Kinexions Conference Speakers
Barnes & Noble
Deploying Kinaxis RapidResponse to point of sale
Barnes & Noble, the world's largest bookseller, is currently in the process of deploying Kinaxis RapidResponse across the supply chain for the company's NOOK® eBook Reader and digital product line. Barnes & Noble is the first national retailer to deploy the solution deep into point of sale locations within its own channel as well as its channel partners. The goal is to instantly gather the demand at point of sale and more rapidly steer the supply chain for optimum availability. In this presentation, B&N will share the highlights and challenges from the design and deployment of Kinaxis into point of sale.
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Matt Red vice president, supply & demand planning, Barnes & Noble.com bio |
Celestica
Celestica's transformation to achieving bottom-line operational results through the design and implementation of a Supply Chain Collaboration Center
Celestica delivers innovative supply chain solutions to OEMs in a variety of sectors including consumer, enterprise, industrial and healthcare. An element of its transformation is leveraging its expertise in supply chain management and information technology to build a Supply Chain Collaboration Center that drives improvements for customers in fulfillment performance, cycle time, inventory turns and supply chain management costs. Celestica is extending its Supply Chain Collaboration Center to help its customers anticipate and prepare for unexpected changes in an extremely cost-competitive and volatile demand environment.
This presentation will highlight Celestica's business transformation journey and how the core supply chain technology suite is providing exceptional capabilities in demand and inventory planning, supply-demand balancing, and sourcing and supplier collaboration. Erwin will also describe how Kinaxis RapidResponse underpins the flexible and scalable infrastructure that enables Celestica to offer the Supply Chain Collaboration Center as a service to drive its customers' success.
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Erwin Hermans vice president, supply chain solutions bio |
D&M Holdings Inc.
Using RapidResponse to streamline global S&OP in a multi-company, diverse and complex global business model
Lalit Panda, CIO at D&M, will speak about the distinct challenges of implementing a consistent global S&OP process, supported with RapidResponse, across a global spread of companies with different business models and unique set of processes. He will outline the complex challenges of managing a diverse set of businesses brought together through mergers and acquisitions, and of defining common processes in an environment that was run independently worldwide. Starting with the design and selection process, he will lay out the current state, share lessons learned in the implementation of Phase One, and outline D&M's vision in integrating the supply chain planning process from end-to-end to drive productivity, value and customer service.
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Lalit Panda chief information officer bio |
Gartner Supply Chain Research
Orchestrating demand driven value networks with cloud supply chain solutions
As supply chains evolve to demand driven value networks, the need to connect and collaborate with external partners such as contract manufacturers and logistics service providers increases. Planning, monitoring and responding to changes across a globally distributed network of owned and outsourced operations requires business practices and technology solutions that are different from systems such as ERP applications that were designed to manage the supply chain functions contained within boundaries of an enterprise. Join this session and hear Gartner insights on how cloud supply chain solutions support critical supply chain processes such as S&OP as companies progress on the journey to become more demand driven.
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Michael Dominy research director bio |
Jabil
Managing risk in supply chain: Responding to the opportunity
Today's supply chains are becoming increasingly complex with increased dependencies across the globe, accelerated life-cycle compression, more volatile demand patterns, and persistent cost pressures. These complexities allow only the most critical nodes to be tightly managed and leave significant portions of the supply chain exposed. One only needs to look to the Japan crisis as a glaring example. Learn how Jabil leverages RapidResponse to identify and map critical supply chain characteristics by end product to produce optimal results.
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Joe McBeth vice president, global supply chain bio |
Kevin O'Marah Research
Kevin O'Marah… UNCENSORED
Kevin O'Marah, most recently of Gartner (AMR) will share his perspectives on technology, the human brain, and supply chain for winners in this not to miss keynote address.
A day late and a dollar short — this is how one leading executive described the technology of ERP as part of today's global supply chain. New data shows that cost control, while still a fundamental for supply chain strategists, is steadily losing ground to higher level business imperatives like speed, agility and responsiveness. It is also clear that supply chain talent gaps increasingly separate winners from losers across industries. Is it possible that billions spent on ERP backbones offer little more than data and transaction automation while newer technologies race ahead by tapping human intelligence organically? It is not only possible, it is happening and supply chain strategists who can attract talent and leverage it with the right technologies are winning because of it.
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Kevin O'Marah bio |
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Managing the supply chain challenge at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics with RapidResponse
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics is moving into the 21st century and meeting the objectives of service commonality and improved affordability in a low-risk fighter aircraft design. The United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, along with nine international partners, make the F35 supply chain truly global. The ability to forecast and manage inventory is a top priority in meeting demand schedules and affordability goals. After selecting Kinaxis' RapidResponse to aid with production shortages, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics looks forward to better managing fluctuations in the supply base by leveraging the tool's inherent ability to execute demand and supply simulations.
