1. business and industrial
2. business operations
3. management
4. supply chain management

Programme (NB ‐ dates and venues may be subject to change)
Sunday 31 May
Registration is open and attendees are warmly invited to collect all documents and materials for the conference ahead. Come and meet the Upavon and SAPICS teams who will be your point of reference for all enquiries throughout the conference. For those delegates not able to arrive before 19:00 don't worry! Registration will be open again on Monday morning from 07:00 ‐ plenty of time to do the admin then! However, all delegates wanting to attend a workshop on this afternoon or the Africa Cafe must be sure to register and re‐confirm your place on the workshop of your choice before 14:00 ‐ please don't be late for the workshops or your place may be in jeopardy!
Workshop 1 ‐ Supply Chain Workshop 2 ‐ Overcoming Workshop 3 ‐ Career Clinic : Workshop 4 ‐ Reverse the Virus Workshop 5 ‐ Supply Chain Leadership – the key to infrastructure challenges in supply Assessing the Vitals of your Supply Outbreak!
Analytics for the Discrete & operational excellence
chains in Africa
Chain Career
Derek Rynhoud CDDP, Technical Process Industries
Joe Walden CPIM, CFPIM, Beverley Kujawa‐Waugh Associate Chantal Kading, Managing Director Consultant at Pathfinder Logistic David Hinchman CPIM, Lecturer at University of Kansas, Professor in Supply Chain at The People Shop, RSA
Solutions, RSA
Manager JD‐QPS & Order USA
Management, University of South Vincent van der Riet, Technical Fulfillment Integration John Director at Pathfinder Logistic Africa, RSA
Deere & Co, USA
14:00 ‐ 17:30
Solutions, RSA
Hannie Badenhorst‐Weiss Professor Alan Milliken CPIM, CIRM, in the Department of Business CFPIM, CSCP, CPF, CSOP, Management, University of South Senior Manager Supply Africa, RSA
Chain Capability at BASF, USA
from 12:00
Workshop 6 ‐ The Need for Leadership – it’s not so new but it is so true
David Manning, Senior Partner at Delos Partnership Limited, UK
Workshop 7 ‐ Mindfulness to becoming a Successful Supply Chain Manager
Brian Atwater PhD, CPIM, Jonah, Professor of Operations Management, Indiana University Southeast, USA and Paul Pittman CFPIM, CSCP, APICS Master Instructor, Jonah, PhD, Professor of Operations Management, USA
Workshop 8 ‐ Overcoming the 10 major problems of ERP
Keith Launchbury CFPIM, CIRM, CSCP, President of Keith Launchbury and Associates, USA
Workshop 9 ‐ Company Vision Aligned throught the Supply Chain
Greta Froise CPIM, CSCP, Managing Consultant, BizzCo, South Africa Workshop 10 ‐ Dude, where’s my stuff? …..because using open, global standards are now table stakes for survival in supply chains!
Gary Hartley, General Manager Sector Development at GS1 New Zealand Inc., New Zealand
How RISK could ‘Flatline’ the Pulse of your Supply Chain ‐ The Africa Café – Inspired by the globally successful APICS World Café. A highly interactive discussion group session ‐ Supply Chain Risk is a hidden liability for many organisations. These days asking a seemingly casual question such as “How’s the weather?” can have more worrying connotations. Many companies are having to take measures to anticipate potential natural disasters. It’s not just natural disaster affecting businesses, supplier and service 15:00 ‐ 17:30
providers contract risks, economic risk etc can cripple the best plans. However, amazingly, many organisations lack a formal process to mitigate risk. How does your organisation shape up? What personal experiences have you had in managing risk within your organisation? What advice can you share?
Is this your first SAPICS Conference? If so then this session is a must. Join experienced and committed SAPICS conference attendees who have attended many conferences over the years. They will explain to you how to get the best from your experience over the next two days. Learn the tricks of maximising your 17:30 ‐ 18:00 attendance, how to plan and how to network to maximum benefit. It's a valuable half hour session which you wont regret. The best part of all is that you get to meet other first time attendees right from the outset so you will have people to share your conference experience with!
