agenda
| Day One Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | |
| 7:15 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 | Opening Remarks from the Chair |
| 8:15 | Measuring Supply Chain Efficiency to Accurately Quantify Cost Savings and Improvement Learn how Alaska Airlines is measuring its supply chain success to drive continual process improvement and achieve annual cost savings in excess of $15 million.
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| 9:00 | Proven Success Strategies for Striking a Win-Win Balance Between Customers and Suppliers During Periods of Economic Hardship Cessna Aircraft Company continues to set new standards of excellence in establishing winning relationships with suppliers.
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| 9:45 | Networking Refreshment Break |
| 10:15 | Best Practices in Supplier Relationship Management Supplier relationship management (SRM) becomes strategic to an enterprise's continued success as it outsources more of its final product inputs and product support. This presentation will summarize best practices in SRM and an evolutionary process for continually reducing total costs and improving supplier performance. Key takeaways include:
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| 11:00 | Cutting Outsourcing Costs through Fee Per Flight Hour Contracting JetBlue Airways has cut its outsourcing costs dramatically by implementing an innovative and highly cost-effective engine maintenance contracting strategy that has yielded dividends for both the airline and the engine maintenance MRO. Learn how JetBlue gets a steady and predictable monthly bill for its flight hours sheds the hassle and administrative cost of repair orders, plus all the steps in the invoice process and warranty administration.
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| 1145 | Utilizing RFID to Tracks Parts, Reduce Inventory and Enhance Operational Efficiency for Aerospace Find out how Boeing is pioneering new RFID applications to enhance operational efficiency and reduce costs. Takeaways include:
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| 12:30 | Networking Luncheon |
| 1:30 | Leveraging RFID for Parts Tracking in Real Time at Kennedy Space Center Boeing is using a real-time location system (RTLS) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) to reduce man-hours spent inventorying tools, and ensure that none are left at the launch pad. This session will highlight the tangible and intangibles benefits and cost-savings that have been achieved through RFID utilization.
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| 2:15 | Creating Near Seamless Alignment between Supply Chain and Maintenance This session will highlight the proven success strategies that Continental Airline’s has leveraged to effectively streamline the efficiency of the airline’s MRO functions and supply chain operations.
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| 3:00 | Networking Refreshment Break |
| 3:30 | Securing the Supply Chain: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You Unchecked, a smuggled weapon of terror could trigger an economic catastrophe as devastating as any natural disaster. U.S. businesses could lose $60 billion from a single incident, according to government estimates. During this session, learn how Boeing is safeguarding its supply chain and making the continued business case for continued investment in supply chain security and protection.
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| 4:15 | Leveraging Common Raw Materials Across an OEM Supply Chain in order to Reduce Costs and Enhance Service Outsourcing of finished parts has been a highly successful strategy to reduce cost associated of new or “non-core” parts and assemblies. However, an unintended and costly outcome of outsourcing can be the loss of control over 30-60% of the cost of those finished parts, namely the raw materials that go into them. This presentation and discussion will focus on how several of North America’s largest airframe and turbine engine manufacturers and their sub-tier suppliers are tackling this problem and tapping into one of the most frequently overlooked and greatly underestimated frontiers for supply chain cost reduction and performance enhancement. Key Learning Points:
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| 5:00 | Evaluating PBL Economic Models This session will present an in-depth look at the applicability and value of PBL economic models and how they impact customer affordability and manufacturer profitability. The session will feature a comparative case study showcasing NATO AWACs, Eurofighter or Mig 29 and show the current strategy and then what the impact might be if that strategy were shifted to a PBL strategy.
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| 5:45 | Close of Day One – Networking Reception |
| Day Two Thursday, October 22, 2009 | |
| 7:30 | Networking Refreshments |
| 8:00 | Remarks from the Chair |
| 8:05 | Cisco’s Holistic Approach to Supply Chain Risk Management Leveraged as an Enterprise Best Practice Today’s aviation industry has some unique supply chain risk management needs, like supplier relationship management and the ability to quantify cost reduction. Universal supply chain issues also still apply, and we also need to mitigate risk for natural disasters, political upheavals, regulatory compliance mandates, increasing economic uncertainty, rapid changes in technology, demanding customer expectations, capacity constraints and the effects of globalization. In this session, Cisco Supply Chain executive John O’Connor will explain Cisco’s approach to Supply Chain Risk Management. The session will include an overview and discussion on Cisco’s preparedness, mitigation and resiliency programs, to include:
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| 8:50 | Emerging Best Practice for Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) After recent, major supply chain disruptions such as the 9/11 terrorists attacks, the West Coast Port Shutdown, Hurricanes Katrina and Ike, many leading enterprises have realized they need business continuity plans to include supply chain risk management plans. These enterprises had been busy adopting and reaping the benefits of leading best practices such as lean, strategic sourcing, outsourcing, and off-shoring which reduced some supply chain risks, increased others, and often made supply chain more brittle. They are now focused on identifying ways to better identify, quantify, monitor, and manage prospective supply chain disruptions to avoid, reduce, or mitigate their adverse consequences. This presentation will discuss the increasing importance of SCRM, summarize current best practices, outline a composite supply chain risk management process, and identify prospective sources of supply chain risks. Emerging supply chain risk management best practices include:
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| 9:35 | Networking Refreshment Break |
| 10:00 | Supply Chain Security Updates from the TSA Learn how the TSA is working actively with air carriers to safeguard supply chain shipments.
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| 10:45 | Protecting Your Supply Chain from Counterfeit Parts Are you 100% sure that the new parts your purchasing are actually brand new? During this session we will take a close look at the increasing threat posed by counterfeit parts and what both suppliers and manufacturers can do to protect their respective product lines and supply chains. The session will additionally highlight strategies that can be leveraged to effectively identify counterfeit parts.
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| 11:30 | Selecting Innovative Supplier Partners Using a 5-Step Project Management Approach Now more than ever, supplier selection must produce stellar results as companies push greater responsibility upstream to their supplier partners. The already increasing emphasis on this has been amplified by the current environment, in which corporations need to establish strategic partnerships to advance the performance of their operations. This presentation describes a results-oriented selection approach for identifying suppliers who can support your strategic goals. This approach applies key attributes of the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) project methodology to the selection tasks. Attendees will:
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| 12:15 | Greening the Aviation Supply Chain In the aerospace industry, the key to managing environmental impacts lies in the supply chain — from the materials selected in design to the processes that produce, deliver, and maintain aircraft and their components. This session presents an approach for implementing a green supply chain management program by leveraging the SCOR framework to structure and prioritize your strategy and initiatives. This is a metrics driven approach that focuses management energy on the root causes of environmental impacts. The result is a greener supply chain, which leads to improved performance and reduced costs. Practical examples of supply chain greening from the aerospace and defence industry will be included throughout the discussion. Environmental management is a concern across the industry and its customer base. By understanding how to manage and reduce the impacts of your supply chain, you can be better prepared to meet corporate, customer, and regulatory requirements. Learning points include:
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| 1:00 | Conclusion of Forum |