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Mike Keltz IT integrator, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Supply Chain bio |
Varian Semiconductor
Merging of planning and execution: How Varian Semiconductor uses RapidResponse to manage liability agreements at more than 40 supplier sites
RapidResponse was initially brought in to Varian Semiconductor for just one task — managing ECO Phase in/Phase out — and it paid for itself in less than two years on those savings alone. Now seven years later, RapidResponse has become an indispensable tool that supports more than 20 processes for seven functional groups across the company. RapidResponse's speed allows the company to do in minutes what it would take hours to do without the tool, and its flexibility enables some processes that wouldn't even be feasible to run without it. One such process is in the area of managing supplier liability. Since it is not feasible to set up over 40 suppliers in a "glass pipeline" view, Varian uses RapidResponse's advance alert capabilities to gather the data they needed to monitor these agreements.
Come and see a live demonstration of how Varian uses RapidResponse to:
- Provide a dashboard view of the status of parts that are on liability agreements.
- Perform simulations that include liability data when they need to add demand inside of lead time.
- Predict burn off of parts for the quarterly inventory obsolescence review or when the level changes.
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Thomas LeBlanc master scheduler bio |
Panel Discussion
Influencers panel; An analyst, an editor and a consultant walk into a room…
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Andy Coldrick partner , Ling-Coldrick bio |
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Russell Goodman editor in chief , SupplyChainBrain bio |
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Predrag (PJ) Jakovljevic principal analyst , TEC bio |
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Bob Ferrari executive editor, Supply Chain Matters blog |
Kinaxis General Sessions
And now for something completely different
This is the RapidResponse product roadmap session — given in a manner that is different from the typical software roadmap. In this session you will get:
- A sneak peek at the next game-changing release of RapidResponse.
- Demos of "in the labs" capabilities which will be generally available in the near future.
- A view into a journey that we will be taking together over the next five years, which will change the very foundation of management systems.
Speaker:
Kirk Munroe
vice president, marketing bio
Kinaxis Business Solution Sessions
Demand forecasting and order management
Demand forecasting is a lot more than just statistical analysis of product demands. Understanding how demand from different products needs to be managed, where value gets added, and how to develop the overall process are key to getting the most out of your efforts. Also, forecasting and order management processes need to be aligned in order to ensure that they mutually support the goals of the business. Attend this session to learn more about how RapidResponse can support your demand forecasting and order management initiatives.
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Bob May
senior product manager bio
Executive S&OP
Today's executive wants answers fast and needs enough detail to make the right decision. RapidResponse has always provided lightning fast ERP analytics that have allowed companies to evaluate changes and try different solutions. Recently added demand planning capabilities have brought all of the data needed for S&OP into RapidResponse allowing customers to drive their S&OP processes.
Join me where we will show how RapidResponse can be used to present the preferred S&OP plan and alternatives to the executive S&OP team, review assumptions, and monitor progress against the monthly S&OP plan.
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John Westerveld
demo architect bio
Operational S&OP
For many companies, the demand planning and supply planning process is disconnected. When evaluating different options in the demand plan, the demand planner has no idea if a particular option is doable until it's passed off to the supply planning team. RapidResponse's S&OP capabilities offer a better way.
With this workshop, we'll investigate some of the new S&OP demand and supply balancing capabilities introduced in RapidResponse 10.1. Join us to get some ideas on how to streamline your S&OP process, while improving the overall accuracy of your S&OP plan.
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John Westerveld
demo architect bio
RapidResponse and supplier collaboration – treating suppliers as an extension of your organization
The increasing number of tiers in the supply chain also increases the dependency on remote suppliers for your operations performance results. To be truly effective, supplier collaboration needs to go far beyond the tactical exchange of data. Key suppliers must be brought into the decision-making process, so that manufacturers and brand owners can exchange early warnings and collaboratively resolve supply chain risk issues.
This session will show you the specific features and functions within RapidResponse that are key to building an efficient and effective process for working with your extended supply chain.
Speaker:
Kerry Zuber
vice president, business consulting bio
Take it to wherever you want to go: Non supply chain uses for RapidResponse
Extending RapidResponse to other functions adjacent to the supply chain is relatively easy. More important, these extensions do not need to be re-implemented with each new release of RapidResponse. In this session we will discuss some extensions that have been created by customers, as well as new non-supply chain extensions planned for future releases of RapidResponse, including Project Management and Strategic Workforce Management.