Celebrate the opening of the 2015 exhibition at SAPICS 2015! The varied and many exhibitors have gone to tremendous efforts to ensure that their exhibition stand will entice you to find out more about their products and services. Don't disappoint them 18:00 ‐ 20:30 and maximise the opportunity to network and learn. While doing so you will be offered a satisfying evening meal accompanied by complimentary drinks (local and selected wines, beers and soft drinks). The combination of good food, good company and entertainment will guarantee and evening you will enjoy. The evening ends at a reasonable hour to ensure you get a good night's rest in preparation for hard work ahead!
For full programme details please click on each presentation in the table. All other conference detail, including the speaker information can be found on the SAPICS 2015 Conference Website at www.conference.sapics.org or telephone +27 11 (0) 23 6701
Monday 1 June 07:00
Registration is open for those people unable to attend Sunday to collect their conference documentation before the start of 2 days of hard w
Ballroom North
Ballroom South
Pilanesberg B
Pilanesberg A
Eland
Leopard
Lynx
Eagle
08:00 ‐ 08:15 Official Conference Opening by the SAPICS President
BEYOND THE NOISE: The Unfolding South African Political Landscape 08:15 ‐ 09:05 2015 – 2025 ‐ Justice Malala, Award‐winning journalist, television host, political commentator and columnist, RSA
The Power of Decoupling ‐ Chad Building your Personal Brand Equity ‐ Temitope Ogunfayo, CPIM, Supply Network Operations Group Manager at Procter & Gamble Egypt Smith CDDP, Partner at Demand 09:10 ‐ 10:00
Driven Institute, USA
10:00 ‐ 10:30
Overcoming the Catch 22 of S&OP Implementation ‐ Joe Shedlawski, S&OP Coach, R.A.Stahl Company, USA
If you are not able to attend the Sunday evening networking event in the Superbowl now is your chance to meet up with everyone in one place at the same time! Mingle with fellow conference goers, catch up on what you might have missed the day before hand or in previous sessions. Interact with the exhibitors and be sure to enter the exciting competitions that these committed organisations have put together for your delight!
Transforming Big Data into Supply Chain Analytics ‐ Alan Milliken CPIM, CIRM, CFPIM, CSCP, CPF, Senior. Manager. Supply Chain Capability 10:30 ‐ 11:20 Development at BASF, USA
Why Top Companies are embracing Supply Chain Design as a core business process to drive sustained competitive advantage Global Perspectives, Local Application ‐ a Case Study
Phillip Kruger, Supply Chain Strategy Manager at Vector Logistics and Rod Stout, Co‐founder & Director, Business Modelling Associates, RSA
Culture Eats Strategy … and How to Deal with It ‐ Steven Melnyk CSCP, CFPIM, Ph.D, Professor of Operations and 11:30 ‐ 12:20 Supply Chain Management at Michigan State University, USA
Demand Driven MRP and the Formalized Sales and Using SCOR to Drive Your Process Improvement
Journey Towards Supply Chain Operations Planning (S&OP) – KFC Case Study ‐ Elizbe Rohde, Derinda Ehrlich, CPIM, CSCP, SCOR‐P, Maturity
Vice President, Corporate and Steven Montgomery CSCP, General Supply Chain Manager at YUM! Restaurants International, RSA
Channel Services | APICS
Manager: Logistics at ABE Construction Chemicals, RSA and Kien Leong CPIM, CDDP, Partner at Production‐Scheduling.com, UK
Demand Driven MRP in action – An inside look at 3 Case Studies ‐ Erik Bush CDDP, Chief Executive Officer, Programme Director at Demand Driven Technologies, USA
S&OP/IBP – The power of an organization that beats with one heart ‐ Monika Wates CSCP, S&OP Manager at Goodyear Tyre and Rubber, RSA
Supply Chain in our Every Day Life – Back to Basics
Onicca Mailula, Materials Manager, Tongaat Hulett Starch, RSA
Feeling hungry? Need an opportunity to absorb all you have heard in the presentations thus far? Now's the perfect chance to do so. Good food, company and conversation await in the Superbowl with the exhibtors and fellow conference attendees. Visit 12:20 ‐ 13:30 the stands and enter the competitions, meet up with people you have been wanting to see during the year but not had the time, use the conference app (instructions on the voucher in your badge holder) to set up meetings during breaks, or simply sit and enjoy a good meal amongst the friends of your supply chain community.
