Conference Day Two: Tuesday 27th January 2009

09:00 Opening Remarks From Chairman

09:10 An Interconnected World Needs Interconnected Logistics

• Financial, environmental, social, criminal and market interdependencies will force governments into increasing cooperation to respond to emerging events
• Logisticians and logistics-based companies will need to prepare themselves to work with new, non-traditional partners and allies
• These partnerships and alliances will be of varying length depending upon the event that triggers them
• The aspects of what will enable nations, NGOs and companies to be prepared to work in both ad hoc, limited duration as well as sustained, long-term arrangements

Colonel F.M. Boomer
Chief Operational Support Transformation
Canadian Operational Support Command (CANOSCOM)

09:50 Camp Power: Benefits Of Central Plant Vs. Localised Small Generators

• Saving costs through planning
• Reduced logistics support requirement
• True cost evaluation of providing power

Tom Caldwell
Vice President
Aggreko International Power Projects

11:00 Empowering Logistics Transformation Through ERP

• Addressing the demand across Aerospace and Defence for transformational change in operational and business processes due to the drive of “more for less”
• Assessing the demand for increasing agility to adapt and engage deep collaboration across dynamic networks of suppliers, partners and end users
• Maintaining information visibility as an imperative
• Implemnting coherent integrated information system solutions as a crucial transformation enabler, requiring ERP applications that combine flexibility of SOA with deep defence domain insight

Graham Grose
Global Aerospace and Defence Industry Director
IFS Defence

11:40 System Transformations And Capability Development For Humanitarian Logistics

• Mitigation and preparedness: assessing the risk factors and vulnerabilities, pre-planning infrastructure needs, capacity building, prepositioning resources, building human resource capacity in humanitarian logisticians
• Response: relief operations - building the supply chain for medics, food, shelter, mobilization and procurement, logistics stages - long haul and delivering the last mile
• Recovery: debris cleaning and infrastructure rebuilding

Professor Özlem Ergun
Director
Center for Humanitarian Logistics
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Tech US

13:30 Transformation In Humanitarian Logistics And Civil-Military Cooperation In The Middle East

• Harmonising defence logistics and humanitarian logistics
• Civil military cooperation: Interaction between humanitarian and military actors in conflict situations
• Utilising military resources during emergency operations: recent lessons
• Commercialising logistics

Amer Daoudi
Head of Logistics
World Food Programme, UN

14:10 Panel Discussion: Enabling Technology For Precision Logistics Operations

• How companies are using advanced technology for Palnning, Scheduling and Distributing materials in support of Logistics Operations
• Using AIT technologies for improved visibility and tracking of material movement
• Collaborative Planning across the Extended Enterprise

Panel Moderator:

Jeffrey Holmes
Director
PRTM Management Consultants

14:50 Expeditionary Logistics For An Expeditionary Era

• The problems that expeditionary operations create for military logistics
• Some examples of challenges faced
• How to control the problems
• Do these issues manifest themselves in peace and at home?

Brigadier (R’td) Charlie Hobson
Former Director of Equipment Capability for Expeditionary Logistics and Support Operations
Ministry of Defence UK

15:10 End Of Conference

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