Speaker:
Trevor Miles
director, thought leadership bio
Kinaxis Technical Sessions
Automation, scripting, web services, and net change import
Business process automation is essential to implement effective business processes that identify exceptions to be escalated, while automating the tasks that do not require manual intervention. The introduction of Scripts in version 10.1 takes this to the next level, giving resource authors powerful tools to express business rules, and schedule a script or attach it to an event such as scenario change or workbook save. In addition to scripting overview, this session will provide an example of how to replace chained alerts with a script.
Another important ingredient to effective decision making in RapidResponse is near-real-time connectivity with other systems. This ensures that decisions are based on up-to-date information and that they are communicated quickly and automatically to ERP, or other corporate systems. Version 10.1 provides a complete set of S&OP web services that enable system-to-system net change, business process automation, and portal integration.
The session will give a glimpse into new scripting capabilities, and REST web services coming in version 11.0.
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Paul Rachniowski
research and development director bio
Beyond planning — Moving to full closed-loop execution
The pace of business is ever increasing and so is the volume and volatility of data that supports the decision-making process. Many Kinaxis customers have implemented closed-loop solutions using partial data updates and alerts, and with the release of RapidResponse 10.1, new tools have been added that are aimed at making it easier to close the loop to ERP. This session will provide an overview of net-change interfaces, data update enhancements, web services, as well as examples of how to use them.
Speakers:
Paul Rachniowski
research and development director bioKris Reid
director of deployment services bio
High impact dashboards and data visualization
A picture is worth a thousand clicks – with new visualizations like dashboards and treemaps, RapidResponse users can obtain more information than before. Configurable dashboards allow authors to convert existing worksheets into widgets, which allows for multiple important reports to be displayed at once. Treemap charts help highlight problem areas and outliers in large data sets that might otherwise be difficult to detect.
This session will explain how each of these new resources work, how you use them, and more important, how you author them and link them to unite different resources into a natural drill-down capability for users to perform impact analysis and resolution.
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Bob May
senior product manager bioCraig West
manager of predefined resources and demo development bio
Letting the outsiders in! Enabling controlled access to RapidResponse by external stakeholders
You are probably using email today to get mission critical information from your partners, so why not leverage native capabilities and immediate visibility in RapidResponse instead? Ultimately, the closer the organizations are, the more effective you will be. But it can't be a free for all. Join this session to learn the options and the procedures for secure, controlled, and easy access to RapidResponse by external stakeholders. This presentation will cover:
- The various ways user groups can be created with strict access control and defined usage control parameters
- How to manage exceptions
- Simplifying the user interface to ensure little to no training is required
- Ways workbooks/worksheets can be created for controlled views protected from editing
Speaker:
Chuck Thomas
director, professional services bio
Managing and utilizing historical data within RapidResponse
Always thought that RapidResponse is great for forward looking simulation and projections but that it isn't suited for historical or past performance data? Well… hopefully we can change that perception after attending this workshop!
During this workshop we'll explore the following topics:
- Examine the reasons "why" you would want historical data in RapidResponse.
- Review the various methods that can be utilized to capture historical data within RapidResponse.
- Understand sizing and ongoing management considerations when using historical data.
Speaker:
Kris Reid
director of deployment services bio
Need-for-speed performance tuning
RapidResponse has a reputation for providing answers quickly. However, as worksheets get more and more complicated, reporting times can get longer. Learn how to use recent RapidResponse enhancements to improve worksheet performance — sometimes dramatically!
Speaker:
Duncan Klett
vice president, analytics research bio
New analytics for improved supply-demand balancing
RapidResponse continues to evolve better strategies to solve supply-demand balancing problems. This session presents some recent and upcoming analytics that make better use of supplies to improve available dates and on-time quantities. This allows users greater control in allotting supplies to specific demands. Understand the business problems solved by these new analytics and see the improved results they can provide.
Speaker:
Ingrid Bongartz
director, analytics development bio
Planning with expiry
Planning while taking into account product expiration is a great challenge for many companies. Materials that expire can exist at any level of the product structure. When a product expires can be dependent on the expiration of materials that go into it, or it might only be dependent on when the manufacturing of that level of product itself completes. In addition, there may be a requirement from the customer that the product must have a minimum amount of shelf life left at the point in time the customer receives it. How do you take into account these considerations when planning your production? How can you minimize potential scrap due to expiry while satisfying customer requirements? This workshop will describe Rapid Response's capabilities in this area as well as how to set up and use them to improve your planning.
Speaker:
Janice Kakazu
senior consultant bio