Keep Calm and Identify, Capture, Share ‐ Gary Hartley M.Supply Chain Logistics Management, General Manager 13:30 ‐ 14:20 Sector Development at GS1 New Zealand
supplychainforesight 2015: Embracing change for a sustainable future
Mark Cleeve‐Edwards, Senior Marketing Manager at Barloworld Logistics, RSA
Demand Driven MRP ‐ A Case Study ‐ Laurent Vigouroux CSCP, CDDP, Vice President Quality at Bernard Controls, France
Planning critical slow and non‐
Smart Supply Chains: Blood on a Case Study : Applying Inventory Management Principles to Ordinary moving items within an African Returnable Basis
Schools ‐ Can It Work? ‐ Joyce Lewis, Mining and MRO context ‐ Riaan Ravi Reddy, Bachelors in MAEd, CPIM, CSCP, C.P.M. President, Burger CSCP, Solutions Architect, Biochemicals, MBA, Chief APICS Los Angeles Chapter, USA
Barloworld Logistics, RSA
Operations Officer at South 14:30 ‐ 15:00 African National Blood Service and Eddie Fourie, BEng, MBA, General Manager at TrenStar, RSA
Component Inventory Reduction in a Mid‐Sized Beauty Company
James Fusco CPIM, Manager: Materials Management & Strategic Accounts at Perricone MD Cosmeceuticals, USA
Meet the International Why become Internationally Certified in Speaker ‐ Temitope Ogunfayo
Supply Chain Management? A discussion and presentation facilitated by Ken Titmuss CFPIM, CSCP, SCOR‐P, CPF, PLS, CS&OP, CDDP, CSCA
Taking Action to Build Consensus and Resolve Conflict
Dave Hinchman CPIM, Manager, JD‐QPS and OF Integration, Enterprise Strategic Quality at Deere & Company, USA
How to optimize stock and Meet the International service level in a small but Speaker ‐ Alan Milliken
complex market; A case study of a dairy product manufacturer in Mauritius ‐ Thierry Boullé, Managing Director, Simera Ltd, Mauritius
Workshop 11 ‐ 20 Steps to Improve Productivity in Your Warehouse
Martin Bailey PREng, MscEng, Chairman at Industrial Logistic Systems, RSA ‐ concludes at 17:00
Workshop 15 ‐ Lego Business Play – Breaking down Barriers and Building Understanding
Matt Suttner, Director Sly Media, RSA and Kristy Suttner‐
Stride Director Chrysallis, RSA ‐ concludes at 17:00
Enjoy a break in the Superbowl with the exhibitors and fellow conference attendees. This is another exceptional opportunity to network, share ideas and generally get the most out of spending time with your peers. Tea and Coffee will be available to keep 15:00 ‐ 15:30 you going until evening drinks and supper later in the day.
Supply Chain Workforce and Leader Development‐ Abe Eshkenazi, CSCP, CPA, CAE, CEO 15:30 ‐ 16:20 at APICS, USA
Extreme Makeover: How a leading IT company transformed its value chain in 12 months ‐ Maha Muzumdar, Vice President, Oracle Corporation, USA
Sun Tzu and Supply Chain Management ‐ Joe Walden CFPIM, Senior Lecturer, 16:30 ‐ 17:20 University of Kansas, USA
The impact of bilateral China – Africa trade growth on African Supply Chains: Getting Your Business Ready
Jacques Marais, Chief Operating Officer at Beijing Axis, China
Why are South African Supply Chains at their Best ‐ Meet the International Operating Models for Africa ‐ Manufacturing Companies not Making Children Smile
speaker ‐ Chad Smith
Julian Tasker, Director, EMEIA Exploiting the Local Operation Smile
Supply Chain Strategy, UK and Wayne Whiffler, Executive Director Advantages? ‐ Dawid Janse van at EY, RSA
Rensburg, Managing Director at Cargo Solutions, RSA
workshop continues
Workshop continues
Understanding and improving The Logistics Barometer – Meet the International the Pulse of your Supply Chain ‐ what is driving South Speakers ‐ Lauren Vigouroux African logistics costs? ‐ and Thierry Boulle
Lloyd Snowden, Managing Partner at Oliver Wight, UK
Zane Simpson, Researcher at Stellenbosch University, RSA
Celebrate the end of the day with drinks and delicious snacks with the exhibitors and fellow conference attendees in the Superbowl. Here's another opportunity to network, enter competitions and enjoy discussing the 17:20 ‐ 20:00 presentations of the day. The evening is planned to end at a reasonable time to enable you to enjoy the entertainment and, should you wish, take advantage of a meal at one of the many restaurants at Sun City or simply get an early night in preparation for an early start the next day.
