perspective; it is a drumbeat for managing the business, linking diverse processes - in the extended supply chain, product and customer portfolios, customer demand and strategic planning - into one seamless management process.

Lead Gold Sponsor:

SAF AG - SAF Simulation, Analysis and Forecasting AG specializes in the development of automated ordering and forecasting software for retailers and industry. SAF deploys the demand chain management approach, which controls replenishment planning based on consumer demand patterns. SAF software assists users to realize cost savings and optimizes general logistics conditions. As a result, significant competitive advantages are achieved along the entire supply chain – lower inventories, improved product availability, as well as higher customer satisfaction. Companies like METRO Group, dm-drogerie markt, Douglas, Rossmann (Poland) and Foodstuffs (New Zealand) benefit by using SAF solutions in store and warehouse replenishment.

Gold Sponsor:

Crimson & Co is a specialist supply chain consultancy. Our consultants are drawn from blue chip organisations and we bring practical experience of cross industry best practice to design and develop the supply chains of our clients. Just as importantly, we use that knowledge to deliver tangible bottom line results. We have worked with companies across the globe and recent clients include Avon Cosmetics, British American Tobacco, PZ Cussons, Tesco, Shell Lubricants and Novartis. We have a team of full-time employees, giving us total control over quality and a unified focus on client value. 
Website: www.crimsonandco.com

Geodis - As a global logistics provider, Geodis is a European group with a worldwide scope. The Group's ability to coordinate all or part of the supply chain (air and sea freight, groupage and express, contract and reverse logistics, part and full truck loads) enables it to support its customers in their strategic, geographical and technological developments and to meet the specific needs of each key sector of the economy. Across a network covering 120 countries, the Group’s 26,000 employees bring a wealth of multicultural experience. In 2008, Geodis posted net sales of nearly €5.3 billion. Geodis Logistics is the contract logistics Division of the Geodis Group, Geodis Wilson is the freight management Division. Since November 2008, Geodis is part of the French Railway SNCF.

PA Consulting Group transforms the performance of organisations. Clients call on our independent, employee-owned, global firm when they want an innovative solution, a highly responsive approach, and delivery of hard results.

PA's supply chain team is experienced in diverse sectors, from life sciences and healthcare through to manufacturing and consumer goods. In a global environment and at times of unprecedented uncertainty and economic pressure organisations are relying on their extended supply chains to deliver a competitive advantage. With its clients PA sees global dynamics such as price volatility, financial instability and supplier challenges putting supply chain performance increasingly at risk. PA has deep expertise in this field and firmly believes that organisations which focus on the critical aspects of supply chain capability and agility will be best positioned to deliver a competitive response to these challenges.

www.paconsulting.com    

Management Dynamics, Inc. is the leading provider of Global Trade Management (GTM) solutions that improve the performance of global supply chains for importers, exporters, logistics service providers, and carriers. The company's solutions synchronize the flow of information among trading partners, optimize supply chain execution decisions, and streamline import and export processes to ensure regulatory compliance and minimize cost and risk involved in cross-border transactions. If reducing total landed costs, optimizing your supplier base, accelerating cash-to-cash cycles, and complying with all import and export controls are important to your business, you should be talking to us.

One Meadowlands Plaza
East Rutherford, NJ 07073
201-935-8588
Solutions@ManagementDynamics.com
www.ManagementDynamics.com

Founded in 1989, TXT e-solutions is an international software products and solutions vendor and leader in “Strategic Enterprise Solutions”; delivering the ability for organisations to better manage their value chain processes.

Based on best-in-class industry practices, TXT’s TXTPERFORM2008 is a complete SCM suite that delivers an exceptional combination of deep functionality and scalable technology, addressing end-to-end supply chain processes. TXTPERFORM2008’s supply chain intelligence capabilities drive fact based decision making, empowering users to assess the trade-offs to ensure alignment to business goals and improve their business performance to positively impact the bottom line.

