This annual Supply Chain Conference hosts supply chain experts from the Metals Industry all under one roof. The event is planned in connection with JDA FocusConnect , the premier EMEA Supply Chain event that takes place from 25-27 of October in the same venue. So, book your place now!

Network with Supply Chain Experts in Metal Industry 

Metals Day is an excellent opportunity to learn about how to gain competitive advantage form your supply chain where delegates from across the world will join this network of supply chain professionals and gather information on industry trends, leading practices and innovations.

Learn about Best Practices

The event will provide you with a unique opportunity to hear presentations from leading metals companies TATA STEEL, JFE STEEL, TIMKEN and TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY sharing the experience on how they have excelled by improving their supply chains. In addition, there are a number of industry relevant breakout sessions that address various supply chain challenges such as Production Planning & Scheduling, Integrated Business Planning and Closed Loop Master & Factory Planning.

Agenda

Monday 24 October- Networking Day

Tuesday 25 October – Full Day Conference

09:00	Driving your Delivery Performance and Operational Excellence - LOGIS & JDA Michael Hilbrich, Vice President, Metals, LOGIS Kelly Thomas, Senior Vice President, Manufacturing, JDA
10:00	Creating Supply Chain Excellence Model for Distribution & Retail: The Tata Steel Way Dipankar Dasgupta, Head P&S, FP Planning Head, Tata Steel This presentation attempts to elaborate on the journey of supply chain redesign using the existing i2 platform, integrating it with other IT platforms that extend up to the distributors, generation of unified priority system across all resources in the supply side and "regulating the release" mechanisms to successfully achieve the objectives of both MTA and MTO environments.
10:45	Coffee Break
11:00	Production Planning at TZ: Uncompromising Performance Bogdan Konderla, Chief Planner, TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY (Czech Republic) Accepting the strategy of Trinecke Zelezarny to achieve major increase in production of SBQ steel brought significant increase in requirements on production organization, as well as Customer Delivery Performance. The Order Fulfillment process efficiency had to be increased the advanced planning technologies (APS) played their role at this point. Today, the values of Customer Delivery Performance achieved in TZ are on level most steel producers can only dream of. Hear how the improvement trip of TZ looked like how mission impossible in this company turned to mission possible.
11:45	New Generation Planning Project at TIMKEN William P. Bryan, VP, Supply Chain and Supply Chain Economics – Steel, The Timken Company (USA) The Timken Company (OH, USA) became a pioneer of so-called Advanced Planning (APS) in the early nineties by implementing i2 Factory Planner as the very first customer of now legendary i2 Technologies. It was Timken, where the installation of i2 Factory Planner, probably historically the most famous i2 product, was carried out. Now, after twenty years of experience from the world of advanced planning, Timken decided to significantly improve its Production Planning system. Hear what led it to this decision and what is observed by the project labeled at Timken as „New Generation Planning“.
12:30	Lunch
	Breakout Sessions
	Track A (introduced by LOGIS)	Track B (introduced by JDA)
14:00	New Generation Production Planning and Scheduling Solution overview, including live demos Topics discussed: Capacity and Material Planning, Campaign Planning, Material Allocations	Integrated Business Planning Discuss how Integrated Business Planning approach can enable organizations to proactively detect and appropriately respond to the changing business dynamics. Discuss key concepts and building blocks of Integrated Business Planning Share best practices to transition traditional S&OP into a rolling business management process Share customer success stories from the metals sector Showcase JDA capabilities for process orchestration, supply chain visibility, what-if scenario analysis, etc.
15:30	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
16:00	Production Planning Leaders Roundtable Discuss the challenges of Metals production and inspire from the leaders of the industry, that benefit from APS / SCM technologies.	Closed Loop Master & Factory Planning Topics discussed: Demand Management, Supply Chain Planning, Sales Allocation Planning
16:45		JFE STEEL Corporation Introduction of "JFE-Flessa", SCM re-engineering project by JFE Steel. Mr. Akira Nitta, General Manager Sales/SCM Group, IT Innovation Leading Dept. Mr. Yoshitake Kohiro, Chief, Process Dept, East Japan Work The First stage was to implement the concept of S&OM, which successfully went live in November 2009, realizing great benefits. The second stage was to implement Corporate FP and link it with Factory Scheduler, improving the response to changing environments."
17:30	Cocktail Reception

Venue and Room Block for the Metals Day

We've secured a limited number of rooms at the Sofitel at the rate of £159 plus VAT @ 20% per night (including breakfast). To take advantage of this rate and availability, you can call the Sofitel on +44 (0)208 757 5000 or email h6214-re@sofitel.com and quote JDAC231011 by 27 September 2011.

Networking Day

Take advantage of the complimentary Networking Day in London on 24th of October which consists of a tour around the city and an excellent opportunity to network with other metals industry professionals.

Opt to attend the Networking Day during the registration process.

Contact

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact Maryam Zarif at JDA Software (maryam.zarif@jda.com) or Ondrej Konvicka at LOGIS (ondrej.konvicka@logis.cz).