Tuesday 2 June 2015
Ballroom North
Ballroom South
Pilanesberg B
Pilanesberg A
Myths, Misconceptions & Absurdities: Misadventures in the World of Supply Chain Management ‐ Steven Melnyk CSCP, CFPIM, PhD, Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Michigan State 08:30 ‐ 09:20
University, USA and Colin Seftel CSCP, CFPIM, Trainer & Consultant at PSQ, RSA
The pulse of Africa’s healthcare supply chains benefit from South African expertise ‐ Gavin Pearson, Director International Operations at Imperial Health Sciences, RSA
Applying Polarity Management to I want it all ‐ gimme the B‐BBEE Supply Chains ‐ Brian Atwater PhD, Scorecard training points
CPIM, Jonah, Professor of Charles Dey, Consultant – Operations Management and Paul Occupationally Directed Pittman CFPIM, CSCP, APICS Master Education Training & Instructor, Jonah, PhD, Professor of Development Operations Management, Indiana Tholsia Naidoo ‐ Managing University Southeast, USA
Director, Institute for Quality
Dave Walls ‐ Broad‐Based Black Economic Empowerment Skills Development Specialist
The Chefs of Training Strategy The Real World Lessons that they do not teach you at Business School ‐ Keith Launchbury CFPIM, CIRM, CSCP, 09:30 ‐ 10:20 President of Keith Launchbury & Associates, USA
Returnable transit packaging – A European view on the challenges and benefits for FMCG
Joe Kelly, General Manager at K‐
Hartwell, Finland Forecasting lessons from FMCG What it takes to keep on aisles ‐ Thinus Hermann Winning / Working together to Managing Director at Barnton, RSA win the next race ‐ Mark Whitehead Senior Manager Distribution and Logistics at Nike Africa, RSA
Eland
Leopard
Modern Ports & Global Meet the International Supply Chain Optimization ‐ Speaker ‐ Gary Hartley
Obiora Madu Chief Executive Officer, Programme Director at Multimix Academy, Nigeria ‐ NB this is a 30 minute presentation
10:20 ‐ 10:50 Morning tea & coffee service in the Exhibition area in the Superbowl
The Evolution of Integrated The Pulse of Public Healthcare Supply Chains into Global Supply Chain in Africa: Changing the Operating Models ‐ Brad paradigm of decision making in the Householder, Principal, Advisory Public Health Supply Chain – A Case Operations Practice, PwC, USA Study
10:50 ‐ 11:40
Philip Lule, Principal MIS Advisor, John Snow Incorporated, RSA and Trevor Lambiotte, Business Unit Manager at Resolve Solution Partners, RSA Ending Childhood Hunger, What The Journey to Central We Can Do and How We Can Do Distribution – A case study on It!
