Logistics Management

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• Webcast Series
  June 27, 2007

• Keynote Presentation:
  Global Supply Chains: On the edge of Disaster
  11am Eastern (8 am Pacific)

  U.S. Ports: Preparing for Future Growth
  12 pm Eastern
  (9 am Pacific)

  Minimizing Supply Chain Costs through Protective Packaging Material Selection
  1 pm Eastern
  (10 am Pacific)

  China Logistics 101: Tales from the Trenches
  2 pm Eastern
  (11 am Pacific)

  China Infrastructure and Beyond
  3 pm Eastern
  (12 pm Pacific)

Session Information

Our online conference, comprised of a series of educational webcasts, attracts logistics and supply chain managers who need to meet the challenges and take advantage of doing business in China . . . successfully!

Sessions include:
• Global Supply Chains: On the Edge of Disaster
• U.S. Ports: Preparing for Future Growth
• Minimizing Supply Chain Costs through Protective Packaging Material Selection
  
• China Logistics 101: Tales from the Trenches
• China Infrastructure and Beyond
  
  

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Global Supply Chains—On the edge of Disaster

We are honored to present Dr. Stephen Flynn as the keynote speaker for this event.

You may be familiar with Dr. Flynn from his series on NPR's Morning Edition, his appearance on 60 Minutes, his book "America the Vulnerable," his 20 years as an officer in the Coast Guard, and/or his blue-ribbon intelligence connections.

Dr. Flynn's message has forced the shipping community to sit up and listen. He conveys that there is a distinct possibility your supply chain will be the conduit for the next terrorist attack—and you're utterly unprepared to respond.

In his new book, "The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation," he contends that shippers must prepare to respond to acts of terror and to acts of nature. "Resiliency," he says, "must now become our national motto."

Dr. Flynn ranks among the world's most widely cited experts on homeland security issues, including providing congressional testimony on seventeen occasions since 9/11. He spent twenty years as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Coast Guard, retiring at the rank of Commander. During his time on active duty he had two commands at sea, served in the White House Military Office during the George H.W. Bush administration, and was director for Global Issues on the National Security Council staff during the Clinton administration.

Attend this webcast to hear Dr. Flynn share his blueprint for a layered, global security system that all shippers can help to create.

Dr. Stephen Flynn's accomplishments include a Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Consulting Professor at the Center of International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, Ph.D. and M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, B.S. from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.

U.S. Ports: Preparing for Future Growth

For many U.S. ports on the East Coast, China has become their major trading partner—and no one anticipates that will change any time soon. Add to the mix the fact that many U.S. shippers are shifting traffic originating in Southeast Asia and India from the trans-Pacific to the Suez Canal route, hitting East Coast ports with new container volume. Whichever route shippers choose, the question remains: How will U.S. ports handle burgeoning cargo volumes?

In this session, Peter Zantal and James Devine will first bring global shippers up to date on the development projects that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and its private terminal operators are undertaking to prepare for future traffic growth, and then deliver a “call to action� to shippers to become more involved to make sure the global supply chain infrastructure continues to evolve at the same pace as global trade.

Presenters:
Peter Zantal, General Manager, Analysis and Industry Relations, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

James J. Devine, President and CEO of New York Container Terminal

Minimizing Supply Chain Costs through Protective Packaging Material Selection

In today’s global shipping environment, freight, warehousing and breakage represent some of the largest costs for damage-sensitive goods. Freight and warehousing rates can be negotiated to a small degree, but cannot improve the margin substantially. Packaging material is an important way to reduce costs in all of these areas, and others, to gain margin improvement.

Using a more resilient foam protective packaging material can result in smaller box sizes with better protection than traditional foam protective packaging enabling brand owners to fit up to 40% more units in a shipping container. When combined with the more economical use of warehouse space, this change has the potential to save millions of dollars. Better packaging material also reduces costly returns and improves brand loyalty.

Presenter: Tim Wong, Ph.D., General Manager, Asia Pacific, ARCEL Advanced Foam Resin, NOVA Chemicals, Inc.

China Logistics 101: Tales from the Trenches

Thinking about stretching your supply chain into China? Need support for an established logistics and supply network? The Nicobar Group aims to answer your questions about China logistics by discussing the following topics:

• transportation infrastructure in China
• hot service trends
• approaches to managing 3PL in China
• mini-case studies

This session marks the official launch of the team's China Logistics Blog.

Presenters: Nicobar Group
Barrett Comiskey, Managing Partner
Shanghai Andy Mulkerin, Managing Partner, New York

China Infrastructure and Beyond

China's ambitious plans to raise the living standards of the country's rural interior have set off a boom in transport infrastructure development and a rush to upgrade its logistics industry—and a number of international companies are already taking advantage of the changes.

This session will walk shippers through how China is working to open its interior with aggressive infrastructure planning and investment and then chart the progress global logistics service providers are making in establishing services for the world's manufacturing pioneers that are "going west."

Presenters: Accenture
Jamie Bolton, Supply Chain Management
Andrew Sleigh, Corporate and Policy Affairs