Sponsors:

Arkenis is one of Europe’s leading Supply Chain Logistics Services, Outsourcing and Technology businesses and an Oracle Partner.  In addition to providing comprehensive transportation management, collaborative logistics and fourth party logistics services, we leverage our unique combination of operational expertise, consultancy and systems know-how to deliver a portfolio of supply chain technology solutions based on the Oracle Transportation Management platform to drive significant value for customers in a cost effective, low risk model.  Arkenis is also the leading provider of OTM consulting expertise in EMEA.

www.arkenis.com

This year BSI will be exhibiting supply chain compliance management technology solutions as well as running one 50 minute workshop.

The proven web-based Entropy Software™ from BSI provides a framework for controlling and reducing corporate risk associated with supply chain, social & ethical, (and other risk) compliance issues. Find out how multinational enterprises already use the Entropy platform to optimise, and continually improve their internal and external supply chain compliance management.

Don't wait until your supply chain damages your brand and reputation.

Companies choose GXS to solve their critical global supply chain management challenges by reducing the complexity inherent in globalisation, improving customer satisfaction through higher responsiveness and enhancing results by improving organisational agility.

GXS is a global B2B e-commerce and integration services company that delivers global B2B e-commerce integration solutions to over 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Through the company’s key offerings, GXS Trading Grid® and GXS Managed Services, we enable simplified document exchange, enhanced supply chain visibility and streamlined communications with trading partners.

Our cloud computing platform, GXS Trading Grid, eliminates the ongoing complexities and costs of do-it-yourself B2B integration. GXS Managed Services enables customers to offload complex B2B e-commerce requirements to GXS, resulting in increased revenue and lower total cost of operations.

GXS enables its customers to become Active Businesses, where information flows freely throughout a company’s supply chain. By strategically leveraging this information, they gain an extraordinary competitive advantage.

Visit us at www.gxs.co.uk.

Exhibitors:

Terra Technology is the leading provider of demand sensing and inventory optimization software for consumer products companies. Terra's solutions use downstream data like POS to improve supply chain performance, reducing forecast error up to 50 percent and inventory up to 20 percent. More accurate forecasts save money, lower inventory, improve customer service and decrease waste. Three of the five largest consumer packaged goods companies, and some of the world’s best-known brands, rely on Terra, including Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Kraft Foods, ConAgra Foods and Campbell Soup. For more information, please visit www.terratechnology.com or call 203-847-4007 x111.

Crossgate offers the world's first Business-Ready Network, guaranteeing 100% integration of business partners, clients and suppliers. A single connection to the Network means electronic data exchange with any business partner regardless of technical capability. Crossgate's B2B-360° Services powered by SAP provide clients direct access to all integrated business partners in the B2B transaction network via their SAP systems. Crossgate’s legally compliant eInvoicing Services also provides an innovative and 100% secure solution to cover the entire process of incoming and outgoing invoices. More than 40,000 business partners, representing over 10 industries, currently exchange documents and data via the Business-Ready Network. www.crossgate.com

Company profile to follow

Glue Reply is part of the Reply Group of companies. The Reply Group is built on a ‘network’ business model and consists of a number individual companies, each with their own specialism and core competence.  The Reply Group gives us the flexibility of a small organisation with the support of a major international Group.

At Glue Reply we focus on four things:

• Architecture :  Enterprise & Solution Architecture.  This is all about understanding, categorising and organising the resources and assets of the Enterprise to enable business and IT transformation.
• Solution Design & Delivery : This is all about defining and delivering best in class solutions that meet the needs of the Enterprise.
• Data & Information :  This is all about helping organisations unlock the value of strategic asset that is their data
• ITX : This is all about helping IT leaders create class leading IT capabilities and organisations

Each of these areas is focussed on helping IT deliver more value to the business.

The Glue approach is to leverage our best practice IP, domain experience and expert people in order to deliver the best outcome for our clients.