Shoprite ‐ The Last 20 years
Gary Benatar, Managing Director, Claire Bloom CIRM, Executive Industrial Logistics Systems and Director of End 68 Hours of One Touch Retail Solutions BSc End, Hunger, USA
GDE (WITS), PCMH (USA) RSA
Lynx
Worskhop 13 ‐ Creating Alignment in Supply Chain Management
Hans Kremer CPIM, CIRM, CSCP Partner, Fresh Connection, Netherlands ‐ finishes at 12:20 ‐
Meet the international Data Visualization – Speaker ‐ Derinda Ehrlich
Monitoring Your Supply Chain's Pulse ‐ Hannari van Gend, Inventory Optimization Systems Manager at UTi, RSA‐NB this is a 30 minute presentation
Eagle
Worskhop 14 ‐ Run a Simulation of a Supply Chain Planning System Using DDMRP
Kien Leong CDDP, CPIM, Production Scheduling.com
finishes at 12:20 Supply Chain Transformation – Improving production and supply A Mahindra S.A. Case Study ‐ chain performance: case studies Keith Horn, Business from EY/P&G and client Development Executive at Savino partnerships Richard Goussard 11:50 ‐ 12:20
Del Bene, RSA and Niël Cronje, Operations Excellence Leader at EY, Managing Director at Insync RSA
Solutions, RSA
Reducing the cost to serve through strategic supply chain modelling: An African perspective ‐ Kirk Nash, Supply Chain Manager at Aspen Pharmacare, RSA
Meet the international Public / Private Partnerships – Food Waste in Africa ‐ Speaker ‐ Joyce Lewis
Providing a Lifeline for Learners ‐ Hermann Haupt, Senior Director : Country GM, Sub‐
A Case Study
Sahara Africa, CHEP, South Gill Jones Director Client Africa Solutions, UTi, RSA
Ensure you attend lunch as prizes will be drawn and you will have the final chance to enter the competitions which will be drawn at the close of the exhibition later in the afternoon. Enjoy another lunch but for those of you staying on for the gala dinner, 12:20 ‐ 13:30 please be sure not to eat too much as a delicious meal awaits you later this evening!
13:30 ‐ 14:20
Talent Management: Establishing a Pipeline of SCM Professionals
Brian J. Gibson, Ph.D., Wilson Family Professor of Supply Chain Management, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama USA
Panel Session ‐Women in Supply Chain Management around the world facilitated by Joyce Lewis MAEd, CPIM, CSCP, CPM, President at APICS Los Angeles Chapter, USA
Nicholas Serra ‐ To be the Best Me I Can Be
14:30 ‐ 15:20
15:20 ‐ 15:40
Round Table Discussion: Meet the international Best Practices in Supply speaker ‐ Joe Kelly
Chain Management Education ‐ An Information Exchange for Educators ‐ Joe Walden CFPIM, Senior Lecturer, University of Kansas, USA
Meet the international The Relevance of the Supply Chain Operations speaker ‐ Keith Launchbury
Reference Model (SCOR TM ) in South Africa ‐ Jolanda Pretorius CSCP, SCOR‐P, APICS Accredited SCOR Instructor, South Africa
Workshop 12 ‐ How to Implement Executive Sales and Operations Planning ‐ Joe Shedlawski CPIM, S&OP Coach at R.A. Stahl Comany, USA ‐concludes at 17:30 Workshop 16 ‐Managing Supply Chain Risk by Becoming Demand Driven
Chad Smith CDDP, Partner at Demand Driven Institute, USA ‐ Finishes at 17:30 ‐ NB ‐ this workshop is also the the start of a 2 day option that forms the Certified Demand Driven Workshop taking place 2 days after conference ‐ (additional registration fees apply for these additional 2 days following this workshop. There is no additional charge to attend on this day) ‐ for details please contact tonya@upavon.co.za ‐ workshop concludes at 17:30
Summary & Official Close of the formal conference proceedings by the SAPICS President, Cobus Rossouw PrEng, CSCP
Prize Giving and close of the exhibition at SAPICS 2015 ‐ You have to be IN IT TO WIN IT!! Make sure you are in the Superbowl for the exciting prize draws to win the prizes generously on offer by the exhibitors! This final exciting chance to visit the exhibition stands you haven't had the chance to see, meet the people you haven't had the time to meet and possibly win a prize! Surely an opportunity too good to miss?
Time to Enjoy Yourself!! Pre Dinner drinks will be served in the Pilanesberg Room before the Gala dinner begins! SAPICS invites you to enjoy and evening of good food, entertainment and fabulous music. This is a perfect way to end SAPICS 2015 and we are 19:00 ‐ 00:00
confident you will agree!
15:40 ‐ 16:30